The Miracle Worker
The miracle worker emerges from the need of the company members to connect with their places of origin. Remembering, reimagining, rewriting, reliving... it only makes sense if we return to where it all began. After leaving the land and forming and maturing as artists away from it, far from their families and roots. "The Miracle Worker" seeks to create together with the idea of being on stage, of activating with the body this miraculous device that allows remembering, reliving, and continuing to live. It seeks to assemble a scenic device capable of continuing to work the miracle, working on the concepts of home, family, memory, forgiveness, reinterpretation, representation, guilt, and miracle from a physical perspective. It contrasts the work with live video in unconventional spaces.
The miracle worker is a creation project of the Madrid-based company Desgarradura that arises from the need to connect with the place of origin, after leaving the land and forming and maturing outside of it, far from their families and roots, with the intention of building a scenic device capable of imagining the miracle of reunion.
Desgarradura - Víctor Longás & Lucas Ares
Lucas Ares (actor, dancer, and stage creator) and Víctor Longás (set designer, visual artist, and stage creator) met in the context of the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid in 2017 and began working together, merging their shared visions of the stage in various projects.
Since 2021, under the name Desgarradura, they have premiered several original pieces such as Díptico de Verónica at the Teatro de La Abadía, as part of Domingos de Insurrección, a festival of contemporary creation in unconventional spaces, which was also presented at other venues like the Contenedor Cultural de la UMA; or Criadas at the Teatro Galileo - Quique San Francisco, as part of the second Sala Joven festival, also presented at the Salón Teatro del Centro Dramático Gallego.
The work they undertake at Desgarradura occupies the intersection between the visual arts and the languages inherent to the performing arts, a space brimming with tensions aimed at understanding and expanding the scenic act itself. They explore the intersection of body, object, movement, word, and image, with particular interest in their bodily implications, in scenic, plastic, and research projects from a performative perspective and through icons of popular culture. They place live video at the center of their practice as a fundamental narrative element of their pieces, experimenting with imagery and methods of creating presence on stage.