VICTORIA THEATRE
Address: Calle Méndez Núñez, 36, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Contact: 922 29 05 78
Ticket Price: 7,50€
Tickets at: https://elteatrovictoria.com/
EXTENSION TENERIFE 2024 PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 20 OCT // 19:00 h
MONDAY 21 OCT // 21:00 h
…DE DONDE VENGO (10’14”)
Burgos, Spain
Created by > Indalecio Séura
Performer > Yuan Tao
Original Music > Indalecio Séura
“Why do I go back if I know where I come from? Maybe I have a vague hope that something has changed… although the real question is whether I am really stopping living the same thing all the time”.
TENGO QUE (10’)
Mitry-Mory, France
Created & Performed by > Clémence Juglet
Music > Leon Afterbeat “ Tuesday”, “Wednesday”
“Time is no longer just an instrument of evaluation, the measure of excellence. It obsesses us, terrifies us, makes us feel guilty and provokes a sense of urgency. There is only one objective: to make the most of this time, always and still, until we obtain satisfaction, and then, hungry for the best, we repeat this scheme indefinitely. We are trapped in a race against the clock, in which we exhaust ourselves by supplying more and more energy. We give body and soul to work. We keep wanting to master time, to control it, but this is only illusory. We have to maintain an idealised self-image, to the point of ignoring our own value and wealth in favour of work”.
FAN-MADE (10’30”)
Seoul, South Korea
Created by > Min Kim Intérprete
Performed by > Jongwoo Kim
Music > Gustavo Santaolalla “Longing”
“In the Chosun Dynasty, a fan was a symbol for upper class people. In the last period of Chosun, there was no longer a caste system but the nobles still tried to maintain their power and dignity. These so called ‘Yangban’ (nobleman) even carried fans in the winter and were described as ostentatious. The piece ‘Fan-made’ tries to interpret this phenomenon in relation to our lives. Sometimes we try to hold on to things that we should let go. Sometimes we try to have things that we actually don’t need”.
THIS WOMAN (11’45”)
Wenzhou City, China
Created & Performed by > Shuchang Chen
Music > Alva Noto “Un Día”, Guo Sida “So gentle and crazy”
“East Asian women carry discipline throughout their lives, and when you look, you see endless exploitation and restraint. But when life weighs you down and you can’t breathe, you will find an outlet on your own to accept yourself and carry yourself”.
LA GRANJA SPACE
Address: Calle Comodoro Rolín, 1, 38007 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Contact: 922 82 64 56
Ticket Price: 8 – 6,40€
Tickets at: https://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/cultura/ocio/lagranja/
EXTENSION TENERIFE 2024 PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 20 OCT // 21:00 h.
WE SHALL MEET IN THE PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO DARKNESS (12’)
Kassel, Germany
Created > Selene Martello & Dario Wilmington
Performed by > Dario Wilmington & Iris Posthumus
Music > Margaret Noble “Frakture” (Rework by Dario Wilmington)
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct— in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized’. The duet is inspired by the dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell and the surrealistic paintings of Rene Magritte. The dancers are part of an, at appearance, utopian society, in which people’s lives are constantly monitored and unwillingly manipulated. A civilization in which human beings enact a life in order to fulfil a script. It’s a play of knowing and unknowing reality, a ‘game’ of lying to loved ones and hiding huge secrets. ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever’. They can make you say anything, but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you. The main topics are freedom, manipulation, lying, control of the information, rebellion, solidarity, respect, selfishness and betrayal. All topics that are for us very relevant and a big part of our current society. It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human. That’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other”.
TENDER SKIN (10’15”)
Barcelona, Spain
Created by > Albert Garrell
Performed by > Sara Colomino & Ivet Peralta
Music > Travis Lake “I’m Sorry”
“ ‘Tender Skin’ is a work that whispers its way between the past and the present, urging us to understand what enrages us and drives us to combat any sense of occupation we may feel; to consider the bustle of totalitarian thoughts manifesting in our society. In this journey, the search for our own freedom keeps us awake, excited, and hopeful. The central theme of the work revolves around Hanna Arendt’s reflections on knowledge and the rules of the system to which we belong; to shape and transform the utopia of life.”
DEAD MOUSE (13’)
Limassol, Cyprus
Created by> Milena Ugren Koulas
Performed by> Theo Samsworth & Christopher Mills
Original Music> George Koulas & Dafni Koulas
“In extremelife-threatening situations, if fighting or fleeing is impossible, the last biological and instinctual survival strategy is a complete collapse of muscles and energy, or immobility and paralysis known as ‘playing dead’. This biological and instinctual response reduces the fear and pain to limit the suffering, or if the opportunity occurs, creates the capability to fight or flee. In the case of survival, there are different factors and actions that can help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder and help develop resilience. One of them is love and proper support from another person. The choreographic work Dead Mouse belongs to much larger research on trauma and resilience that the choreographer has been conducting for the last five years together with dancers she collaborates with, as well as with the Stylish Junkies team”.
SIMPOSIO (13’)
Monfalcone, Italy
Created & Performed by > Lia Claudia Latini & Giovanni Leonarduzzi
Music > Sigur Ros “Hvert Stefnir”
“From Plato’s story to the present day, a continuous tension in search of the total, unique, complete body. From the ‘hermaphrodites’ narrated in Aristophanes’ speech, supernatural figures, in strength and shape, to the divided body that we have. The attempt at reunion, the tension towards completeness, the relationship never completely ‘satisfied’ because it is now impossible to go back to being a ‘unique body’. A perennial desire for reunion, a desire that animates and moves bodies”.