One night at the golden bar

A sung statement which reveals the vulnerability of a body that loves in permanent tension, trapped between queer and romantic discourse.

In One night at the golden bar, Alberto Cortés reveals himself vulnerably to find beauty in a cheesy, affected, outdated and queer declaration of love. Ecstasy and romance underlie a sung musicality that highlights the fragility and affection from a queer perspective. Through an angel from an imagined heaven, Cortés wonders how we can protect fragile bodies when they are simultaneously in a place both vulnerable and monstrous.  

“This is about what fire, desire and love do to my body when I think about other men,” he says. Along the way, all the unresolved rifts that are part of the incomprehensibility of romance appear. The tensions between the theories we formulate to find new ways to relate to male toxicity and heteronormativity, and at the same time the ability to get sick with desire for The Man Who Plows the Earth. That gap is this performance.

In Spanish (with English surtitles)
Duration: 60 minutes

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