Performance Description
Vulnus emerges from a deep research process on human sexuality, translated into movement and transformed into embodied storytelling.
Told through the experience of a woman, the piece gives shape to emotions many of us have felt in silence, in sorrow, or in secret. You may connect with fragments of her story, with all of it, or perhaps with none. The invitation is open.
This is a story about how the physical body expresses what memory holds onto, exploring sexuality and its traumas, the weight of generational inheritance, the cycles a woman is made to live without choice, and the insecurities, self-doubt, and judgment imposed by others and internalized within.
How do these layers shape the way we make sexual or emotional choices?
Can we truly feel free to be vulnerable?
When someone is not sexually available, what lies behind that silence?
Vulnus is an ode to vulnerability, the kind that carries fear, emptiness, shame, and exhaustion.
What happens when you’re expected to be strong, but your body refuses to comply?
The audience is invited to feel, to connect, to observe, to reflect.
This piece reaches out to each person with the hope that they will connect in their own way — from a place of empathy and awareness. It is an invitation to care, to reflect, and to become more conscious of how sexual education, or the lack of it, shapes our lives and our relationships.
The ending carries a quiet form of happiness: for the first time, she decides how to use her body — and feels free not to use it in a sexual way at all.
Do you feel like a witness?
Or part of the story?
Do you feel guilty?
What role would you take in this narrative?
Event Details
The premiere of Vulnus invites audiences into an intimate and visceral exploration of vulnerability, sexuality, and the raw intersections between body, desire, and healing. The performance lasts between 50 minutes and 1 hour and will be followed by a Post-Experience Gathering: an open moment where audiences can explore installations born from our deep research process and recent public explorations.
The evening concludes with a Q&A session featuring director Melania Delli Compagni, sexologist Marina Pascual Pujó, and performer Claudia Nieto Martín. An opportunity to dive deeper into the creative and emotional landscape of Vulnus.