NÁCAR at Dance Festivals Malta
July 25 @ 7:25 pm - 9:30 pm
NÁCAR returns to Maltese stages for Dance Festival Malta this July. Experience the driving force of Paloma Muñoz’s powerful work, as part of programme 3B (25th July) at Teatru Manoel, Valletta.
NÁCAR explores a desire to inhabit ghosts; those that survive in images, that persist in our bodies, and call out from the invisible. In this powerful new creation by Paloma Muñoz, one of Spain’s most innovative choreographic voices, suspended figures appear frozen, breathing and decomposing under the gaze of others. As their flesh is exposed their bodies call out, striking one another as a call to resist and remember. NÁCAR invites us to lend our bodies to the memory of others — to become vessels of presence, beauty, and shared echoes.
“Bodies as vessels of resonance. Offered, overlapping and available, allowing the dead to look, speak, and move through them, so that what is no longer here may insist and take form again as gesture and presence. Invocation and luminous possession: a ritual where memory infiltrates with a crooked smile, unfolding between the sacred, the ornamental, and what still breathes. A delight held like a spell.” – Paloma Muñoz