Gracias totales

Gracias totales is a ritual of gratitude around a table. It is a staging that brings together texts, speeches, gestures, and movements around the simple act of giving thanks. A relational piece in which the ritual shares space with food, conversation, magic, and the exploration of a gesture or a word.

A group of people gathers around a table to remember and invoke artists, poets, singers, or actresses who knew how to express gratitude beautifully. They delve into unfamiliar languages—from Quechua to Icelandic to Japanese—seeking the contagious sonority of gratitude, its texture, its flavor, the scent it gives off, its subtly transformative power. And as they do so, something within them becomes better attuned, something akin to a healing.

At the same time, as they listen to themselves giving thanks and thanking one another, the performers begin to build a small altar at the center of the table, feeding it with family photos, books, necklaces, plants, shells, stones, talismans, etc.—a whole array of objects that make up the living offering of gratitude, its most faithful and tangible register—inviting others to do the same. Because, after all, we never give enough thanks, and gratitude has no expiration date.
 

/ This Cruceiro Paraíso is made possible thanks to the support of the Provincial Council of A Coruña