MASDANZA presents the work of international choreographers in this program dedicated to creations made by men. Sensitivity, creativity, and a male perspective.
MASDANZA ELLOS PROGRAM 2023
SATURDAY SEPT 30 / GUINIGUADA THEATRE / 20,00 h
IT’S NOT MY BODY – Chapter 3.5 (15’)
Hong Kong
Created & Performed by > TAN-KI WONG
Original Music > Wolff Bergen & Tan-ki Wong.
Sound Design & Editing > Tan-ki Wong.
«Since 2014, the IT’S NOT MY BODY series has been a game of chess for Tan-Ki Wong. Wrestling with his own shadow, the dancer’s every move, pause and limbo on stage construct a strong proposition about his dance life. 8 years have passed and IT’S NOT MY BODY comes to chapter 3.5, still pressing on a burning question for a dancer: to be or not to be?».
- Winner of the MASDANZA Award at the Hong Kong Dance Exchange Festival 2022.
NEREO AHOGÁNDOSE (15’)
Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
Created & Performed by > JOAQUÍN COLLADO
Mica Levi “Alien Loop”.
«How does the surrounding world shape our bodies and how can we talk about it? Faced with a world where it has no place, Nereo’s drowning proposes a clumsy and liquid body that is beaten and twisted in a continuous (and pathetic) dance. From this alienated social fiction, the piece proposes a reflection on the perishability and finiteness of the matter. And you, what will you get out of my tomorrow?».
- Winner Jury Prize in the Solo Contest 23MASDANZA, 2018.
WHISPER (10’)
Taipei, Taiwán / Taipei, Taiwan
Created & Performed by > CHEN CHI-HSUN
Music > KEYNVOR & Sebastián Plano “Marazion (50.127932,-5.474548)”; Julia Kent “Invitation to the Voyage”.
«Deep in the night there is an empty corner where a figure in solitude and the disorientation in thoughts were left into shadows. Insulating from all else, what is left to remain? I – myself – become every right and wrong».
- Winner of the MASDANZA AWARD at STRAY BIRDS DANCE PLATFORM 2022, Taiwan.
PLATA (15’)
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Madrid, Spain
Created & Performed by> DANIEL ABREU
Music > Ralph Vaughan Williams «Five Mystical Songs».
«The promise of the good life is on a billboard. There is an offer of a better place waiting for us and smiling at us. But I don’t know if this idea implies that every desired place is more or less the same, the piece of a puzzle without form. This dance that I represent here is an abstraction of the gaps that remain before what I imagine. Behind each one is what seems to complete a cycle. I propose a noble dance, transitional, bright white, soft, ductile and malleable as silver. A dance that seeks emptiness, love, and water».
ORDINARY PEOPLE (15’)
Berlin, Germany
FRANTICS DANCE COMPANY
Created & Performed by > Juan Tirado & Marco Di Nardo
Music > Nitefold “Oxygen burst”; Mossy “Meeting Point”; Ben Frost “Theory of Machines”.
«Together before birth / Hopelessly separated / Two autonomous beings / