Bojeo
Created and performed by: Gabriela Burdsall & William Ruiz Morale
Duration: 40 min
Bojeo is a series of transdisciplinary explorations of the present. Bojeo (roughly “circumnavigation”) is to establish the perimeter of an island. We are interested in the narrative strategies the action of bojear suggests, always moving around, listening, and observing, rather than occupying. Historically, “bojeos” have been done with the objective of arriving at geographical certainties that can be fixed into a map, frequently to help colonization efforts. Our Bojeo has an opposite objective: it wants to be an opening of the place, a blurring of boundaries, an accumulation of impressions, a proliferation, a decolonization of the performance place. This iteration of Bojeo, titled Seven Seas, takes the hotel room as its primary topos. From there, we weaved an open theatrical fiction. We are exploring the hotel room as a space for the transitory, the hidden, the sensual, the uncanny.
William Ruiz Morales 