Corazón de Vaca was born at the end of 2005 with the union of artists from different countries and disciplines. Since our first work, The Riddle of the Sphinx 2005 premiered in Perth, Western Australia, we have continued to expand the company's geographic boundaries, objectives and components and have premiered six other self-devised pieces:
Corazón de Vaca 2005
(Pieces of) A Cow's Heart 2005
U.D. (Urban Dreaming) 2005
Tears of Blood 2008
Bridging Puentes 2008
The Bridging Project 2009
and two particular presentations of stage texts:
Sarah Kane's Phaedras Love 2007
Play Beckett 2009 a collection of Samuel Becketts short pieces
Through these works we have created links between theatre, visual art, choreography, site-specific installations, dance, written and spoken word as well as traditional indigenous dance and music. We have also created bonds between people who work and live on opposite sides of the world.
The major goal of the company is to defy perceptions of what is and isn't acceptable, both on stage and in human behaviour, and our biggest challenge is to continue finding and creating links between territories that seem at first impossible to connect.
Always, beneath everything we do there is movement of the journey, the mixing,
the connecting and the reshaping of ideas generated for, and by our creations.
We work for and within that movement.
Our job is to mix things.
Our job is to study movement.
When we move, we surprise ourselves by finding things in places where we didn't expect to find them.
We find ourselves being found by things that we didn't even know exist.
And when we stand still, observing the movement around us, things land at our feet in unexpected ways.
Our creative perspective is not particularly clearer than any other
But we have made it our own.
We ask questions of ourselves
And create questions for others
We have done this from the beginning.
We believe in questioning distance, joy, pain, violence and love.
Things that are not always what they seem.
We do not offer all the answers
And the answers we find are not always correct.
Sometimes, it is better when they are not
We believe in honesty.
And from it...
We mix things one more time, and we study that movement.
Again, and again, and again.
Somehow, within all of this, there is always hope.
