Cooperativa Maura Morales – Shame

In the organizer's words:

The feeling of shame is totalitarian, devouring the shamed person. It is the moment when one wishes to be swallowed up by the earth. The psychoanalyst Lacan suspects that the fear of being rejected without being loved lies behind shame. Shaming - in relation to the body, social status or education - is always a form of judgment and execution. The feeling of one's own worth is to be destroyed. And it is often the gaze that triggers the shame - the gaze on the unprotected body, the unprotected person - and thus very close to the world of experience of the theater. Cuban choreographer Maura Morales deconstructs the devouring feeling in a haunting and intense dance performance in which the five protagonists - four dancers and a musician - narrate, illustrate and dance shame as a physically experienced and tangible shock.