This captivating & expressive work is an interpretation of Anastassiia’s poem ‘Una Máquina de Olvido/An Oblivion Machine,’ which explores how someone may be able to forget the past, by choice, as a coping mechanism for heartbreak.
A piece of poetry in motion, the performance combines elements of spoken word with dance, and features soundscapes & rhythms created by Anastassiia using a loop station.

THE MACHINATIONS OF MEMORIES SUPPRESSED is a reflective interpretation of a poem Ansatassiia has written: Una Máquina de Olvido (in English: An Oblivion Machine). The poem explores how someone may be able to forget the past, by choice, as a coping mechanism for heartbreak, and the consequences that this may bring to their life. Through the words, several questions are intertwined with the dance, toying with the fallibility of our own memories. How do our memories shape us into who we are? How does remembering something, a movement, a sound, an object, can inform our present experiences? And how we remember our emotional response to an event or experience, while we may not have a perfect recollection of it.

In this solo piece, the dance is fragmented and brought together through sound loops recorded live, which replay different percussive elements from earlier points of the performance. Through the combination of past and present steps, a new narrative is created, reshaped, and ultimately relieved.

This concert is a proud Community Co-Presentation with the High Performance Rodeo,  Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts.