2024 Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany
A WAKE is an interdisicplinary solo work and memorial service for Catalina Trezza - Donato’s maternal grandmother with Alzheimer’s disease. Presented in 5 Acts, it is a personal outpour of things that emerge when grieving the healthy mind and identity of a loved one. Flagged by massive subwoofers, A WAKE is set to an original low frequency score by Stefanie Egedy. Donato’s body shrinks, breaks, dissociates, disintegrates and tangles in a surreal dreamlike landscape of memory. In the final act, she works vigorously to knead dough as an offering and ode to her grandmother’s cooking: Trezza’s most repetitive and monumental channel of love.
Direction, Choreography, Performance: Amanda Donato | Production Management: Juan Paulo “JP” Deapera | Creative Production Support: Yu Bai | Dramaturgy: Rubén Nsue, Juan Paulo “JP” Deapera, Alvin Collantes | Original Sound Score: Stefanie Egedy | Lighting Design: MXM | Costume Design: Maximilian Franz-Josef Melzel | Creative Design: Darlene Huynh | Promotional Photography: Isabelle Östlund