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Line of Oblivion

For viola d’amore, clarinets, dance, real time electronic and video
Text and voice of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes (*1928)

Synopsis 1
In the night of the Mexican desert, an old man is abandoned. Sitting in a wheelchair, he is looking into the darkness. Is he forgetting his memories? Is he imagining them or is he dying? He can’t move, he can’t speak, but he can hear and he can remember: try to
remember.
The line described by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is not only a line on the ground, a division between countries. It is a broken line in the memory, an empty space like any frontier, inhabited by the character of this story.

Statement of intent

Carlos Fuentes focuses on the cultural, anthropological and economic realities that this border divides and unites. The tale focuses
on who and what has put Emiliano Barroso, an old paralyzed leftist Mexican man in a wheel chair alone in the desert facing the US Border and left there wondering about the value of his life and of modernity. The question is one asked at many frontiers. The answer is a universal one. A surveillance wall is now always there, no longer a metaphor but a real part of many lifes, a real part of disaster capitalism. As on the shore of the Río Norte, as on the banks of the Río Grande, every movement on our stage is registered, The past is reflected in
the music, the conditional in the movement, their combination is the present. These reverberations, this feedback, these signals create the synchronous reactive changes to better control the future, to create a real time memory A pre-recorded voice narrates the story of Emiliano Barroso – an internal dialogue of a man, alone, abandoned in a wheelchair in the desert the south of the Rio Bravo del Norte. His twitches, brusque fearful movements, memories, visions and histories, each of these themes will be assigned to one of the participants: dancer (memory), actor (fear, emotion), viola and clarinets (history), and
video (visions).
This piece for viola, clarinets, dancer and actor will use sensors to create a reactive environment,.

Direction, scenography, lights: Jim Clayburgh
Choreography: Johanne Saunier
Music: Arturo Fuentes www.arturofuentes.com
Viole d'amour: Garth Knox
Bass clarinets: Dirk Descheemaeker and Benjamin Dieltjens
Dance: Johanne Saunier
Production JOJI INC
Co production : CECN de Mons, Cavaillon, festival Innsbruck (Autriche), festival Cervantino (Mexique)
Met de steun van de Charleroi Danses.