Cooperativa Maura Morales – Shame

In the organizer's words:

Who hasn't experienced it: the moment when you wish you could be swallowed up by the earth? Shame communicates itself to the body as a shock, as a desire to disappear that drives through the limbs. Cuban choreographer Maura Morales approaches this embarrassing feeling from a female perspective. In a haunting dance performance, four female dancers tell the stories of their bodies in a direct, tangible, physical way. In impressive images and movements, they negotiate how shame influences our relationships and shapes our identity. It is often the gaze that triggers the shame - the gaze on the unprotected body, the unprotected person. This is very close to the experiential world of theater.
Shame playfully and deconstructively questions the roles of viewer and viewed. The audience is invited to confront this interplay of shame and openness and, in doing so, to question their own boundaries of privacy and publicity, intimacy and foreignness, self-perception and the perception of others.