Beyond the scene

As a consequence of the social commitment of the piece, the Breach experience requires a space of continuity beyond the stage, one that is equally cared for. The goal is to propose collective participation activities around the performance: spaces where we can continue reflecting together, express ourselves, and weave complicities.

It is not only essential to keep strengthening the feminist network, but also to re-signify the institutional exhibition circuit, ensuring that a quality stage production can also be a tool at the service of the community.

Throughout the creation process, Breach has been nourished by the experiences, knowledge, and imaginations of women, professionals, and entities related to the issue. The creation of participatory spaces around the exhibition of the piece will be proposed in collaboration with feminist collectives and entities linked to the exhibition venue or its local area, with the intention of strengthening ties with and between the local community.

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Raquel

We just finished watching Breach by the Som Noise company, and my stomach is aching. It’s a pain from the past, a pain-memory, everything I’ve been carrying inside and never release because I don’t understand it. I don’t understand it, but her face and her green eyes have been with me the entire hour. Her light, deep green eyes, her firm and slippery hands. Thais’ moans and screams were mine, the ones I never made. The same ones that now pierce like needles in my stomach, trying to get out. And they can’t, they don’t come out, they stay inside because (I still) don’t understand it. I cried looking into her eyes, recognizing myself in her empty gaze. I cried watching her, with help, clear her body and clean her wound. I cried because she wasn’t doing it alone, like I would, but never did, and still don’t, because (I still) don’t understand it. I was scared watching Thais go up, down, up, up, and fall. I recognized the anguish of rocking in a calm where there’s nothing, nothing but all that you run from but it always catches you. Even though you don’t understand it. We just finished watching Breach by Som Noise, and the first thing I said was: it destroyed me. But, finally, there’s something I do understand, and it’s that I was already broken before.