2023-09-20 20:16:42
From September 21 to 24, the sixteenth and last edition of the Escena Mobile Festival in it Alameda Theater (Seville). It is an internationally renowned festival, where in each piece there is at least one performer with a disability.
On September 19, the presentation of this new edition of the Escena Mobile Festival took place, in which, among other things, its director, Esmeralda Valderrama, announced that this would be the last edition of said festival. She highlighted that they are not an association with large resources, and this added to the number of difficulties they have faced throughout these years, in regards to the adequate granting of subsidies and support by the Seville City Council. , has come to generate an uncomfortable situation for the contracted companies. Being that these deserve to receive a worthy cache; that the dates with the theater be closed with sufficient advance notice, which, on the other hand, in this case depends on the City Council; etc…
Without a doubt, the extinction of this festival will be a notable loss for the cultural offering and development of Seville. In parallel, we must keep in mind that many of these initiatives have been possible thanks to the fact that a group of people with a strong vocation for service have put their quality of life at stake for something that would be the minimum for the performing arts to be maintained. standing. Having reached this situation is not new, since it is enough to remember the last two official statements published by those responsible for the organization of the extinct International Contemporary Dance Festival Month of Danzato realize that many things in the performing arts sector in Seville have been “falling apart” for a few years, and some things are barely preserved.
The type of works that have been represented at the Escena Mobile Festival are not a “rarity intended for a marginal audience”, but rather the ignorance and certain stigma that they overcome the creators and performers who commit to creating pieces with professional people with some type of disability, they make them look like they are doing something “special.” Therefore, I am not talking to you about “experiments” or “new” things, since those who will be on stage are people who have been trained in the performing arts.
Unfortunately, we are still debating whether to call this “inclusive performing arts” or not, something that in no case should distract us when considering whether what we have in front of us is of quality, without falling into complacency and other things like that. What is a fact is that most of these works start from such an unknown point of view, that we will surely find something that our imagination has not even come close to.
First of all, it should be clarified that the twenty-sixth edition of the Escena Mobile Festival will not end on September 24, given that on October 21 at the TNT Theater (Seville) and on November 4 and 5 at the La Fundión Theater, it will be will resume programming. In parallel, I have to warn you that I will not cover what is scheduled for September 22 at the Alameda Theatersince I will premiere with Jaime García Push me!, and it is not appropriate for me to talk about my own piece or that of the other people who perform that day, as I have to play a different role than the one that I have accustomed you to. Without further ado, I give way to the synopses of the pieces that will be performed from September 21 to 24:
September 21, 8 p.m.:
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Meteorite, invasion on the plot (Dance-theater) – Chrome 21 (Seville-Spain)/ Premiere Original idea: LaEva Gallego Co-direction: LaEva Gallego and Veronica Rodriguez Performers: Teo GG, LaEva Gallego, Miguel Lopez
Sole was not so alone. She was alone, when she wanted to be alone. In her plot everything was calm and tranquil, a stillness that did not wait for the glow that, from the sky, suddenly fell next to her feet. A meteorite had crashed right on her land. From that night on, nothing would be the same.
At Cromo21 we usually start from personal experiences and then transform them into an artistic, poetic or metaphorical language. In this case, we want to address the issue of how the arrival of a creature into a person’s life removes and disrupts the entire structure established previously. Those individual spaces that you had arranged at your whim begin to be diminished, they are becoming smaller and smaller and they begin to be occupied by other people and tasks different from the usual ones.
Your picture of times, spaces and routines is dismantled.
September 22, 8 p.m.:
An old house – Light Sound Friends (Seoul- South Korea) / Premiere Choreography: Sunsik Yoo Performers: Sunsik Yoo and Jeonghoon Kim
A man who lives in the city. The mountains are calling! The mountains see a man climb them! Passing through meadows crossing rivers climbing hills The mountain watches! The mountain watches! Summary of the performance: The performance depicts a man climbing a mountain using the image of elastic ropes.
The moon has already set – Yanel Barbeito (Madrid- Spain) Choreography and direction: Yanel Barbeito and Óscar Gómez Performer: Yanel Barbeito and Debreczenyi
In our mind and body, the enemy takes shape to continue the night he represents. That obstinacy is also the weapon, knowledge and tool of those who seek an opposite approach, as a response and intention to a difficult reality. Think, internalize, memorize, say, hum or sing the phrase. ‘The moon has already set’ is to visualize and accept a new day in our self
Spellings – Julia Ballesteros (Seville- Spain)/ Premiere Choreography: Julia Ballesteros Performers: José Manuel Muñoz and Julia Ballesteros.
Light. Innocence. Desire. Love. Responsibility. Forgot. In this piece the performers navigate and experience with their bodies the different stages that make up the life of a human being. It is a journey that shows the evolution that transforms people throughout their existence, a journey that begins when we are born and continues until the end of our days, a journey that travels the cycle of life.
