About the show
Written Portraits is a participative, durational, inclusive, diverse and cross-disciplinary performance based on improvisation where, as painters do, I portray a person improvising a poem with my typewriter and the person gets the poem on paper as a present.
Words and the portrayed person sitting in front of me drive this unique and unrepeatable moment into an experience of trance and personal interconnection that erases barriers, creates a sense of belonging, self-respect and inclusion, encouraging the audiences to be part of a self-discovering, self-respecting and anti-stereotyping piece of art. At the same time, artists of diverse disciplines portray the person of the audience with a spontaneous piece of music, dance, circus or visual arts, all this giving a unique experience that includes the audience as part of the process of creating an itinerant mirror.
Participated in more than 60 festivals, performed more than 300 times, portrayed around 3000 persons in 6 years, worked together with more than 100 artists of diverse disciplines and included in the so called “the bible of performance” Emergency Index. WHAT A TRIP!!!
An object
The Written Portraits Poems book gathers 100 poems written during three years of performances.
It includes a twenty pages prologue in English and Spanish telling the story of the idea and its evolution.
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Why?
Writing as an act. The writer beyond his desk. Telling stories than the skin tells. Live. In the moment. Creating with no premeditation. A mirroring game. In the moment. For the moment. That remains as part of our experience. That stays on a paper.
The swing behind
This performance is based on improvisational poems live written and often invites artists of diverse disciplines. Live music, live painting and improvisational contemporary dance; disciplines which not only drive the moment and the words into an experience of trance and human interconnection but also tend to portray the person in its own language.
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