sin rumbo (2023), created as part of Isabel Crespo Pardo’s 2023-24 Roulette Residency, is an ode to wandering and waiting, a participatory solo piece featuring voice, movement and moving image. Crespo attempts to find flexibility within fixed frameworks, holding moments of collective respite, and reflecting their cyclical transformations.
The piece consists of a prelude and two simultaneous scores. Crespo arrives through open, augmented and inhibited movement, leaving behind sonic artifacts. The first score consists of poems, melodies and sounds exploring Crespo’s relationship to entities outside and within themselves. The second is a moving image score. In 2022, Crespo asked fourteen friends to go on solitary walks in their respective cities and document their perspectives through first-person videos. The juxtaposition of these scores creates a landscape which is at once crowded and withdrawn. In sin rumbo, Crespo invites others into the interruption, the pause, the space between cycles. And in this negotiation with momentum, Crespo searches for something beyond/between the comfort of limits and their innate need to be directionless.
isabel crespo pardo, composition, poetry, moving image, movement
Corinne Lohner, costume designer
Gabi Vanek, lighting designer
Alex Joseph, photography
