Program

NOW

 30 June 2023, Cuba – Interactive Performance.

General direction and artistic direction: Erika Ivacson.

Choreography direction: Aymara Vila
Projection mapping:: Roberto Guerra
Photographer/recording: Eloy Rodríguez
Actors: Adlih Fernández, Adriana Migueles Rodríguez, Alexander Barrero Vaillant, Daniela Gascón Ramírez, Ernesto Domenech, Jennifer Torres Roque, Jessica Torres Roque, Leonardo Romero Negrón, Lianka Real Spech, Marian Hernández Manuz, Marla Almaguer, Yanela Lázara Rosabal, Yaniry Fariñas García 

In collaboration: Instituto E.E.P.Félix Varela, Ludwig Foundation in Cuba.

The presentation of the performance took place during the International Congress, with the theme: ‘The human being between new technologies and transcendence for a very human’, organised by the Instituto E.E.P. Félix Varela together with the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. The performance not only captures creativity in action; it is a testimony to mutual growth and the power of art to reveal who we are and who we can become.  Art serves as a master key to unlock human potential, in an environment where every movement, every word and every brushstroke brings us closer to our essence.

THE FACE, MY IDENTITY

04.05.2023 – Welcoming myself, accepting and listening to myself, being with myself, living with myself.
Pau Ricoeur’s answer to the internal question of identity is based on narrative theory. Ricoeur says that man understands himself to the extent that he narrates himself.
It seems very interesting because it really is something we do every day, we relate to others, we make our life a narrative, but here the comment I would like to make is: How do we relate to ourselves?

Ernesto Domenech

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

The experience was unique. It came at a time when I needed an emotional respite and art was the best way for that. [The course] gave me an opportunity to meet and share with fantastic people, create together, discuss various topics and learn. It really changed my life, the socialising made me much more empathetic, sensitive and respectful towards otherness. In the end it gave me something huge, love. It is something worth repeating.

Wendy Pérez Bereijo

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

We have all had a wonderful experience within the course, because of the inter-subjective relationships and friendships we have built over these three months. We all felt that the time we had was quite short, which means we did something good.

Lilibel Pérez Chirolde

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

I think it was a door that opened, a possibility. A door that we do not go through leaving out who we are, but entering with all our experiences, carrying that  backpack that sometimes weighs us down and that I now feel is lighter. I feel it has helped us to be more ourselves, to discover what we have inside and who surrounds me.

Jorge Carlos Carrión Escudero

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

[The workshop] Helped me to open up more in the creative process, also in my way of thinking, of acting, and at the same time it helped me to get in touch with other people, artists, experts in every subject who contributed their part to this artistic experience of growth.

Jennifer de la Caridad Torres Roque

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

A unique life experience, in which I experienced a process of self-discovery and encounter with the other. It allowed me to break all my barriers. It changed my vision of art and life in general. I realised that sharing is the most beautiful thing when creating, because that is where the most beautiful things in life come from.

Jessica de la Caridad Torres Roque

2023 – Creative Passion – Cuba

I was lucky enough to participate in the DAB project from the beginning and I have noticed a radical change in myself as a person and in the way I see and feel art.

In general, all these courses have helped me to reinvent myself. This is vital in our lives, we can’t live stuck in the “I can’t do it”. The course has helped me to forget about what others might say about what I do, it has helped me to really live and only art can do that. My relationship with art has changed radically, I have always liked contemplating art more, but now I also like to create, even if I don’t want to dedicate myself professionally to it. This course gave me the push to join my school choir, to make a self-portrait, to photograph others even though I have no idea about painting or photography. This course has the capacity to eliminate, the feeling of shame in me, prejudices about myself and others and I believe that this is only possible when the people behind it all are able to make us, those who are part of it, feel that we are in a safe, welcoming place. There is nothing more beautiful than learning from others and feeling at home with people you barely know by name and DAB has achieved that too.

I feel like a totally different person and I honestly feel very different on a daily basis. It’s a long job, it’s not a one day’s work, but this course has helped me to get rid of the feeling of shame and the limits that I set for myself. It has helped me to enjoy myself, art and the experience of seeing the other as a gift, as an instrument to help me to be better.

I think my experience in this project has a lot to do with beauty. I believe that beauty is a way of contemplating the good, of manifesting the good in this world, and through art we are able to personify that beauty, which seems something abstract but which is within us, and art is the means to bring out the beauty within us, to highlight the beauty of things and people.

2022 – Inside and through BEAUTY – Cuba

We all have the capacity to create art, it is we ourselves who set limits. This course is necessary to discover within ourselves how to bring out all that is artistic, the art we carry within us, and I think it was a very useful experience for everyone.

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