Antigones

The Greek myth is rendered in LEIMAY’s performance to illustrate the experience of absence, as with families and friends of los Desaparecidos, the ‘Disappeared Ones’ of Colombia’s political upheavals.  LEIMAY’s collaborators: dancer Ximena Garnica, guest director Juan Merchan, sound artist Roland Toledo and video designer Shige Moriya contribute, to face the conflict between the law and conscience.  Antigone takes a stand, sacrificing her life to be buried alive.

“Antigone is a wandering shadow: like the woman spirit who never received the stiff bodies of her dead. Antigone is without rest, tormented and overshadowed by the vacuum of absence, the presence of those who are no longer there; she is a reproach to society, inciting the State and its cruel laws, and to all those for whom passivity assumes the current arbitrary terror of the war”

Antigones is an act of remembering, gathering force in silence: a body condition, which apprehends all that has perished, multi-faceted and difficult to decipher.

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Show duration
50 minutes

Concept, Creation and Choreography
Juan Merchan and Ximena Garnica

Dance
Ximena Garnica
Direction

Juan Merchan

Live Video Projections
Shige Moriya

Composition and live music
Roland Toledo
Lighting Design
Juan Merchan

Developmental credit
“Antigones” was developed with the support of CAVE Organization. With work in-progress performances at Japan Society.

World Premiere
Joyce SoHo, New York 2008