Sampling takes ida y vuelta dances as its point of departure: gestures, rhythms and techniques
that travel between territories, bodies and cultural systems, returning altered by each encounter.
From this circulation, Adrian Vega builds a choreographic solo in which the body operates as a
living archive, screen, sensor and sampler.
The body carries flamenco footwork, breaking, football, popular culture, family memory and
digital images. These materials reveal a mixed authorship: every gesture contains journeys,
transmissions, appropriations and erasures. Through sampling operations, the performer cuts,
repeats, delays, distorts and recomposes them, asking how a personal voice can emerge from
movements shaped by many bodies.
The work begins while the audience enters. A rhythmic structure holds the room as the
performer prepares cables, cameras, shoes, microphones, reflective surfaces and a football.
The stage gradually becomes a recording and projection device. Each action creates an image,
each image returns to the body, and each return changes the movement.
Four projections create a frontal field of multiplied images. The body receives them through
costume, skin, mylar and scenic surfaces. The performer controls the apparatus, then enters
its delays, residues and visual errors. Choreography, image, sound and light continuously
rewrite one another.
