#Electra Goes to #Techno, by Xana Novais, proposes a body receiving electric shocks produced by the vibration of a dismembered set of drums. The skin dances not of its own accord but because the sound makes it move. The body moves through stimuli, available for movements in response to what surrounds it and to the words invoked by Electra.
What dances arise in the involuntary search for a body that starts moving again after the world comes to a complete stop during a pandemic situation? What gestures arise in the voluntary search of revisiting a classic?
It is a manifestation made by a single person, where the body is sacrificed by entering a state of trance for the sake of their desire to be reborn from painful situations, from muscles in tension, and, finally, for the sake of their art.
#Electra Goes to #Techno shows that a dancer's body has memory ⎯ but that it also forgets, that a body gets tired of the lack of social stimuli and, above all, that it can die if it doesn't have discipline and control over itself.
Electra is or is not considered a complex. Electra is or isn't in love with her father. Whether or not Electra hates her brother. Electra is rarely performed in contemporary theater, perhaps because she is a sad woman, a woman who has little electricity. Electra cries too much, Electra is too dramatic and turns tears into rivers. Electra goes to Techno and discovers something. Electra is unpredictable like vibration, like energy, like techno. Just as a classic can be rewritten in such a way that Electra can be happy, hysterical and futuristic. It's complex to be Electra in 2025.