Dance has the marvellous capacity to underline the beauty or significance of the space that hosts it. In this case, the chosen space is «The Maspalomas Dunes», located in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. Their 400 hectares include an excellent beach, a dune field, a palm tree forest and a brackish lagoon.
MASDANZA DUNES 2022
SATURDAY 29 // THE MASPALOMAS DUNES LOOKOUT POINT // 19,00 h.
JUPITER + JAGUAR (15’)
Valencia – Madrid, Spain
EYAS DANCE PROJECT
Created by > Carlos González & Seth Buckley
Performed by> Paula Montoya & Seth Buckley
Music> William Basinski “4 (E+D) 4 (ER=EPR)”, Gesaffelstein “Destinations”, Gesaffelstein “Out of line”, Arca “Brokeup”
With the support of Festival Cuerpo Romo & Centro Danza Canal.
“ ‘Jupiter + Jaguar’ is a synergy of ferocity, sensuality and play, a journey of freedom and expansion. The work is a powerful, pleasurable and epicurean experience, with a flowing dance, a virtuosic body writing, full of colour, incendiary and electrifying, full of winks to wild and irrigated worlds of seduction.”
CAOS MEDITATIVO, LOS REZOS QUE APRENDÍ CUANDO ERA NIÑO (10’)
Barcelona, Spain
JAVIER GUERRERO COMPAÑÍA DE DANZA
Created by> Javier Guerrero
Performed by> Amanda Rubio & Julia Sanz
Original Music> Yves del Río
Music> Israel Fernández “De fiesta en Jeréz”
With the support of Mercat de les Flors, ICEC (Instituto de Cultura de Barcelona)
“Meditative Chaos is a piece that develops around an unanswered question: what is the act of creation? In theatre, as in life, chaos is a natural space that generates energy and shoots off in directions we cannot understand. We imagine, we conjugate materials, we invent stories and dream new futures in a chaotic act of creation, full of energy and crossed by moments of meditative peace, of space between, of perfect stillness. It was in this way, generating questions that led us to more questions, that we realised that creating, like living, is a chaotic act of resistance to death».
LA MEDIDA QUE NOS HA DE DIVIDIR (17’)
Pamplona, Spain
QABALUM
Created a& Performed by> Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Original Music> Luisillo Kalandraka
With the support of Compañía Nacional de Danza & Danza Contemporánea de Navarra.
“It takes two places to make a border. This space full of parallel lines as it crosses us and which is neither true, nor unique, nor ours. If it is not, we will no longer be the recipient of anything, nor the measure that will divide us. And yet, how could we even have guessed that this was the future?”.
LIMERENCIA (15’)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
NATALIA MEDINA COMPAÑÍA DE DANZA
Created by> Cora Panizza
Performed by> Bárbara Brehcist, Marta Batista & Ángeles Perea
Music> Christian Löffler “Grey Light”, “Vendredi Soir”, Rival Consoles “Sense of it all”
«I fell intensely in love with what I saw through that small screen. I fell into a state of limerence in which ‘neither with you nor without you’ was the mantra that washed over my existence, graceful and wretched at the same time. Turning off that continuous light of stimuli made a black rectangle appear in front of me and then, I could see my own reflection in it. I discovered that what I obsessively observed in others, in their words, gestures and behavior, was nothing but an attempt to discover who ‘I’ was.
SPACE (10’)
Berlin, Germany
FRANTICS DANCE COMPANY
Created by> Carlos Aller
Performed by> Carlos Aller, Juan Tirado, Marco di Nardo & Diego de la Rosa
Original Music> Arbol “The Sea“, Origamibiro “Ada Deane“, Xploding Plastix “The coma that failed“, Tim Hecker “ Music for tundra pt.1“
“Space” is a work which dives directly into the performers’ deepest stories in the midst of a constant flow of events. When we let the unconscious mind manifest itself, old memories and stories from the past are brought forward. Thoughts arrive – we let them collapse and freeze, stretch and accelerate, be destroyed and be rebuilt. The observer witnesses how everything unravels and merges through a unique, energetic, and delicate physicality. ‘Space’ is a journey into the unconscious mind of its performers”.