gardening

Concept, choreography, performance: Rita Maria Muñoz Farias 

Artistic Assistance: Nicola Gunn 

Co-producer: Frontlosjefestivalen 

Photographer: Michaela Vyskocil Gettwert 

Video: Daniel Alræk

Supported by: Bergen Kommune, Bergen Dansesenter, Wrap Kunsthus

Thanks to Nitharsana R.; for inspirational conversations and help.

Dedicated to: Magdalena, Panchito and abuelita Rita.

World premiere: Feb 24th, Frontlosjefestivalen at Cornerteateret (Bergen, NO)

Duration: ~60 minutes (and additionally 60-120 minutes without audience)

Review: scenekunst.no

welcome to this world where the undeniable happens; a body tirelessly working to keep its garden alive slowly accepts its end

through dry soil, dying plants, and the unsteady and fading sounds of its world you are brought to see and let go, to deny and accept, together with the performer

hopelessness and hope linger; what life do you see in its wrinkles? 

“gardening” is the merging of the exhausted physical body and earthy materials that, through choreographic methods, create a ritualistic flow of death and life. the movements – unsettling, slow – are inspired by the feeling of glue unsticking from skin, happening as the dry garden disintegrates around the performer

both the body and the materials are symbols of the fragility of life and the constant in all our lives: death. the performance becomes a visual image of the waiting. The denial that comes with hope. The breath. The life that comes after. The circle connecting. 

it is a message of grief and love to a life - long passed