Departing Signals is a collaborative research project by choreographers and performers Blanca Lo Verde and Carla Piris. The research departs from the deconstruction of established physical and vocal codes to access the mysterious and elusive domains of human expression and existence.
The main approach of the research is physical, working from the concreteness of the body and the voice, and the archive they contain. Within the materiality of the body, context exists. “Gestures and vocalizations incorporate memory and culture, fantasy and speculation at the same time. Meanings appear embodied, alive, and unstable” (Peeters, 2022). We are interested in working from what already lies within the body (form) toward the emergence of some kind of recognition or meaning (content). This implies working with the performative from a place of becoming rather than from representation. In the words of Gilles Deleuze: “Not to pretend, not to play or imitate the child, the mad person, the animal, the foreigner, but to become all of this in order to invent new forms or new tools” (1996). Becoming is not a transformation of identity (it is not about literally turning into another person), but a continuous moment in which the subject ceases to be what it was and enters a process of alteration, an opening toward the other. It is a process of creation, not of representation.
It is a process of creation, not of representation.
