It has a distinct point of origin.
It is many at once.
It likes inhabiting new places.
It has a tendency to indulge in drama.
It changes through contact.
It keeps becoming.
Established in 2019, DOLORES launched with the Spanish translation and staging of Annie Ryan's theatrical adaptation of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride. The production, Una niña es una cosa a medio formar, was nominated for Best Monologue by the Asociación de Críticos y Periodistas de Teatro (ACPT) in Mexico City. Since then, the collective has expanded its practice across film and performance through works including A Frog, a Frog! A Toad, a Toad!, a short film; Medea or Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose, a hybrid sound installation and performance; and You Are a Form of Weather, a new performance currently in development.
If I meet the agency of sound, sound acts on me affectively—it’s a loop affair. My body is affected, gets trapped in the sound, and the performance begins. Indeed, it’s all about relationships: to sound, to the other, the objects, the space, the audience, even to the others in oneself. Through these relationships I am searching for traces, prompts, clues, traps—to just be myself.
If I meet the agency of sound, sound acts on me affectively—it’s a loop affair. My body is affected, gets trapped in the sound, and the performance begins. Indeed, it’s all about relationships: to sound, to the other, the objects, the space, the audience, even to the others in oneself. Through these relationships I am searching for traces, prompts, clues, traps—to just be myself.