Patricia Hastewell and Alexandros El Greco

A piece by Patricia Hastewell and Alexandros El Greco Video by Davide Belotti Like many others, our course has deviated and the current has forced us to imagine another direction. “Deriva“ portrays the internal dialogue of a person who is in a situation of isolation, like a fisherman in the middle of the ocean. It depicts the trajectory, the mental swing of that imaginary character that is found only in his barcode. It stages the inner world that we all have and that is aggravated in moments of solitude, as many have experienced in this time of confinement. It gives life to the fears, the illusions, the dreams, the ties that make us who we are. “Deriva“ is a solo danced by two people, to represent the duality of oneself, the two faces of an individual, each with different ambitions, morals, ideas or objectives and their struggle to find an agreement. In this way it gives shape to the feminine and masculine, to light and darkness, to reason and emotion that make up the human being. It all unfolds in the character’s internal world, thus focusing on what is not there, on the immaterial universe and questions which is more real, what we think or what we touch, what we feel or what we see? The character finds himself in a situation of emptiness where illusions and dreams are the focus of life and what keeps him standing on his feet. But how stable is the ground?