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I WAS TOLD NOT TO MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH TOM CRUISE

work in progress

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I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise; it invites us to observe that which is always outside the field of view yet present in one way or another. Like ghosts to dogs, or the distant barking that always emerges at some point during the day. The starting point is the figure of the extra who always responds to the call to be behind whatever the gaze is fixed on, while still being perceived. And sometimes their name doesn’t even appear in the credits, and they’ve even been forbidden from looking at others, for not being part of the hegemony of the gaze, which most of the time is masculine.

This work is like a rumor about fake trees air fresheners that no longer smell that we no longer even notice. About bodies that move without being seen and about how movement possesses these bodies to make them discreet, almost invisible.

An invitation to a sensitive contemplation of the spectator’s presence and gaze within the theatrical space.

© Andrea Casino

Performance and Creation: Elena Carvajal
Accompaniment: Fran Martínez
Dramaturgy: Carolina Campos
Movement Assistance: Anja Röttgerkamp
Lighting Design: Leticia Skrycky
Sound Design: Adrià Juan
Set Design: Elena Carvajal
Costume Design: María Gutiérrez and Neus Masdeu
Video: Rafael Frazão

Production: Elclimamola, as part of the Booster – Creation Support Program

Co-production: Kunstencentrum BUDA (BE), TNT Festival Terrassa (CAT)

Artistic Residencies: La Poderosa (CAT), La Caldera (CAT), Espai Nyamnyam (CAT)

With the support of: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Ramon Llull, Pla d’impuls a la dansa, La Mutant – Espai d'Arts Vives (ES)

Premiere in 2026 at:
Almost Summer Festival, Kunstencentrum Buda, Kortrijk, and Festival TNT, Terrassa.


 

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© Andrea Casino

Realmente ahora no ya no

© Laura Iturralde

Realmente ahora no ya no explores notions of narrative, invisibility, expectation and how we question the authorship of our own work. 
It is a renegotiation of the desire to narrate and to do so through other voices. The story is constructed from the rewriting of a dialogue about the experience lived after an almost theatrical event/performance of a work that ephemerally exists. 

With the aim of investigating what remains after having attended the first part of Realmente ahora no ya no , which occurs at another time, in another place, and how we narrate the lived experience. Being this past event what marks the construction of the present. 

Far from a stage performance, we witness something that invites us to listen, a sound sequence, a campfire, fragments of a conversation between M, L, N, F, A, L and O.

Written by Elena Carvajal and Fran Martínez

Set Desing Laura Iturralde, Fran Martínez and Elena Carvajal

Ligth desing Laura Iturralde 

Soundscape Laura Llaneli

External eye Carolina Campos 

Graphic design Maïte Álvarez

Printing LIO (la imprenta oberta) a l´espai nyamnyam (Mieres, Girona)​

With the support of Spanish Embassy in Belgium, Bâtard Festival, Wpzimmer, Le Delta, province de Namur, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Centre Culturel Tour à Plomb, NauEstruch, La Poderosa,

Espai nyamnyam, La Caldera
 


 

Procrastinación house

Born as work methodology and practice 

Times New Roman 

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Times new Roman explores the surfacing of the area as a measured momentum, a temporal appearance, stating the conditions of unannounced plays. This could be a ship that one day drifts ashore from the extensive sea, or a hickey that left a symbolic mark on the lover’s skin. What does such ‘temporal’ emergence of an area signify and how do we interact with such a behaviour that acts like a phantom in space?

Written and directed by Elena Carvajal.
In collaboration with Sara Sánchez,
Christina Nickel, Sophie Farza, Gitte
Hendrikx and Filip Jakab

Performed by Sara Sánchez,
Christina Nickel, Sophie Farza, Laurie
Borde and Elena Carvajal.

Set desing by Gitte Hendrikx, Elena Carvajal.
Duration 25’
June 2019 Les Brigittines , Brussels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_zUC3CtgY

WaltDisneyPain

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“The scars usually disappear with time. While they heal, you can use make-up to cover them. There are certain dermatological techniques that help make scars less visible. However, the treatment only improves the appearance of the scar, but does not erase it completely”

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Written and directed by Elena Carvajal in collaboration with Paula Almirón.
Duration 30’
June 2018, Centrale For
Contemporary Art, Festival,Brussels

https://vimeo.com/284929960

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