CONSTELLATIONS OF ADRA | THEATRE
Constellations of Adra is a 10-minute snippet of physical theatre on the (un)making of landscape in southern Spain. Performed by anthropologists Katya Lachowicz and Rich Thornton, it stages a melting of political geographies and narrative threads to produce a composite terrain, where environments, bodies, and histories dissolve and reconfigure in real time. Drawing on Katya’s ethnographic fieldwork in Andalusia, which moves across time and the landscapes of coast and mountain, the performance weaves movement, soundscape, pause, and tension into a feral composition of 90s rave music, industrial exhaustion, and conflict. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project , fragmented narratives fuse, erode and twist across political faultlines to become (un)made as rural utopias, dystopias and techno-futures. Grounded in field-recordings crafted into an evolving soundscape that shapes its rhythm and atmosphere; narratives a...
