Partir: A response by Katerine Ricardo
image by Miguel Gutiérrez
From March-October 2021, Rigo Saura is in residence working on "Pink Nights Never End” with Ballet Cívico dancers: Paty (Patricia) Cepeda, Paige Kingston, Madeline Kiesel, Ari Elle Yao, and Devyn Simon.
Music: "Partir" written and recited by Katerine Ricardo, "Continent" and "Kaleidoscope" by Adrian Berenguer, "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Lighting designer: Sarah Lackner
Costume: Concept by Rigo Saura.
If we can't walk we will crawl across another world, another world, there must be another world where ...
Ruth Page's Ballet Cívico explores together with Rigo Saura's guidance, the need to create another world or at least improve the one we have.
This is the first response from embedded writer, Katerine Ricardo, to Rigo Saura’s production residency at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts sponsored by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum & the Performance Response Journal.
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Partir
Es hora de partir
Deja que te respire por última vez
Deja que el viento nos despeine
Que la lluvia bese nuestros pies descalzos
Déjame saborear tu nombre una última vez
Antes que parta.
Partir
Lejos donde tu luz no eceguezca
Donde el camino nos separe
Donde el ruido de tu silencio no me alcance
Partir
Sin saber
Qué más ofrecer cuando ya lo di todo
Un último intente sería en vano
Trágate tu amor imposible.
Ámalo libre.
Ama el modo en que ignora que tú existes.
Ama al cisne salvaje y parte
Partir
Con este querer a la espalda
Partir sin pensarlo
Partir
Para no volver.
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Rend
It is time to render us
Let me inhale you once more
Let the wind muss our hair
Let the rain kiss our bare feet
Let me savor your name one last time
Before rending
Wrench me
Far from where your light won’t blind
From where the path will cleave us
Where the sound of your silence won’t reach me
Rend
Without knowing
What more could I give when I’ve given it all
One last try would be in vain
Swallow your impossible love
Love it freely
Love the way it ignores that you exist
Love the wild swan and rend us
Renege
With that longing at your back
Renounce; don’t think
Rend
And don’t come back