Bojeo | Seven Seas
Created and performed by Gabriela Burdsall & William Ruiz Morales
Duration: 40 min
Presented at TOGETHER’s inaugural edition, November 29 – December 5, 2021.
This iteration of “Bojeo” 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. Furthermore, in hotel rooms the private and public space are in constant transformation.
Our “Bojeos” are a series of explorations around our ever-transforming circumstances. Bojeo (roughly “circumnavigation”) is to establish the perimeter of an island. We are interested in the narrative strategies the action of bojear suggests, constantly moving around, listening, and observing, rather than occupying. Historically, “bojeos” have been done to arrive at geographical certainties that can be fixed into a map, frequently to help colonization efforts. Our “Bojeo” has an opposite objective: its purpose is to become an opening of the place, a blurring of boundaries, an accumulation of impressions, a proliferation, a decolonization of the performance place.
William Ruiz Morales 