Welcome Act 1 & 2
September 2020
Welcome Act 1 & 1 is an artistic collaboration and performance that was shown as part of the Mørkerommet series in Rosendal Teater. Through the work, interest was placed on the act of welcoming and hospitality. It consisted of a dialogue of performative gestures that resulted in the permutations of the repetitive action of welcoming and being welcomed into a space.
The work explored the basics of building a relationship to a private space, facilitated by a host. These principles are tested through a series of repetitions of gestures of being welsomced to it and making use of it. The gestures take on a semi-spontaneous play of different approaches to humor, seriousness, friendliness, reciprocity, estrangement, among others. The intention of the work was to bring awareness to how we move within and between spaces, and to the different behaviours we can and may carry in them. It seeked to touch upon awareness of patterns of behavior and gestures that incarnate in our daily life and question them.
Performers: Carlos Alberto Correia, Valentina Martínez
Curated by: Agnieszka Foltyn
Production: Rosendal Teater
Work supported by Trondheim Kommune 2020 Strakstiltak kunst og kultur profesjonelle


