N'Alcordanza

During the pandemic a lot of elderly people were lost, both while alone at home and in residencies. This was a generation that had also gone through other paradigm shifting events such as wars, and were now leaving, without any kind of ceremony, because of the illness that isolated the world. Those at home had to be isolated from their family and friends, alone and disoriented in their own houses, like lost children. How much history and how many stories did we lose because of this? What stays in the shadows when dementia or Alzheimer appear and start switching off lights in the library of memories? When people get to a certain age, it is said, they start behaving more like children, they quietly walk through the memories of their youth, remembering without problems people and situations from many years ago. And when they go, they leave behind a space with their shape, scent, stories, words, songs, tales… This work tries to explore significant anecdotes from their lives, inviting them to join in movement sessions, gathering stories to mould into a performance made of a series of scenes. These scenes are everyday moments, infused with magical realism, to reflect on topics of memory, absence, and transmission.