2023-09-04 10:22:48
On September 16 and 17, the eighth edition of the Blunt Body Festival in the Canal Theaters (Madrid). Which is within the programming of the Dance Channel Festival which will be running until the end of October.
blunt body refers to the wear and tear of the body in contact with the ground. The dance in the city generates a particular type of dancer who is made to the hardness of the asphalt, is rounded like a stone. Malleability is a particularity of contemporary dance, necessary to work in the street, to intervene in spaces and to question the public.
Over the years, the contemporary dance audience has become accustomed to the fact that the so-called “unconventional spaces”, have become a modality that has been well established. Well, as those in charge of organizing this festival indicate in the previous paragraph, it allows the performers to go one step further in developing their versatility as dancers and as creators. Meanwhile, they are reconfiguring how we understand the configuration of a stage space, given that we are talking in this case about a reappropriation of a public space: a place designed to be traveled through or to stay for a while resting in good company, reading a book and stuff like that.
However, the performances of the Cuerpo Romo Festival will be represented in various rooms of the Teatros del Canal, so as not only to meet them again from another place; but also, inviting its viewers to think about what it means that the available scenarios are not used for this type of event. Be that as it may, I will give you the opportunity to program the eighth edition of the Blunt Body Festival:
Saturday, September 16 – 7:00 p.m.:
arnau perez / Single
Interpretation: Arnau Perez
In music, a single is a vinyl format used for commercial distribution, containing the hit song or songs from an LP. That uniqueness has been emphasized and the term has established itself as a personal showcase, highlighting individuality in the “mainstream.” We have become accustomed to associating success or achievement with individuality, establishing ourselves in a development that arises from personal and own search. Right now we are surrounded by people, but aren’t we alone?
Carla Cervantes and Sandra Egido / Are
Interpretation: Carla Cervantes and Sandra Egido
We are dialogue.
A conversation and its ways.
A chaotic tangle full of calm and intensity.
We are the disorder and its beauty.
The silence that invades the body after an explosion.
The strength that resists despair. The wind that comes when we lack air.
We are our scars and the knots we have tied to our chests.
Firmness in the face of complexity and the peace that emerges from undoing.
Only disorder allows order.
Only chaos allows clarity.
Kiko Lopez / Honest
Interpretation: Kiko Lopez
“Honest” is a small fragment in which the protagonist is immersed through the animation of the object. The lamp is an internal challenge to find the most beautiful side of the human. To do this, the object will come to life and will take you on an internal journey through play and rejection, accompanied by a fragile, vulnerable and honest gaze.
A conversation between these two beings will create an environment in which the acceptance of oneself with all its colors will be the ultimate goal.
The artist has wanted to continue investigating and telling small stories with the possibilities that the animation of objects has, in this case, the lamp. The main objective of him is to be honest with him today. A path of acceptance and sincerity with oneself to later show oneself from a place of absolute openness to the public.
The motivation to give life to the object and join it with the movement makes him create a world where he unites the beauty of the theatrical work of masks together with that of movement.
HURyCAN / Asuelto
Direction and choreography: Arthur Bernard-Bazin and Candelaria Antelo Performers: Marton Debreczenyi, Loredana Gargano, Mario Olave and Daniel Garcia.
On the ground, two steps from us, some men and a woman collide, tear each other apart, attract each other, become and unmake each other, as if their very lives were at stake.
Who guides, who commands? Who dares to put the limit?
Terrifying is the game of alliances and disagreements. Abrupt human relationships in search of their future.In intense or light situations, the bodies come to question their roles.
How to find you without covering yourself and discover me without infecting you?
RELEASED does not resolve, it gets entangled in questions, with a necessary urgency to renew.
Improvisation JAM with live music by Jorge da Rocha.
Dancers: Arthur Bernard-Bazin, Tanit Cobas, Kiko López, Alicia Reig and Arnau Pérez.
