Patio Pileta - Innenhofpool / Fringify - Independent Arts Festival Hamburg

In the 1970s, an inexpensive, dismountable pool called the Pelopincho revolutionized the summers in Argentina for those who couldn't go on holiday. To this day, it can still be found on terraces, in gardens and courtyards – a symbol of everyday urban culture. The performance follows the traces of performer Gabriela Turano's childhood in the 1990s in a suburb of Buenos Aires to her current life in Berlin. What happens when memories of summer days in the pool are evoked? How can nostalgia become an act of the present?

With sensitivity and humour, the performance tells of migration, identity and the contradictions of voluntary emigration. With the Pelopincho at its centre, the piece gives space to the different levels of meaning that an object can take on in the course of our lives.

Direction: Vöcks de Schwindt | Performance: Gabriela Turano | Text: Gabriela Turano & Federico Vöcks de Schwindt | Costume: Lena Loy | Space & Light design: Wenzel Vöcks de Schwindt | Music: Ignacio Villa | A production by Vöcks de Schwindt.