Neo-liberalism is a new form of colonisation: it imposes its agenda of customs and beliefs with a radical violence, and condemns the colonised body to a life oriented around its values: youth, success, asepsis, and non-locality. As with old-school colonialism, the last thing it seeks is the independence of the colonised body, its freedom, and as such it demands amnesia and rejects any notion of a different future.

Neoliberalism is the perfect fiction, an impeccable application of the Aristotelian concept of verisimilitude.

Through domestication, various bodies compete to achieve the ideal that will rescue them from their own body: from hunger, death, fear, memory or illness. Bodies are convinced of the need to become “genuine” and allow themselves to be diluted by cosmopolitanism in exchange for suffering the most contemporary of tragedies: awareness of leading a day-to-day existence constructed through acts that are destroying the world.

Domestication is the first instalment of Bekristen/Christians, a trilogy that emerges from a project begun in Equatorial Guinea in 2016 that reflects on human need, social trauma and collective failure.

SCENIC DIRECTOR (ACT II), CHOREOGRAPHY DIRECTOR, DRAMATURGY AND TEXT

Luz Arcas

SCENIC DIRECTOR (ACT I), DRAMATURGY, SOUND SPACE AND TEXT

Abraham Gragera

DANCE

Luz Arcas, Marcos Matus Ramírez, Danielle Mesquita, Paula Montoya and Louis Mendy

VOLUNTEERS

Rocío Barriga, Elena Conde, Georgia Creppi, Daimi Delgado, Didier Doleon, Patxi Durán, Daniel España, Serena Gallo, Carlos González, Cristian O. Hazin, Ksenia Lazarieva, Marta Lorrio, Beatriz Mbula, Julia Nicolau, Tamara Osorio, Eduard Peña, Adrián Perea, Patricia de la Plaza, Adolfo Puntas, Rocío Tejada, Miguel Sepúlveda, Daiana Vegas y Rodrigo Villalva

VIOLIN, ELECTRONIC

Luz Prado

VOICE

David Azurza

SCENIC SPACE

Luz Arcas and Carmen Main

CUSTOM DESIGN

Gabriela Coll

LIGHTING AND TECHNICAL DIRECTION

Jorge Colomer

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO

Virginia Rota

ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE

Celso Giménez

GRAPHIC DESIGN

María Peinado

RECORDING, MIXING AND MUSIC MASTERING

Carlos González y Gabriel Castellano (Piccolo)

COPRODUCTION

Teatros del Canal and La Phármaco

WITH THE SUPORT OF

Centro Cultural de España en Malabo

“It is a resounding cultural clash woven to perfection”.

“The new project by the Pharmakos Dance Company is beautiful, as much from a dramaturgical as from a visual perspective. The commitment of the dancers is complete and their energy is transmitted from the beginning to the end of the show”.

“Bekristen puts forward a unique look at the world: that of a free body”.

“Against that domestication the show proposes a rebellion through dance, the finding of its own rhythm, with forms specific to dance above and beyond homogenization, with hybridity”.

“The show takes no prisoners. Perhaps because domination doesn’t either”.