Esclaracer
By Verónica Santiago Moniello (Dance) & Phil Moffa (Music)
Esclarecer, is an action to follow the inertia existent in the architecture of the circle. Our idea was formed when discussing the cyclical nature of things, like round shapes, seasons, the progression of one form of matter into another, and the life cycle. In Esclarecer, we question the place where reality is born.
What is not real?
Going around the circle as a direct dance to take space, and a curvilinear movement to clear up the traces - a dispossession that makes me reach to the water. The liquid is the fluid system that makes visible the transit, the arrival, and the one that migrates.
It is a ritual?
Perhaps it is a passage to enter and exit the imagination, a display of multiple places of origin, or a return home to the infinite.
Concept by Verónica Santiago Moniello & Phil Moffa
Dance and Choreography — Verónica Santiago Moniello
Music, Camera, and Editing — Phil Moffa
Color Grade and Camera Assistant — Mike Amacio
About the Artists
Verónica Santiago Moniello
Verónica is a Venezuelan choreographer and dancer currently residing between the south of México and New York. She holds an M.F.A. Master of Fine Arts in the Theatre & Dance Program at UCSD, the University of California San Diego (U.S.) and a B.A. in Dance Making by the Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen (Germany), where she was part of Pina Bausch’s “Le Sacre Du Printemps” repertoire. Her practice is inspired by the spatial disorientation in dialogue with memory, notions like birth, antagonistic subjects of resistance and utopian bodies permeated with dreams. Her current approach expresses the relationship between absence versus alkaline practices: between beneficial acts, rituals and dances. Her projects have been presented in Mexico, Venezuela, Belize, Germany, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, Korea and the U.S. Ongoing research “The Body that has Been Possessed” awarded by the Tinker Fellowship, CILAS (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies) and The Friends of California, Teatro La Rendija, tumàka't Dance Company, Fonca and RedAlterna in Mérida-Yucatán, Mexico and Fundación Andrógino in Venezuela
Phil Moffa
Electronic musician, producer, and professor Phil Moffa is also the owner/operator of Butcha Sound Studios in New York City. Moffa has performed internationally for years and has contributed his talents to the creation of hundreds of records as recordist, producer, mixer, and mastering engineer. Moffa is one half of Lost Souls of Saturn with Seth Troxler. In 2019, they released their debut eponymous album on R&S Records to critical acclaim and installed their multimedia piece 'Transmission' in Basel, Switzerland and at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Since 2004, Moffa has been a faculty member at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, teaching future generations of studio producers. In addition to numerous musical endeavours, Moffa is also a multimedia and installation artist. In 2020, Phil started the Butcha Sound Records imprint to release original works of both his music and art. Moffa is a lifelong NYC resident and vinyl record collector. http://philmoffa.com