[In] visible is part of three stages of research.
2009 Wolfson College Lee Hall, Cambridge.
Choreography
Loreto Valenzuela.
Artistic Direction
Loreto Valenzuela in collaboration with
Wolfson Performing Arts Society.
Visuals, sound and lights
Loreto Valenzuela Performed byChristine Urbanski
Sabine Spindler
Neil Shailer
Liliana Del Villar
Rainer Engelken
Music adaptation
Astor Piazzola
︎ord ︎ press.
Five performances with a limited audience of 15 people per show.
This interactive live performance explores the shifting relationship between power and love through autobiographical fragments, collective testimonies, and materials developed in creative workshops. Moving between proximity and distance, silence and speech, presence and withdrawal, the work examines how physical actions shape perception and transform meaning.
In dialogue with T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton and Michel Foucault’s understanding of power as relational, the performance asks how bodies negotiate intimacy, control, resistance, and care. A pause becomes charged, a gesture becomes decisive, and an exit becomes a form of speech. What appears absent is not empty; silence itself becomes an active force.
The audience is invited into a shared space where listening, misreading, and response are constantly shifting. Here, love is not separated from power, but entangled with it—revealing how closeness can hold both tenderness and tension, and how perception changes through every movement we make..
Ella: “can you hear?”… (long pause)
El: “what the silence?!”… (long pause)
Ella: [looks around, stands up and leaves]…
El: [puzzled] (long pause)… But… (long pause) it is beautiful as it is!? (long pause)…
In dialogue with T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton and Michel Foucault’s understanding of power as relational, the performance asks how bodies negotiate intimacy, control, resistance, and care. A pause becomes charged, a gesture becomes decisive, and an exit becomes a form of speech. What appears absent is not empty; silence itself becomes an active force.
The audience is invited into a shared space where listening, misreading, and response are constantly shifting. Here, love is not separated from power, but entangled with it—revealing how closeness can hold both tenderness and tension, and how perception changes through every movement we make..
Ella: “can you hear?”… (long pause)
El: “what the silence?!”… (long pause)
Ella: [looks around, stands up and leaves]…
El: [puzzled] (long pause)… But… (long pause) it is beautiful as it is!? (long pause)…