MIRAR MUCHO TIEMPO TUS VALLES isn´t a dance piece. Neither is it a text based play. MIRAR MUCHO TIEMPO TUS VALLES is what remains when words and contact are not enough. In this spiral of frustration and reproach, feelings can only be expressed through the body.

MIRAR MUCHO TIEMPO TUS VALLES analyzes three relationships where the frustration and denial of acceptance are the protagonists. Love between the characters is inevitably destined to fail. The only thing left for them is reproach. They only can harm themselves. They don’t want to be happy, but they don’t seem to totally realize it. They are trapped within the tyranny of the victim, each one in their own separate way... They don’t easily give themselves to love; they don’t openly devote themselves to each other. Because of this, their lives are turned into a permanent repetitive cycle of that which has already been lived, or a slight variation at most.

Günter, Horacio, Sara and Berta “Are distanced from the world, condemned, wanderers, lost in a desert. They´ll never manage to fully quench their rage. Their pleasures will be their punishments. Their disordered souls try to fulfill their destiny and escape the infinity they carry within them.”

The stories of these characters are woven together, interlaced, disordered. The logical coherence of things is of little importance when the focus of our attentions is our emotions, of the rupturing of an intimate relationship.

Only within this bitter rupture do the characters emotionally unblock themselves and express everything that they´ve felt towards the other… but it´s too late. There´s no point in hiding in poetry, in words in which the poet manages to trap the very essence of love. Those beautiful words don´t even manage to be pronounced with any coherence. There´s no point in other tricks like sex or violence to delay the eventual farewell. There´s no point explaining how long one has looked at the valleys of another´s body.

“The valley of your ankles, the valley of the curve of your calf, the valley of your waist, the valley of the slope of your neck as it meets with your shoulder, the valley of your bended arm.”

MIRAR MUCHO TIEMPO TUS VALLES tries to decode the intimate universe of people that love each other, and suffer for doing so. Within this suffering, the impossibility of love and of being loved like one wants is revealed. This intimacy is displayed for an audience, turning it into a voyeur of the virtues and defects of people who don´t have a life instruction manual to hand. All that remains for them is to, “Bear the implacable passing of time. Bear the implacable passing of the hours,” that time which they now have to overcome alone.