Numbed the thorn/Entumecida la espina (WIP)
July 2025
Creation& performance: Blanca Gómez Terán
Sound Design / Live Electronics: Till Bürgin
External eyes: Murillo Basso, Isidora Gazmuri, Óscar H.Tristancho
Light design: Carlos Frahke
Fotos: Nargess Behrouzian
Video: Antje Cordes, Malin Harff
Especial Thanks: Giulia Casartelli, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Carol Mendonça, Catalina Insignares, Bojana Kunst, Xavier Le Roy, Lagha Ghavam, Micaela Odriozola, Pablo Santacana, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Annu Cutter, Katya Kaliuzhnaia and Morteza Zarei.
Support: Hessian Theater Akademie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, TANZ Gießen am Stadttheater Gießen.
Numbed the Thorn is a tragicomedy dance-performance piece inspired by the ghost-train ride where spectators voluntarily enter a fiction of fear to experience, among other things, the dopamine rush that fear produces.
The piece adopts darkness, spectacle, and heartbreak as intersecting lenses through which to question how we desire, perceive, and relate with fear. Numbed the Thorn explores darkness as a condition that suspends the primacy of vision an resist ideals of visibility, transparency, and control.
Within this unstable field, it interrogates spectacle as a contemporary economy of attention and affect, recycling its mechanisms to expose how emotional manipulation circulates across entertainment, media, performance, and cinema. B mobilizing the very tools of spectacle, the piece tries to reflect on and intervene in these dynamics from within.
These formal explorations carry an intimate charge. Through shadows and spectral imagery, the work touches experiences of grief, fear, and pain on the female body, materials with which the body on stage has worked to navigate moments of extreme vulnerability and uncertainty. Therefore, the work becomes both a political reflection and a deeply personal attempt to make space for the cry — which, at it core, amounts to the same interest: making room for the shadow.
Creation& performance: Blanca Gómez Terán
Sound Design / Live Electronics: Till Bürgin
External eyes: Murillo Basso, Isidora Gazmuri, Óscar H.Tristancho
Sound Design / Live Electronics: Till Bürgin
External eyes: Murillo Basso, Isidora Gazmuri, Óscar H.Tristancho
Light design: Carlos Frahke
Fotos: Nargess Behrouzian
Video: Antje Cordes, Malin Harff
Especial Thanks: Giulia Casartelli, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Carol Mendonça, Catalina Insignares, Bojana Kunst, Xavier Le Roy, Lagha Ghavam, Micaela Odriozola, Pablo Santacana, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Annu Cutter, Katya Kaliuzhnaia and Morteza Zarei.
Support: Hessian Theater Akademie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, TANZ Gießen am Stadttheater Gießen.
Numbed the Thorn is a tragicomedy dance-performance piece inspired by the ghost-train ride where spectators voluntarily enter a fiction of fear to experience, among other things, the dopamine rush that fear produces.
The piece adopts darkness, spectacle, and heartbreak as intersecting lenses through which to question how we desire, perceive, and relate with fear. Numbed the Thorn explores darkness as a condition that suspends the primacy of vision an resist ideals of visibility, transparency, and control.
Within this unstable field, it interrogates spectacle as a contemporary economy of attention and affect, recycling its mechanisms to expose how emotional manipulation circulates across entertainment, media, performance, and cinema. B mobilizing the very tools of spectacle, the piece tries to reflect on and intervene in these dynamics from within.
These formal explorations carry an intimate charge. Through shadows and spectral imagery, the work touches experiences of grief, fear, and pain on the female body, materials with which the body on stage has worked to navigate moments of extreme vulnerability and uncertainty. Therefore, the work becomes both a political reflection and a deeply personal attempt to make space for the cry — which, at it core, amounts to the same interest: making room for the shadow.
The piece adopts darkness, spectacle, and heartbreak as intersecting lenses through which to question how we desire, perceive, and relate with fear. Numbed the Thorn explores darkness as a condition that suspends the primacy of vision an resist ideals of visibility, transparency, and control.
Within this unstable field, it interrogates spectacle as a contemporary economy of attention and affect, recycling its mechanisms to expose how emotional manipulation circulates across entertainment, media, performance, and cinema. B mobilizing the very tools of spectacle, the piece tries to reflect on and intervene in these dynamics from within.
These formal explorations carry an intimate charge. Through shadows and spectral imagery, the work touches experiences of grief, fear, and pain on the female body, materials with which the body on stage has worked to navigate moments of extreme vulnerability and uncertainty. Therefore, the work becomes both a political reflection and a deeply personal attempt to make space for the cry — which, at it core, amounts to the same interest: making room for the shadow.