Compañía Nacional de Danza

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#Incubatio rescues an ancestral practice, Incubatio, a technique aimed precisely at a process of re-association and re-organization of the psychological complexity of the human being, in order to enable the development of a new personality center. In this sense, #Incubatio is a work based on the practice of the same name that had its origin in Western Asia, on the distant margins of the Eastern Greek world, and that spread and developed during the classical period throughout southern Europe. , even reaching the Iberian Peninsula. A healing technique that consisted of lying down in a sacred enclosure, a cave or temple, in order to enter a state beyond daytime consciousness until it ended with a vision or dream with healing capabilities. In these rituals, the sick person or person who was new to this practice was not alone, there were people in charge of the place called Iatromantis who accompanied the patient to understand what they needed to know without interfering in the experience. This technique was practiced in classical Greece by people like Parmenides or Pythagoras, who we have usually considered philosophers, but who were actually poets whose poems were magical texts. In those times the poet was a magician, a shaman. The poet’s song was simply a journey to another world, to another state of consciousness. And their journey was their song and their dance.

#Incubatio is a creation by Muriel Romero and Pablo Palacio that explores in a scenic format this ancestral rite aimed at inducing sleep episodes for healing purposes, a practice that is at the base of Western culture and also forms the foundations of modern psychotherapy. #Incubatio is a work that combines dance, electroacoustic music and artificial intelligence models, in order to delve into archetypal images associated with trance states with the support of cutting-edge interactive technology specially created for this work. The work precisely aims to highlight the importance of connecting with an unconscious part of the human being that is increasingly forgotten, more collective, which is expressed in a sea of ​​images or forms that, occasionally, access our consciousness through dreams or of abnormal mental states. A state that speaks a kind of language that acts as a bridge between the way we consciously express our thoughts and a more primitive, more colorful, more graphic form of expression: a dream language that appeals directly to feeling, emotion and therefore both to the body.

The piece proposes a new hashtag, #Incubatio, which paradoxically invites us to disconnect from social networks and connect with ourselves through interactive technology specially designed to connect with our body and translate dance into sound, image and light.