in collaboration with Isilda Maria Andrade and Julio Linares

Jonás and Lorenzo share creative processes in which they explore the generative potentials of memory. They intertwine reminiscences with constellations of persons, objects, experiences and stories. From the relationships of these elements they create performances that integrate sound, language, video, song, text and generate situations in which they reinterpret the emotions and images of the past in correspondence with the present. In this way, the power of memory is transformed through the creation of sentimental structures organized by the different narratives that cross.

During their residency at ZdB, Jonás and Lorenzo saw for the first time a strayed recording of a night when a storm passed through a concert they gave, along with Javi Cruz, from a balcony. From this memory, and its recording, they wonder about the origin of the forces that make and destroy worlds to give ways to new ones. On that night, in 2021, the sky opened over La Flor Furtiva square in Madrid and, together, an amplified voice, some electronic devices, an umbrella, a crowd and a storm transformed into something else.

c ch chu chu chuva (más real que en el momento en que sucedió), is a site-specific performance about how a memory, when resting in a place, uncovers narrative threads that reveal possible models of story. This time it is in Lisbon where the feelings produced by that memory unfold. With them, Jonás and Lorenzo have explored the power of popular songbooks and the environments they inhabit. In these spaces, the sibilants blur the boundaries between Asturian, Portuguese and Castillian. They have also traced the trail of a great wave, whose ruins are fallen chandeliers. Tonight we pick up from the ground their glass beads that are the drops of that storm and tend towards another balcony over a square in Lisbon that has everything: lilies, fountains, tiles, wooden benches, white roses and more furtive flowers.