Scenario, a co-production of the Festival Oriente Occidente and Mart, is a performance-installation choreographed around the theme of combat. It will unfold in the museum's galleries along a pathway that, in its continuous junctions and reconfigurations, engages with the architecture and the permanent collection. The theme of combat is explored in its various interpretations, meanings, and metaphorical values: from the inner struggle to the archetypal and universal notion of figurative combat. This idea is embodied by four dancers and a singer who, by realizing their identity through their actions, explore the possible configurations and formal relationships of the means of expression: movement, dance, voice, and sound. Combat, as an ancestral choreographic model, expresses a transcultural archetype that has embodied the tension between the mimetic essence of dance and the more abstract. The performance thus thrives on spatialization, the simultaneity of events, polyphony, and choreography as a means of organizing and creating structures. The dialogue and counterpoint between the various sections and a series of works from the collection, specially selected and repositioned within the museum, grant combat and adjacent situations, such as preparation and lamentation, a sacred and special space that limits and circumscribes them. From this series of performances, a video installation will subsequently emerge, which, by connecting the choreographic material with the selected works, will be accessible during the opening hours of Mart.
