We presented Poncili Creación’s debut London Performance by at Meanwhile Gardens on Tuesday 9th June.
What Happened?!
On the balmy evening of Tuesday 9th June Gerry's Pompeii were thrilled to host the incredible Poncili Creación's debut London performance in Meanwhile Gardens with improvised music by Papo Cucaracha Vertedero & Orestes Gomez so we could help them to celebrate their 50th anniversary as a community garden (just opposite Gerry's Pompeii). Nearly 400 of you came to witness the pure magic and the absurd of these incredible performance. For those of you who missed it we hope this film will take you there.
*More on Poncili*
Poncili Creación is a performance duo based in Puerto Rico that uses large scale transformative sculpture, raw magic and visceral energy to plunge its audiences into a whimsical nightmare with unpredictable outcomes.
By creating a myriad of flexible sculptures out of found materials, to be animated and brought to life by the human body or parts of it, Poncili Creación transforms primitive puppetry and idol-making into a shape-shifting art form highly effective for bringing impossible ideas into reality.
They present well calibrated intermixtures of ritual and showmanship, they put forth an alternative state of reality where these sculptures, some as small as coins, others as large as buses, become tools for creating wilful power that deforms reality.
Over the past 10 years their spectacles and workshop tours have taken them to Canada, U.S., Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and China.
*Credits*
Performance by Poncili Creación
with improvised music by Papo Cucaracha Vertedero & Orestes Gomez.
Supported & Produced by Gerry's Pompeii.
A huge thank you to the generosity of Hormead Road legends Julia Finlay & Paul Gerry for supporting Poncili Creacion's performance.
Special thanks to:
Carrot Patch & Bean Pig Puppets and the Bristol Experimental Puppet Festival for funding Poncili Creación’s trip to the UK and to Kai Emile for their torch work.
Sotiris Gonis and the RCA for lending their speakers and lights.
Cat Holland and Travis Perkins for donating their rubber matting.
Paula and the Sporting Club de Londres for lending us the chairs.
Rohan, Jose, Chandrika and Hermione and all the team at Meanwhile Gardens for hosting us.
Pete Gershon and Cody Ledvina and the Orange Show for introducing me to Poncili Creación.
Everyone who came and particularly to those who donated for your tickets:
To Maisie Ridpath our ring leader, our interviewer Camden Barratt and to the rest of our fabulous volunteers: Jelisaweta Noack, Chiara Von Lindenfels Crompton, Sohyeon Kim, Mehak Maharia, Aynur Abutalibova, Marta Przygodzka and Harper Ladd.