Mapa Teatro
La Lune est en Amazonie
© Javier Hernandez ©
© Javier Hernandez ©
© Javier Hernandez ©
Concept and direction, Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden
Dramaturgy, Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Aljosha Belgrish
Performed by Heidi Abderhalden, Agnes Brekke, Andrés Castañeda, Julián Díaz, Santiago Sepúlveda
Special guests, Jorge Alirio Melo, Levi Andoque
Music and Sound Designer, Juan Ernesto Díaz
Lighting designer, Mathias Roche
Space designer, Rolf Abderhalden
Set construction, LR.Space (Berlin)
Costume designer, Elizabeth Abderhalden
Objects designer, Jose Ignacio Rincón, Santiago Sepúlveda
Camera, Javier Hernández, Fausto Díaz, Mónica Torregrosa
Video editing, Heidi Abderhalden, Fausto Díaz, John de los Ríos, Ximena Vargas
Live video, Ximena Vargas
Stage manager, Santiago Sepúlveda
Technical director Colombia, Cécile Bickart
Technical director Europe tour, Alvaro Guisado
Producers, Mapa Teatro, José Ignacio Rincón, Ximena Vargas.
Executive production for France, Belgium and Swizterland: Le phénix scène nationale Pôle européen de création à Valenciennes
Co-producers, Ruhr Triennale, Festival International des Arts de la Ruhr ; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Francfort) ; Culturescapes (Bâle) ; Le phénix, scène nationale de Valenciennes – pôle européen de création avec le NEXT Festival ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Coréalisation Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Partnerships, Iberescena, 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Naves Matadero Madrid, centre de création contemporaine, Siemens Stiftung
Supporters, Foundation for Arts Initiatives Ffai
Special thanks to David Lapoujade, Apitachtong Weerazethakul, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Tilda Swinton, Roberto Franco (In memoriam), Germán Castro Caycedo (In memoriam), Goethe-Institut Kolumbien
By contrasting the voluntary isolation of Amazonian peoples whose survival is threatened by aggressive globalisation and that of the forced isolation of populations made vulnerable by a global pandemic, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden complete the poetic and theatrical cartography they have been drawing up over the course of the last thirty years, show after show.
March 2020. Mapa Teatro is busy developing its new piece, dedicated to groups of humans who have been in voluntary isolation in the Colombian Amazon for more than a century. But the pandemic does not spare the country and a strict form of confinement is imposed, forcing the company to interrupt its work. One year later, and the confinement has become an experience of vast proportions giving rise to a poetical-political reflection: how do these forces of isolation affect our bodies? And how has this experience modified our perception of these isolated communities that now find themselves in an even more vulnerable position, their low-key existences and the permanent risk of extinction with which they are faced? After dedicating several years to an Anatomy of Violence in Colombia, composed of a theatrical trilogy and a series of installations, in La Lune est en Amazonie, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden cast light upon violence of the ideological and ecological kind, thereby continuing to use their work as a means of resistance and creation.
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