Friction

Wandering through the realms of hyper-therapy, soap-illusions and psychological projections a group of people rediscovers the beauty of encounter. Going beyond the smooth situation of staying separated they enjoy the dynamic of giving and taking between opposite forces which want to meet. Sustaining conflicting energies instead of avoiding, they explore friction as a practice of transformation.

In a playground of biographies, a turmoil of thoughts, desires, fears, and compulsive actions appear, created by bodies, who are conditioned by narratives, we project on ourselves or on others. Do we really meet when we mirror ourselves in the other?

Sophia Rodriguez explores with her performers the act of friction as a strategy to get rid of psychological and cultural garbage that limits us to connect with each other. Friction becomes a deliberately chosen act of rubbing projections, beliefs and identities against each other as if they are pieces of dry dead wood. Sustaining this rubbing of unbridgeable differences creates an enormous heat in our minds and bodies, it will burn down our protection shields, for sure liquid will reappear in our way of thinking, a vitalising wetness of unknown visions and desires, a fluidity that destroys our comfort zone made by the narratives we told ourselves. Can we adapt to what is beneficial for that moment of connection, and not what is beneficial to who we think we must be. 

In 'FRICTION' we play with rubbing/flipping different atmospheres of connecting. Treasure diving in between the deep, the superficial, the artificial, the natural, the sentimental, the intellectual, the intimate, the opinionated. No quality can be excluded to glide along.