Ensayo de duración
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Ensayo de duración
Concept and creation by William Ruiz Morales & Gabriela Burdsall with the collaboration of Kiko Faxas and the performers
Duration: 7 hours
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Havana, July 2017
This Study on Duration is an attempt to create awareness of the time of our conviviality.
With a total duration of seven hours, we are interested in presenting materials that allow us, together with the audience, to experiment with the way we perceive the passage of time. We believe that time is not something that exists outside of ourselves but instead can be transformed by our perception of it.
…the perceptual question of time as problematic and as a provocation, not only encourages us to think about what it means but at what moment we think about it. In this sense, time is thought and suffered by the states it provokes, by the experiences that contains. “Remembering is re-living,” because memories are also the temporary marks of our life: to determine the elapsed time, can define the present of our time and modify it.
Pedro Villareal Sosa for Cachivache Media en español
William Ruiz Morales 