Andrea Vezga Acevedo
Dance artist
HOW MANY LAYERS ‘TIL I’M GONE
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us… There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf. Orlando 1928
Clothes are a vehicle for belonging.
Through them we make sense of ourselves to the world.
I am creative, I am carefree, I am wealthy, maybe I am all of them combined.
Can clothes and their assigned semiotic values transform how we recognize others and viceversa?
How would it look if we subverted social conventions on attire?, Could you recognize yourself in me, with a simple glance, a touch, a movement?
Sometimes we hide under new layers of skin, colors and textures. Sometimes we want to pretend to be others.
Our bodies as canvas: Fabrics cover our skins giving shape to our thoughts. Validating what we are, what we think and feel. Without resorting to words we can show others who we are and who we want to be.
Concept, choreography, performance: Andrea Vezga and Nina Sandino
Music: Saleh Rozati and Erla
Dramaturgy: Rodolfo Neyra
