La veu submergida

The submerged voice is a multidisciplinary piece that puts circus and movement in dialogue with an unusual medium, water. A large aquarium full of water serves as a pretext to talk about silences, barriers and overcoming. It is a path to the depths of the subconscious through the experience of apnea, where sound and light are the protagonists. A piece that investigates body movement in relation to breathing, weight, voice and the element of water.

This proposal revolves around breathing as a basic human experience between the individual and the totality, as a hinge between power and weakness, related to the emission of the voice and, referring rather to its physiological explanation, as a hinge between movement and stillness; “our first and last breath marks the beginning and the end of life. A baby’s first breath, perceived by its cry, contains a symbolic meaning

of joining humanity. It is the breath of life. I am here, he says. Listen to me. Witness my efforts to exist and to communicate.The last breath is raspy, irregular, forced. Or it may be virtually imperceptible. It says: I am abandoning breath, which is abandoning life, and between the first inhalation and the last exhalation the whole of life takes place, continually rising and falling, inhaling the outside and exhaling the unnecessary, taking in and letting go” (Carel 2016:128).

Apnea as a risky practice, the constant relationship with the element of water and the aquatic acro movement inside and outside the aquarium make this show an unconventional circus piece.