La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival: Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company presents "Lunch with Sonia"
Company:
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
Lunch with Sonia (2021)
April 12–16 (Wednesday–Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 5:30pm)
The performance on Saturday, April 15, will be in Spanish.
The Club
Loco7’s Lunch with Sonia is a dance puppet theater piece inspired by writer and company member Federico Restrepo’s true-life experience with his Aunt Sonia, who decided to end her life with dignity at the age of 72 after a long illness. The show uses puppets, live actors, music, video and physical theatre to deal with the themes of life, love, and loss. Conversations about assisted dying bring up controversial and emotionally fraught issues: morality, religion, politics, and faith. With this piece, Loco7 hopes to acknowledge the incredible intimacy and the very personal nature of dying as the final event of living a self-actualized, individual human life, and to move the dialogue from the philosophical arena to the realm of personal experience and stories related to the topic of death with dignity.
Written and co-directed by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber. Choreography, light, set, and puppet design: Federico Restrepo. Sound design composition by Leonie Bell. Featuring: Marina Celander, Catherine Correa, Aaron Haskell, Hope Kroog, Jorge Ariel Blanco Muñoz, Steven Orrego Upegui, and Federico Restrepo.
Photo by Richard Termine
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