ESCape to the Void It’s a Physical Theater work carried out by Omar Carrum (Mexico) for children, teenagers and adults. A character has discovered that “the earth is flat” and is excited to share with the audience all the arguments that support his imaginary world.

Through speech and movement he takes the audience on a journey between balloons, umbrellas, fishing rods, and balls of light; intermittently changing through his different personalities condemning him to live in an interior space filled with reverie, confession, fantasy and afterthoughts.

A trip where the audience will meet the Flatearther Lecturer, the Fisherman of the last breath, the Writer of the golden cage, the Witness of his own death, the Stutterer of the Wailing Wall and the frustrated Singer. A personality disorder that inevitably ends in the breakdown of ideals and the fall into the void.

The main argument is based on the study, deepening and staging of a theatricality based on the movement, the gesture, the mask and the transformation processes of the performer.

The content established as a guiding thread ere the thoughts on  multiple personality disorder, the unanswered questions surrounding death and the imaginary worlds we create to define our identity. 

ESCape to the Void is a journey into the reality of a character who tries to decipher himself through the different emotions and body states that appear after the loss of an ideal, a dream, a loved one and what he thought he was.

STATEMENT

The truths we believe about the world, life and what is after it are so complex that they have led society to blindly believe them without questioning, the imaginary orders we have invented allow us to support those truths and define our reality until some event or unfortunate circumstance shakes our beliefs and questions our identity. Our mind seeks solutions and behind this facade of security and certainties about life, we result in an enormous loneliness and a great difficulty in finding ourselves. 

HISTORY

ESCape to the Void premieres in its first version at the International New Dance Festival in Lima, Peru with the performer Stephanie García as a commission supported by Iberescena. After a series of research, creation and perfoormance residences in Mexico, Czech Republic, Japan and the USA, Omar Carrum consolidates the creation of the Solo with performances at Detonos Festival in Bogotá, Colombia.