Shows

Offering for a monster
performance

Tamara Cubas │Uruguay

Start Date: 31-05-2025 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)
End Date: 31-05-2025 - 22:00 (21:00 CET)Start Date: 01-06-2025 - 21:00 (20:00 CET)
End Date: 01-06-2025 - 22:00 (21:00 CET)

Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
31 May and 1 June, 21:00

Offering for a monster
by Tamara Cubas

Youth is a clash between the past, present, and future. The result of that impact is a force, a monstrous force.

The monster, that which does not yet exist, cannot be defined by its form, or its form is an impossible combination to configure beforehand. It is to open oneself to the abyss of this new formulation that must necessarily emerge.

The body that is left. The process of liberating the body and being, lightening up for the next journey. The world that enters. The world must hurt for the body to react. Opening to the world, with all its complexity. Developing and training the desire of the other. Practicing autonomy. Enhancing the capacity to be affected by another one, and by the otherness. Emotional negotiation as a form of interrelation and a possibility to act in common.

Offering the new body. An open, vulnerable, fragile body, as a way of facing what is to come.
The piece is presented as a score of actions where each participant must design, integrate, and negotiate with others.

In the anteroom, an exhibition of portraits created from the exercise carried out in the workshop is presented, with the premise of lightening the being. The work is a ritual between that old body and the new body, the latter offered to the audience at the epilogue of the work. Gradually, the young bodies begin dismantling what is established to become another body, fractal, overlapped, powerful. Throughout this ritual between the two bodies, the piece incorporates worlds, the collective, the past, the other.

The audience faces a group of young people who dare to open themselves to the world and its complexity, to burst with desire, to provoke movement, to offer us the exercise of surrendering to the alteration they provoke in us.

Our task: to be ready to have the table turned, to coexist with them, to try to understand them, to give them space, to support them, to push them, to receive them, to listen to them, to care for them.

Duration: 60΄

Following the performance (31/5), a discussion with the audience will take place, moderated by Melina Garbi (Actress).
The discussion will be accompanied by simultaneous interpretation in Greek Sign Language.

Offering for a monster
by Tamara Cubas

Direction/Choreography/ Concept: Tamara Cubas
General and Artistic Production: Alicia Laguna

On stage:
Ismini Boboli, Athina Filoxenidou, Dimitris Kafkas, Eirini Karypidou, Giota Kouitzoglou, Evangelia Mamalioga, Maria Matsika, Panagiotis Matziris, Era Mpoikou, Danae Palla, Eleni Panagiotidou, Sofia Papazoglou, Kyriakos Stefanidis

Offering for a Monster will be created by students of acting, participating in Tamara Cuba’s workshop, which will take place from May 22 to 31, as part of the 6^th International Forest Festival.

Tamara Cubas
Tamara Cubas (1972) is an Uruguayan artist who primarily works in the performing arts, while also engaging with media such as performance and installation. Her practice always operates through the body and relationships.

She explores the performative body in a constant search for bodily autonomy, developing her own concepts such as the Aesthetics of Precarity. She investigates the power of Latin American bodies, charged with memory, history, and specific experiences, and their ongoing decolonizing quest.

Her work often involves non-artistic populations and communities, addressing themes such as History, Homeland, Power, the Political, interpersonal relationships, heterogeneity, and dissent.

Cubas explores personal storytelling—her own and others’—as a strategy to contrast and resist dominant narratives. Her thinking is grounded in personal experiences shaped by the political history of Uruguay, such as the military dictatorship—topics she addresses in both stage and visual works.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Fine Arts at the University of the Republic of Uruguay (IENBA/UDELAR), studied contemporary dance at the Contradanza School in Montevideo, and holds a Master’s in Art and Technology from the School of the Arts (EMMA) in Utrecht, Netherlands, where she was awarded the EMMA Award for Image & Technology.