2023-05-23 00:25:56
The next 2, 3 and 4 June will be held in the Canal Theaters (Madrid), the tenth exhibition of public beta. All this within the programming of the 38th Madrid Dance Festival.
One of several reasons why I try to leave the city of Seville from time to time to cover shows or do interviews, is to attest that things are happening beyond our cities of residence. I am thinking, more specifically, of programs that transcend the calls to which dance professionals apply, or those issues that include well-known companies that operate in national and international arenas. Of course, the public beta sample is a good example of this. This is: Approaching what is moving at a national and international level outside of the “big names”, helps to understand what are the trends that have managed to establish themselves, or why not say it, those that are to come. Since it is not ruled out that those who have been selected to act in one of the Public Beta samples are about to receive the recognition they deserve.
In parallel, Public Beta offers a small space to what they call Pro-Beta, where those selected manage to expose something they have been working on in recent times. An exercise that allows them to probe how this idea works before an audience, while they put themselves in a position to create with a specific date in which to respond to a series of objectives.
The above, together with how delighted I was to witness and cover the ninth edition of the Public Beta sample, has pushed me to repeat. Really, there is a festive and expectant atmosphere, in which the exchanges between the professionals in the game are consummated when they see the pieces of their fellow players. Without further ado, I give way to the pieces that will make up the tenth edition of the Public Beta sample:
Pilar Villanueva – Anteroom. “One day… another day” / MADRID
Through dance I learned that what you dance today you will not dance the same tomorrow. Just like the days, the moments… Which leads me to become aware that, every time, even what seems the same to us, is the same but it is not the same. This generates many different sensations and emotions in each one. But the important thing is to realize that everything is new, that everything is yet to be done, to be lived. With this thought we created this Prelude to our X Anniversary, where three artists capture our sensations and emotions. From the audiovisual at the entrance, to the interaction with the actors and the arrival on stage where the tone of the music and the voice of the public treated by a DJ, generate each time, each moment, each function, a unique, special and especial experience. unrepeatable… Like life itself.
- Original idea and choreography: Pilar Villanueva
- DJ: Jose Sala (Josephine’ Soundscapes)
- Music: Josephine’ Soundscapes & Frank Sinatra
- They dance: Rubinel Ortiz, Olaya Rodriguez, Sara Luquero, Alberto Alonso
Lazaro Batista – “Evidence” / CUBA
- Interpreter: Lazaro Batista
- Name of the company: Prisma Dance Theatre
- Music: Without music
Synopsis: “Showing the existence of living beings in a body from an evolutionary and creationist point of view, having the human being as the cornerstone of history”.
Mehdi Berdai- “Chaos” / SWISS
- Choreography: Mehdi Berdai
- Co-choreography: Héloïse Marcacci
- Interpreters: Mehdi Berdai and Léna Bagutti
- Name of the company: Le Lokart
- Music: Georg Friedrich Handel, Cara Sposa.
Synopsis: “From our devastating and internal struggles, the pulse of life resounds. In its wake, chaos emerges like the great void, a space in which time is distorted and becomes matter in perpetual renewal. This duet, both pictorial and choreographic, is like a breather, like a plunge into the muffled screams of our contained anger. The evocation of the fight through fantasized moments, sometimes sublimated, made of deep fears and desires, is presented here in dance through the intimacy of slowness.
Photo: Albiru Muriel
Sara Fernandez- “Balm Interrupted” / MADRID
- Choreography: Sara Fernandez Lopez
- choreographic assistant: Pau Aran
- Interpreter: Sara Fernandez
- Music: Guadalupe Pineda (Story of a love), Hermanos Gutiérrez (El Jardín), Bird Eater (Cihuateteo), Roberto Goyeneche Atilio Stampone and his atypical orchestra (Make-up).
Synopsis: “At that time I found a strange refuge. By “chance”, as they say. But such coincidences do not exist. When someone urgently needs something and finds it, it is not by chance that they are provided, but by themselves. One’s own desire and one’s own need lead to it”.
Tania Garrido & Eva Alonso – “C o n v e r g e n c i a s” / MADRID
- Choreography: Eva Alonso and Tania Garrido
- interpreters: Eva Alonso and Tania Garrido
- Music: Untravel, de Rival Consoles.
Synopsis: CONVERGENCIAS is a landscape piece that unfolds between time and space almost pictorially. Two female bodies cross the stage in a radical way, carving it into a single diagonal. Each body unfolds in the alien the dance of a single common body that develops through a wave of memories, desires and torsos that explore spirals
Danielle Huyghe – “Into the blue” / NETHERLANDS
- Choreography: Danielle Huyghé
- Interpreters: Danielle Huyghe & Jille Kupers
- Music: Max Crook
Synopsis: “What is the effect of lack of sleep on emotional and physical functioning? Stress, insomnia, loneliness and isolation. These are the feelings that “Into the blue” explores, connecting, in a suffocating performance that mixes cinema and dance, with the claustrophobic times in which humanity finds itself”.
Photo: Alina Fejzo
Roberta Maimone & Roberta Riontino- “ENFANTS” / ITALY
- Choreography: Roberta Maimone & Roberta Riontino
- Interpreters: Roberta Maimone & Roberta Riontino
- Music: Diseño original Clara Cozzolino; Old School is for lovers- DJ Shut feat Morningstar; Alleviate- ASADI; Geisha- UKI
Synopsis: “ENFANTS was born organically, from the pure desire for union and fun. The idea is to bring a smile to the audience and artists alike, creating a moment of reflection on their approach to daily life, opposing adulthood to the childish search for freedom and joy.
Alejandro Moya – “LUCERO” / MADRID
- Choreography: Alejandro Moya
- Interpreter: Alejandro Moya
- Music: Luis Miguel Cobo
Synopsis: “Lucero, is a meeting, a rite, an intimate relationship between a man and a symbol. A search for the roots and a way of positioning oneself in relation to them”.
Photo: Juan Antonio Gámez
Lucía Vázquez – “About Bunny” / SEVILLE
- Choreography: Lucia Vazquez
- Interpreters: Lucia Vazquez and Miguel Marin
- Music: Miguel Marin
Synopsis: “About Bunny” is a song to the joy and pain of loving passion, overflowing with intense and delicate sensuality. A show between the borders of dance and contemporary theater; between the explicit and the suggestion; In a society where loving someone is becoming something only suitable for the brave, there are Bunny Woman and Bunny Man who will establish a conversation for two”.
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