Sandpit
Premiere: 6.-7.11.2025 WUK. Wien (AT)
Let’s hit the Sandpit! Sand, a material that can create diverse forms and simultaneously erase them, becomes in Sandpit a substance from which an infinite number of stories and images can emerge. It
conceals and reveals, leaving only traces visible.
In Sandpit, Simone Lorenzo Benini and Miriam Budzáková turn sand into a metaphor for the body, a vessel of infinite possibilities, exploring the ambiguity of our memories, which are often vague
and blend with imagination, fears and desires. The body becomes a medium through which memories come to life. Those memories do not simply resurface; they transform and create desires, the libido,
new identities and alter egos that we all carry inside us but seldom express. Here, sand becomes a symbolic tool for this transformation. Memories transform into new possibilities of being, merging the
past and the present, adopting a variety of ambiguous shapes, drawing on the subconscious and allowing energies, emotions, images and fantasies to surface.
Initial idea: Simone Lorenzo Benini
Creation and performance: Miriam Budzáková, Simone Lorenzo Benini
Dramaturgical consultant Julischka Stengele
A co-production by Bears in the Park, WUK performing arts, brut Wien and AiEP.
With support from Anticorpi XL – ResiDance XL, Circuito CLAPS – Intercettazioni – Residency center Lombardia, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Teatro Petrella di Longiano and Iter Culture – Teatri Riflessi.
