2024-02-07 17:30:22
What was and will not return takes the form of a dance contaminated by time and memory Speechthe award-winning show that Lali Ayguadé brings this Saturday to the Theater of Salt. the piece, Max Award for Best Choreography and Best Dance Performer of 2023brings to the stage the beauty and fragility of a past of which almost nothing remains, with two dancers, Ayguadé herself and Lisard Tranis -also a finalist at the Max for this production-, playing two characters who cling to life, who they take care of each other, love each other and despair among sofas, refrigerators and the remains of an everyday life that has vanished.
Ayuadé, one of the most international names in Catalan dance, has devised a choreography that invites reimagining to feel again among the ruins, “the obvious ones, those of the house in ruins that rises on the stage, but also those of memory, of what we remember and which often do not coincide with reality».
And because, he explains, memory is the basis of Speecha piece built from‘scenes with memories that are awakened through objects, clothes, the sound of a television or an old vinyl record.
“It’s a piece with two very defined characters and a lot of contact between them, there’s even an invented tango”, he goes on, adding that they’ve worked on “a very harmonious movement, nothing cut”. “Although I sometimes like to play with isolating the body, here we play a lot with a movement as if it were water, very linked», he assures.
Around the world
Formed between the Theater Institute and the Belgian school PARTS, directed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, Ayguadé has worked in Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Korea and England, where she was nominated for best dancer and best creator at the Critics’ Awards from London
Main actress of the short film Time Codeawarded at the Cannes festival, the Gaudí and Goya awards and a finalist at the Oscars and director of her own company since 2013 after working with Marcos Morau (La Veronal), Baron d’Evel or Roberto Olivanis on its own merits one of our great dancers and choreographers.
Speech is his return to the stage after the trilogy he dedicated to the search for identity integrated by Kokoro, iU an Mi i Hidden, a montage with six performers.
Ayguadé closes the trilogy about identity with a virtual “Hidden”.
«I really wanted to dance an hour show with Lisard Tranis again and to do it with the collaborators who have been part of the trilogy», explains the artist, who in Runa has again counted on some of his usual accomplices, such as the playwright Jordi Oriol; set designer Martina Cabanes; Conchita Pons, who has designed lighting that integrates the lights as part of the scenography or Ferran Casanova in the costumes, who has been key to “helping to transform the body and understand it through clothes”.
Ayguadé, who before passing through Salt spent a few days in Costa Rica with the show Together to get there, who is halfway signed with Akira Yoshida, is already thinking about a new project. It will be a larger piece than Hiddenwith the same performers and adding new ones, in which she will create and direct but not dance.
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