Peeping on reality

Originally Argentine choreographer Gabriela Carrizo (1970, Córdoba) founded the Brussels collective Peeping Tom in 2000, together with Franck Chartier. Since then, Peeping Tom has grown into a nationally and internationally appreciated dance theatre company. Carrizo’s experimental style is at the intersection of dance and theatre, the banal and the mysterious and the normal and the abnormal.

Peeping Tom’s creation re-imagines three of its pieces in a labyrinthine journey through the corridors of memory (The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor). A trilogy in which the characters unsuccessfully try to create a new version of reality.

The prestigious Belgian company Peeping Tom has revolutionised the language of dance and theatre with a distinctive style and a dreamy and cinematographic aesthetic. A very characteristic world of its own, dark and disturbing, but one that retains the spark of a sense of humour.

In Triptych, the characters, lost in time and space, continuously move away from and seek out each other. When they embarked on this journey they were full of hope, but reality has led then to an uncertain fate. They try to find a way through their wandering thoughts as they relive their memories – or create new versions and distortions of them. Triptych thus appears as a melancholic nostalgia for the future.

The characters’ inner search is reflected in the set design. They are isolated, lost in the darkness of the stage, in a labyrinth of missing doors, lost rooms and hidden floors where the characters act out their own fiction.

Thanks to JournalDance