The Place

WORK-IN-PROGRESS, Premiere 2025

The Place wonders about the relationship we have and could have with the places we are in, carved from a concrete experience in one particular place that we decide on calling “The Place”, for the sake of evident simplicity. In the format of an interactive performance, the audience is invited to linger in this place and the places inside of it. It happens there that perspectives and senses come together, accompanied by amplified sounds, original songs, and the bodies and words of four women in red with a special love for places.

Driven by the idea that we are never only in one place, but that places carry us unconditionally through life, we want to recognise these non-human entities as kin and consider them as part of our most valuable relationships. We are unsure if places feel the same, but we would like them to know that we care, even though our human mind can sometimes be as limited as a swimming pool.

We would like to infuse our audience with some love for the simple placement of things, materials, sounds, corners, traces, footprints… in short, for the place itself, that holds the passers-by and people who inhabit it.

We look for an intimate connection with the audience, where people can experiment the relationship to places for themselves. For this we invent little games and practices that connect us with the place of the performance and from there to other places of our lives.

https://in-situ.info/narratives/diary-of-the-residency-of-the-place-at-menu-spaustuve-in-vilnius-2024

Creation, dramaturgy & performance:

Alina Stockinger, Ana Redi-Milatovic, Claudia Mirambell, Daniela Poch

Music & sound:

Jakob Rüdisser

Costume:

Caroline Haberl

Production:

Arnau Vinós & Eléctrico Express

Project coordination:

Alina Stockinger

Outside Eyes:

Sergi Estebanell, Josep Cosials

Photography:

Jonay PMatos, Dainus Putinas, Eva Freixa

Mentoring sessions:

Shaday Larios, Maria Stoyanova

Sound advice:

Joan Cot

Co-produced by:

ICEC & Generalitat de Catalunya, INSITU & Creative Europe, La Strada Graz, Menu Spaustuve & SPOT Festival Vilnius, Hivernem, Fira Tàrrega, Ramon Llull, Stadt Graz Kultur,

Other supporters:

Cultura Cardedeu & Tèxtil Rase, Escena Poblenou & Can Felipa