False Cognate (2005)

Direction: Miguel Mancillas
Duration: 70 min.
Program with intermmission

I am not my image,
I pretend, I don’t signify.
Read me between the lines,
Decipher my lies.
Close your eyes
I am a mirage,
... Believe me... 

The starting point is the daily game of appearances, of established roles. Man, woman, what one should and should not be.  However, these archetypes of behavior are exhausted. Thus, impositions generate frustration, the root of violence, the origin of the disguise.
 
Chameleons of arid regions survive due to their ability for transformation. Man, faced with the emotional aridity of his surroundings, sees himself forced to the use of camouflage, systematic deceiving the mask-make up, the clothing-disguise, the current distortion of the eye obsessed by the mirage of physical beauty.
 
An excuse to talk about current forms of love and lack thereof. The blindness before the proximity of the beast is the only explanation for the empty daily smile. A society expert in simulation; Absence of Gods; The extinction of innocence.
 
Dancers:
Perla Alvarez
Gervasio Cetto
Isaac Chau
Eunice Hidalgo
Miguel Mancillas
Asiria Valenzuela
 
Original Music
Corbett Lunsford
 
Lighting Design
Ivonne Ortíz
 
Set Design
Mónica Kubli
 
Costume Design
MA.GO.
 
Coreography
Miguel Mancillas

Production
Antares Danza Contemporánea A.C.