Dancer supports arched body on stage floor

NDT 1

The missing door

Gabriela Carrizo

“A surreal thriller compared to which Twin Peaks seems toddler television”

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Gabriela Carrizo

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About the work

Set in an ominous, domestic space that slowly distorts, the boundaries between reality and illusion begin to blur. Everyday actions transform into unsettling situations, where the emotional cracks in the characters grow ever more pronounced. Carrizo shares: “The work reveals a liminal space where reality and fantasy become increasingly entwined. A place where the final minutes of a life unfold, suspended between life and death.”
The missing door is a dramatic and gripping theatrical experience.

Credits

Choreography
Gabriela Carrizo
Music
Composition and music dramaturgy by Raphaëlle Latini
Lighting design
Tom Visser
Set design
Gabriela Carrizo
Costume design
Gabriela Carrizo
NDT rehearsal directors
Tamako Akiyama, Lydia Bustinduy, Amy Raymond
In co-creation with
Lydia Bustinduy, César Faria Fernandes, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Marne van Opstal, Roger Van der Poel, Meng-ke Wu, Ema Yuasa
Staged by
Thomas Michaux
Duration
26 minutes
World premiere date
Dec. 6, 2013
World premiere location
Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam

Original cast 2013

Lydia Bustinduy, César Faria Fernandes, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Marne van Opstal, Roger van der Poel, Meng-ke Wu, Ema Yuasa

Rehearsal | The missing door - Gabriela Carrizo
  1. Performer lifts a body in a still pose beneath soft light
  2. Close embrace between two performers in warm light on an empty stage
  3. Figures gather at doorway in room set, one isolated in foreground
  4. Performer touches fogged window with figure visible behind glass
  5. Performer moves through airborne newspaper pages on stage
  6. Performer drags body across stage floor as another reclines in chair
  7. Two performers move in a dynamic counterbalance across the stage floor
Out of the stillness - NDT 1 ©Rahi Rezvani_print

© Rahi Rezvani

Out of the stillness

This work is part of the NDT 1 programme Out of the stillness