2024-02-06 23:07:12
Next February 10 they will be performed at the Hall ZM (Sevilla), Precarious of Ix Butoh Ritual Dance Theater / Coco Villarreal y Walking Glue of Caris Taplin. Pieces that will be the “highlight” of a weekend full of butoh dance in Seville.
Coco Villarreal born in Mexico City. There she studied operatic singing at the National Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Literature and Theater at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has experienced professional theater and music work since she was 16 years old, collaborating on various proposals from opera to dance and contemporary theater. She has worked for international theater and dance companies such as Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes (Mexico), Vangeline Theater (USA), De Nuit Comme De tour (Switzerland), Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (Colombia), Compañía Patricia Guerrero (Spain).
Coco has directed IX-Butoh Ritual Dance and Theater (originally called Teatro Prieto) since 2009. Performing, directing and teaching on various stages and festivals in Mexico, Colombia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Indonesia, Honduras and Spain. As a teacher, Coco guided hundreds of students from different cultures and backgrounds. His goal is to reconnect our daily lives with the human essence of freedom, creativity, expression and healing through our voice and body movement.
He has been dancing butoh since he was 19, learning from Diego Piñón, director of Body Ritual Movement who was a disciple of Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno for many years in Japan. Coco also studied with Akira Kassai, Natsue Nakajima, Ken Mai, Yuko Kaseki among others. Although his work is inspired by years of contact and training with Diego combined with Martial Arts, Yoga, body training, singing and Meditation
He won the “Best Stage Proposal” award in 2003 during the XI National University Theater Festival in Mexico.
The approach you work with Coco Villarreal It is one of many examples of what is often said: “every teacher has his or her little book.” And I’m not just taking it for granted that butoh dance itself is a discipline that is not codified like, for example, classical dance; but also that he does not hide that he understands his dance as a tool that enhances his vital and professional processes. I’m talking to you about a dancer, teacher and creator with such magnetism and confidence in what he does that seeing him on stage guarantees that we expand our way of understanding a performance piece.
In fact, from Friday, February 9 to Sunday, February 11, he will be teaching a workshop in Seville called: «“The jaguar, the root and the shadow is an alchemical process through the art of butoh,” A bodily journey to the deep well of the unconscious to search for stars.
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Coco Villarreal’s gifts as a musician and his thoroughly trained body endorse him as a professional who deserves to be observed carefully, regardless of the tradition he comes from. Along these lines, I remember that in one of his last pieces, Bodhi, he deployed on stage with the musician Gul, everything he had in his hands at that moment. Something that made it clear to me that a work based on well-structured improvisation can also be a way to make a performance unique and invaluable. On this occasion, he will share the bill with the British dancer Caris Taplin con Walking Glue, last minute surprise that will surely make that night at the ZM Room unforgettable. Without further ado, I give way to the synopses of Precarious and of Walking Glue:
Precarious
My Life has always hung on a thin and invisible thread that holds me precariously.
“Precarious” is a tribute to my own instability and the search for balance.
To comfort in discomfort. To growth in restriction…
Walking Glue
A flickering jelly of new particles, a lump of gold in the intestines. Meanwhile, the woman with something bitter in her throat wastes her afternoons waiting for her guests.
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