Memento – Cornelia Dance Company – ph. Sabrina Cirillo
OPEN REHEARSAL
Memento is a dance piece that is based on the non-event. Just as in the Beckettian masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, the tension is created by the succession of hopes that find no concrete outlet, so likewise, in life, every moment is waiting for something definitive that then, when we think we have obtained it, we always discover to be fragmented and subjective.
Within the choreography, the performers experience this waiting and, in their search for a definitive answer, divine or otherwise, to their existential condition, they seek solace from each other, challenge each other, or, like a chorus, all tend toward the same point.
In the end, the very goal of their journey will be realized in the remembrance (memento means, precisely, “remembered”) of these relationships and the sensations they have felt, making it a ritual moment, a sacred, and therefore eternal, act.