2023-07-05 19:00:47
To what extent is chasing a dream going to give meaning to our lives, or are we really looking for a more conceivable way of waiting for death? How to survive, ontologically, in a world in which the idea of ”I” Is it poisoned by autofictions that are designed to “flee forward”, when, let’s say, things get complicated? Where is the vocation to do something and the hope in all this? These and more questions were unavoidable for me to approach after having seen Manual to build a dream.
The members of this Andalusian company presented us with a succession of scenes in which the subtext what is said and what is happening is the most important thing. Without forgetting that he himself still leaves the door open to more interpretations for those viewers who are inclined to let their imagination run wild and the ability to make poetry and philosophy of whatever it is. So much so, that from each scene of this piece a “seed” could be extracted to carry out a new work. And even with everything, it seems that Manual to build a dream it goes round and round around the same thing, without seeming to progress: Something like the subject not throwing himself into living his own life, thinking about those great aphorisms that have constituted the imaginary of our western culture, remain in a mere entertainment for our intellect. Behold, the members of The Zaranda use endless literary resources to represent and “go down to earth”, everything that happens to us as human beings.
Is it possible that our human condition does not allow us to function in other types of parameters, or on the contrary, it is possible to constitute a new “vocabulary” and “grammar” to rethink what we have had up to now before our very eyes?… Without a doubt Undoubtedly, one can continue asking questions ad infinitum, but this does not guarantee that we are getting closer to the answers that would comfort us, and even more so, why continue living. Of course, Eusebio Calonge He has returned to direct one of those jobs in which his humor is rooted in taking life seriously. And not as if this were a tragedy or a sentence in which we find ourselves with little room for manoeuvre, but as a space in which to exercise performative acts is where we exercise our freedom, starting with that of expanding our ability to choose.
Once again, the movement is outlined as the only perceiving constant in which we can support ourselves, the rest would lead us to trip over our own heels, trying to build a “natural science” of something so difficult to quantify, as is the live. And by that I don’t mean that the hope act as the “fuel” that allows us to continue, but we have to redefine it in a practical way. Under the foundation that heading towards a certain direction is a means to achieve our emancipation as subjects, not the “route” to which we have invested our entire company. Then come the disappointments, the feeling of emptiness after having, supposedly, longed for, etc… The fact is that these symptoms should serve as a warning, that looking for a “meaning in life” places us in notoriously difficult terrain. flimsy.
As regards the staging of Manual to build a dreamI would highlight that the lighting design as the intention with which the objects that were on stage were manipulated by Gaspar Campuzano, Enrique Bustos and Francisco Sánchez, It evoked that, we human beings, we develop in a gloomy and hostile environment, in which getting to live another type of life means digging upwards, and not with the guarantee that “everything will be better”, but certainly things will be otherwise. Thus, the subject takes responsibility for his own life and is not blaming / victimizing himself for things that do not end up working, despite his efforts. What I want to get to is that these professionals made everything available to us, the viewers, so that even seeing this work would take us out of looking for “distractions” that would divert us from confronting what we have been dealing with since the day we fell into consciousness that we are alive
Definitely, Manual to build a dream It seems to me an enigmatic and magical work, done with a rigor and dedication on the part of the professionals involved, which overwhelms one. Well, these professionals are not for complacency or to get “easy applause”, they are very clear about what their function and task should be when putting something on stage. And with that starting point, at least they dignify their environment.
Hiraeth from C-Art Dance and the long road it takes to compose a scenic piece for the audience as a whole
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