CRA’P resident January to March 2025
ALL, WITCHES
‘’All, witches‘’ is a work in the field of dance and the living arts, that proposes a re-reading of collective imaginaries and vindicates the memory of women accused of the crime of witchcraft and its stigmatisation, opening up a space to listen, repair and make visible the different forms of violence that women, especially those from the rural world, have been subjected to.
Through the body, dance, objects and sound, visual and textual materials, the work weaves a poetics of intimacy that confronts the audience’s gaze.
‘’All, witches‘’ gives us the opportunity to create new imaginaries about the ghosts and shadows of everything that still survives with us today.
ARTISTIC DETAILS:
Direction, creation and interpretation: Zoe Balasch
Visuals: Alex Cuadrado
Sound treatment and mixing: David Dàmaso and Alex Cuadrado.
Music: ArvoPärt (Te Deum); Cocanha (Au son deu vriolon), Jon Hopkins
(Arriving)
Voiceovers: Jacob Torres and Zoe Balasch.
Sources of documentation for the sound material:
‘La cacera de bruixes a Catalunya’ Estudis i documents (1830-2020), Pau Castell Granados, Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Diputació de Barcelona.
‘La cacera de bruixes a la Vall Fosca”– Excerpt from the interview with Pau Castell and Agustí Alcoberro programme on guàrdia!-421, Catalunya ràdio, 3 June 2012.
Quote by Joseph Goebbels
Sources of documentation for the textual material: Sílvia Federici, Núria Morelló, Agnès Rotger, Pau Castell, Agustí Alcoberro, Thomas Hobbes, William Shakespeare.
Advisor in the movement: Esther Freixa
Accompaniment in the production: Ariadna Miquel
Artistic residency: Nau Côclea, Centre de Creació Contemporània, CRA’P – Creation practices and artistic research.
Zoe Balasch participates in scenic and collaborative contexts where body, dance and performance art are the backbone to create new narratives around issues that concern her. Her creations include solo and group performances with versatile projects that lean towards “site-specific” creation rather indoor/outdoor and in rural/urban environments resulting in dance/performance pieces, choreographies in the landscape, participatory actions and performative walks with a singular language that fluctuates through a wide spectrum of creative forms.
She continually formulates and questions the language of dance, movement and bodies and their exhibition contexts, presenting her works at national and international festivals, art galleries, centers of creation and universities in Catalonia, Spain, Cyprus, Slovakia, Thailand, Denmark, France, Portugal and Germany.