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Sophia Rodriguez

Sophia Rodriguez is an actress, dancer and choreographer. She studied circus, dance and theatre in Venezuela, in Cuba and in Switzerland. She worked together with Micha Goldberg, Simon Van Schuylenbergh and Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe. In her own work Sophia uses physical performance, voice and improvisation as building blocks for energetic and feminist propositions.

Death is the room and we are the elephants

A two-way interview on anatomical theatre

Performance maker Sophia Rodriguez and longtime artistic collaborator Vivi Focquet share a common interest in ‘anatomical theatre’. Inspired by the spectacle of historical operating theatres and ancient as well as contemporary healing practices, they are at the starting point of a research project. From that precious place, this text came into being as the result of a two-way interview.