LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE

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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is a performance that wanders between memory and premonition — a contemporary dance solo exploring (in)communication and the emotional scars that human beings inevitably accumulate over time. An inventory of reflections on the human condition and its intricate relationship with the forces that govern our existence. This search for meaning is presented through an intimate and distinctly feminine lens.

On stage, a fragmented narrative unfolds, transforming the scene into a scenographic installation. Through staged action, universal themes—love, pain, hope, the urge to explore the world, and the need to share experiences— are addressed. Gradually, the performer and creator immerse us in a magical play of subtle humor, transporting the audience into a galaxy of personal reflection that remains deeply accessible.

This scenic proposal is a warm invitation to walk together through a personal gaze that nevertheless awakens tingles in the collective imagination.

55 minutes of celebration, marking 29 years on stage.

Created and performed by Laura Aris
Original Music by Roger Marín
Dramaturgical support: Muriel Hérault
Light Designer by Alban Rouge
Costumes advised and transformation by Amber De Sagaer
Light technician on Latino American tour: Gerson Guerra
Residences at La Caldera (Barcelona), Destelheiden Art Center (Belgium), Studio Belgica and Ultima Vez asbl (Brussels).
Thanks to Jos Baker, Karen Joosten and Luciana Carlevaro.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is a co-production of Sismògraf Dance Festival (Catalonia), Theater Roxy (Basel, Switzerland), and Laura Aris Projects, with the support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

THE PRESS SAID

‘At the end, the audience was on their feet applauding in ovation, and I, who am not at all easy to cry, wept with an emotion that is difficult to contain and explain. (…) Laura Aris Álvarez's “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a before and after! I think that, once again, I've gone back to being twenty years old and that this experience has made me “click” and has become part of my DNA’.
Alfonso Becerra, Artezblai, 13-05-2024.
“She has transfigured the material made of memory and sensations into dramaturgy, a big word that contains more than one. So we see that there is a dramaturgy of the object, of the costume, of the body, which, by the way, plays the primordial role because it is a body that carries within itself a technique that, over time, has metamorphosed into experience, into humanity, into art.”
Genoveva Mora Toral, El Apuntador, 19-12-2019.

"Aris dresses—and undresses—her work with elements that appear and disappear, apparently from nothingness, giving a twist to a fairly abstract plot that reveals intimate pain and hope."
Jordi Bordes, El Punt Avui, 2017.

“The piece is sustained by the expressive strength of Aris and the good ideas it hides.”
Oriol Puig Taulé, Núvol, the digital culture magazine, 2017.

Summary of the 3rd day of Escenas do Cambio 2024, Galicia (ES).