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Conception and direction: Pedro Torres
Choreography: Guillem Jiménez, Paula Serrano, Pedro Torres
Performers: Guillem Jiménez, Paula Serrano
Neons: Leo Villoro
Scenography, lighting, costume: Pedro Torres
Music: Falling (Pedro Torres)
Sound technician: Marc Ribera Valls
Video documentation: Paula Lienard




Dance piece by Pedro Torres with Guillem Jiménez, Paula Serrano and neon sculptures, based on the project Time Bends as We Come Closer, first presented at Chiquita Room in 2020. The presentation is part of the program of Barcelona Gallery Weekend and Hangar Obert 2021.


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from the past ∞ from the future is a dance piece that arises from two previous neon sculptures, From the Past (Score —h) and From the Future (Score v—), created for the exhibition project Time Bends as We Come Closer, in which Pedro Torres investigates the curvature of space-time and the consequent gravitational force.

In researching the project, the artist focuses on two artistic fields that consciously explore gravity: sculpture and dance. In an attempt to combine both disciplines, he designs a sculpture like a trace of light in space, with curves and ellipses that refer to the orbits of celestial bodies (object of study of physics related to gravitational fields), but it also functions as a score, a starting point for a later dance piece, in which two dancers would interact with the neon sculptures. 

After some research and rehearsal periods working with dancers and choreographers Guillem Jiménez and Paula Serrano, from the past ∞ from the future was born from some science stories (especially the detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes) as an evolving exploration of body, light and shapes, based on the concept of the gravitational force.

The sound piece Falling (Pedro Torres, 2020), also created for the exhibition Time Bends as We Come Closer, is the soundtrack we can hear. A 48-minute soundscape made up of three existing tracks: Laurie Anderson's Walking & Falling (1982); Meredith Monk's Falling (2011); and Agnes Obel's Falling, Catching (2010). The three pieces refer to the fact of falling, a movement that our bodies constantly experience due to the gravitational force, barely perceptible or conscious in everyday life. For from the past ∞ from the future, Falling is reedited to accompany the dance movements and conceptually as a sound background that comes from the deep past.