Sunday September 17- 1:00 p.m. on the red carpet:
Tanit Cobas / The exposure (work in progress) Performer: Tanit Cobas
A dancer enters the space. She is a thinking creature who wants to be looked at. You look at her. Her movements seem easy and natural, like her hair. Will she be tired of pretending herself?
Kiko López and Manel Cabeza / What the trees don’t tell
Direction and choreography: Kiko López and Héctor Plaza Performers: Manel Cabeza and Kiko López
What the trees don’t tell It is a street piece that begins in one of those moments in which you think and if….
It is interesting to see trees as people and people as trees.
How they have seen the world go by and have adapted through time at a slow but steady pace, how trees seem to create their own world within themselves just like people.
Through dance we look at the trees and nature, comparing ourselves to them as individuals, reflecting on the commonalities that we have as living beings.
If you cut a branch, doesn’t a tree bleed?
does not the bark that envelops them show scars?
Don’t their rings tell stories about the passage of time? Have not their roots found a way in the earth?
Merry-go-round space:
I VespersI Giovanni Insaudo / Chrysalis
Interpretation: Sandra Salieti
Withdrawn within his shell, in on himself, cut off from his surroundings for an indefinite amount of time; without reliving anything every day. Is something going on in secret? Is an invisible development taking place? Is something small emerging, whose body only takes wings after innumerable metamorphoses? Does the quarantine make it possible to create artistic products that would not have been created at all in the social hubbub?
The CHRYSALID, the pupa before it becomes a butterfly, has many parallels to the conceptual phase of any creative process, as does the uncomfortable but potentially fertile state of a quarantine: lots going on, but seeing absolutely nothing!Giovanni Insaudo has made his “quarantine” fruitful and has created a poetic choreography based on this comparison. How can a metamorphosis as invisible as that undergone by a butterfly pupa be represented in the body of a dancer?
At first you only see the agonizing convulsions of a small worm in full growth. His greatest dream hovers comfortingly over him: to be an elegant butterfly and soar over the world on his own wings. Changing, twisting and growing, he always clings to this desire and only then can he resist.
Provided with large amounts of food, the creature encloses itself in its cocoon.
As if hypnotized, she only revolves around herself and her desires. And suddenly, the wait comes to an end: layer after layer, the newborn is released and finally releases her wishes, for they have come true; the proud butterfly flutters free.
Roni Chadash / Goofy
Interpretation: Roni Chadash
“He said to the woman… and your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Genesis 3:16
‘Goofy’ in Hebrew means MY body. I wanted to put a question mark on that and check if we could really own our bodies. In our modern reality, where people treat each other like a piece of meat, it becomes even more relevant to me. ‘Goofy’, is an attempt to understand how a body can lose its innocence, and how something so amorphous can transform into the well-known and common creature called “A WOMAN”
OPEN BODY TALKs
Performance by Elías Aguirre and guests, and live music by Jorge da Rocha
Have you ever had a conversation without words? Elías Aguirre invites you to accompany him, together with the musician Jorge da Rocha, in a performance that explores this format of speaking-dancing. The artist will be the main subject, in dialogue through movement with anyone who wants to participate (no previous experience is necessary). After an initial presentation, he will accompany the live music in an improvised way. Each intervention will last approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
Performance- 5:00 p.m. – Espacio Carousel
Elias Aguirre / This is Alfred
Performer: Elias Aguirre
Who is Alfred? Where has he been all this time?
Nobody knows but sometimes it appears to remind us that it exists.
It hides under our feet, behind every wall, in each one of us through our subconscious.
It is rarely seen. Its appearance is fragile and its life outside is limited like that of mayflies.
Live in past, old emotions. His senses and perception of things, of space, of time seem to be different from ours, they don’t follow the same patterns… He still seems to be amazed.
Jorge da Rocha will create the sound environment that accompanies this character in the different stages of his new reality“…we have forgotten the magic formula and we don’t know how to find it; At one time everyone knew her, today only children, madmen and lovers know her.
(Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, Carta de Lord Chandos)
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