“A body that falls” is an ode to freedom that comes with old age

“My mother died at 50 and before she died,” Imejor Gaby told me because I don’t want to get to old. says Gaby Blancoauthor and director of

“A body that falls”, Documentary work based on the lives of four women. “We are four old people who continue to wish,” they say. Blanco began the investigation that won the scholarship to the creation of the National Arts Fund with the question about what is to get older.

With performances by Silvia Rodriguez, Miriam Varela, Cris Rodriguez and Ana Sosa, debuts on Sunday at the eccentric of the 18th we talked with White.

Journalist: How do you do not act on stage?

Gaby Blanco: There are four very powerful women, they have some experience in works in the field of dance, body expression, are very orderly, attentive and concentrated. I was impacted that they fully trusted me because it was a process of discovery of the work. First we did a debate table and began to get together with the question about old age. I wanted to investigate that they say it is old age, socially there is a limit where it seems that old bodies are asexuated, do not want, they do not serve more than to be or receive care tasks. They opened and told how they reached that stage of life, the changes they made, they all feel freer now than what they were before. All are very empowered.

Q.: Why didn’t you see anyone aging your family?

GB: I won the National Arts Fund to believe about this that is unfailing, we all know that we are going to die but not all know that we are going to age. Old age seems like an otherness that happens to others, old people seem to always be old, you are annulled youth. There is something that always caught my attention because in my family they died very young and my grandparents were always old and died when I was little. My mother died at 50. We live in a society that where old are bodies to repress, one would have to be more careful, they are people who charge ridiculous retirements, they get benefits. Old age is the longest moment in life. One of them says “thirty years ago I am old,” is that with science, we live more and more years and there are other ways to carry out the work world so everything extends more. Socially you are more repressed, stigmatized and the market does not end up addressing that. It is the longest but less deepened stage, they are people who still want, wanting to have boyfriends, brides, rediscover sexuality and body. The testimony they give is interesting, as they felt sexually before and now, what happens to the body and head. You may not combine what they feel mentally when they don’t care what they will say with what happens in a body that does not yield in the same way.

Q.: How do they inquire into that concept of grandmother?

GB: Asexúa the bodies and cancels erotic desire. There is a very funny anecdote that one of them told, he liked a dance classmate who was 50 years old and she was 80. When she hugged her, she said she was heated, but he hugged her like a grandmother. And she said “I am a grandmother, but not him.” Suddenly those bigger bodies are stopped and has to do with a social stigma of old age. They said that “they do not hug us because we remember death” and yes, old age is a stage prior to the end of life.

Q.: What stories these women told you?

GB: Three of them married very young, had children at age 17, were excited to marry. Today we see it very rare. Then they are women who now develop a bigger sexual freedom, it is fascinating. They want to have a boyfriend, meet someone, sex seems important to them.

Q.: What is it like to do independent theater today?

GB: He always had costs and benefits but we cannot stop doing it, it has been, efforts, friends, love for what we do. We are convinced and need to do it. Something magical happens, forces, people, the four women and the entire team are bound in this context of crisis where social fabrics are broken and art is necessary, it is the exit.

Q.: How do you see theater and culture?

GB: As an incessant machine of questions that generates discomfort and new ways of thinking. It is a good trench at this time. It is the place where a raw reality can be denounced and that annihilates us every day, without metaphors.