The Cockpit Theatre produced a mesmerising, one-off dance presentation by the aptly named Isadora, a French-Tunisian artist and researcher working across movement, sound and installation. She was joined by a vibrant flamenco duo of vocals and guitar. The poetry of the late Spanish writer Federico García Lorca ran as an undercurrent to the performance.
At the edge of ecological collapse, Huella (Spanish for “footprint”), unfolds around an ambiguous waterfall carrying the memory of water, within a liminal landscape of technofossils, somewhere between an altered present and a future archive.
The waterfall narrates its own transformation and the histories of human and more-than-human lives that have inhabited its landscape. A body gradually discovers their traces through undulating movements infused with electronic sounds. What remains of a waterfall when the water itself may have disappeared?
The eco-poetic symbolism comes alive through textural soundscapes that traverse dissonant yet porous bodies and landscapes, exploring the sensory memory of water, its transformation and absence.
The show was part of the Voilà! Theatre Festival, bringing border-busting dramatic art to audiences at eight venues across London. The festival was organised by Dave Wybrow, Katharina Reinthaller and Fae Fichtner.
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Huella, Cockpit Theatre, 8 November 2026
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Text edited from press release by Julio Etchart. All photos by © Julio Etchart