Push me! – Luis Sosa (Seville-Spain) / Premiere Choreography: Luis Sosa Performers: Jaime García and Luis Sosa
Around us there are endless things and people that can go unnoticed. Precisely in both lies those that would give us the necessary impulse to get out of the inertia of our daily life. That is why “dancing them” seems like a fruitful exercise to understand them and interact with them.
contemporary Sisyphus – Marcos Pereira (Madrid-Spain) Choreography and performer: Marcos Pereira
Sisyphus was condemned to climb a rock to a summit from which he always fell, for all eternity. We are our own Sisyphus, we strive to meet expectations throughout our lives in all areas from constant self-demand, which leads us to desperation for perfection.
September 23, 8 p.m.:
Vestige – Inc. Dan Zass (Madrid-Spain) Choreography: María Mellado Performers: Anaïs Vinuesa and Cristina Arauzo
Give permission to openness, transformation and: balance, consonance. Get to the point of living with the other party without excluding them, recognizing them and turning them into an ally. VESTIGIO is a Contemporary Dance piece performed by two dancers, where through the journey of their dance we will invoke memory, imagination, gender, decisions and the beginning and end of stories. VESTIGIO is the beginning of change, the immersion of the journey through which the viewer will immerse themselves through the piece into the world of visual poetry.
PROMÊNA (TRANSFORMATION) – Jaume & Iris (Barcelona-España) Choreography and interpretation: Jaume Girbau and Iris González
Promêna means transformation in Czech, transition from one state to another: Ice, water, air, different forms and yet the same essence. A simple contact and movement and without realizing it: Promêna. We transform movement into dance, into dialogue and this in turn transforms us. Who are we really? Through this constant transformation, our bodies move, dance, intersperse, cohabit, filling the gaps left by the other. The body transmutes and the essence flows. Listen, feel and transform.
essay about nobody – La Tulpa Company (Seville-Spain)/ Premiere Choreography: Manuel Monró Performance: Susana Villegas and Manuel Monró.
(Almost) Nobody asks themselves if what they can see, what they can hear, or what they contain is more real. Let’s say that the bodies on stage respond as a poem or reflection in movement. Here Nobody invites us to be witnesses of a systematic and perceptive deformation of reality. Nobody here dances our own definition of delirium. Psychosis being, among other things, a structural deformation of thought, we could say that dance is a structural deformation of movement. Then, wouldn’t it be necessary for dance to separate psychosis from its entrenched pathological taboo?
Encounters – Denis Santacana (Bilbao-Spain) Direction: Denis Santacana Interpretation and choreography: Denis Santacana and Víctor Fernández
Lost among the people, I observe the branched drawing that has remained at my feet. I refill my glass and look back at the reflection. I imagine a parallel reality in which that figure this time has made another decision. Surreptitiously, I spill the liquid and the drawing has changed again. Mentally planning all my movements, obsessed by the idea that each small action, each decision, each encounter, could be the beginning of an endless number of paths. I lower the glass and observe myself at the same starting point. What is the correct decision? Maybe it’s time to let yourself be carried away by the tide.
The beauty conversation of hands – Alvaro Silva (Cádiz-Spain) / Premiere Choreography: Álvaro Silva Performance: Álvaro Silva and Helliot Baeza
The beauty in the conversation of hands, exchanging rhythms of steps and the passion for dancing with other people. The Beautiful Conversation of Hands takes the history of traditional partner dancing and redefines something that might be more appropriate for the modern era, following the influence of Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, Gender Swapping. sexes and focusing on broader rights for all races.
September 24, 8 p.m.:
Authentic (theater) – Cía. Paladio Arte (Segovia-Spain) Direction: Pablo Tercero and Marta Cantero Assistant director: Rogelio Herrero Interpretation: Adrián Mayorga (La Armonía), Pablo Tercero (La Sombra), Miguel Gómez (La Denuncia), Juan Antonio Martin (ElCare) , José David San Antolín (El Contraste), Rubén Pascual (El Abrazo)
AUTéNTICOS is fun, spontaneous, moving, tender, naive, fresh, revealing and why not profound, where the essence of the human being is shown. How to be authentic? How to start getting rid of those social masks? Modern noise and dizziness prevent us from really thinking, reflecting on who we are and what we really want. Modern life is designed not to leave us even a minute free, to keep us constantly running nowhere, like a hamster on its wheel. We just have to take small pauses of introspection, to correct course from time to time. It is a change that is worth it. AUTéNTICOS takes us to talk about life, death, love, childhood, equality… through authors such as Mario Benedetti Calderón de la Barca, Alfonsina Storni, Lorca, Machado, Shakespeare, Gabriel Celaya and why not Rubén Pascual , one of our actors.
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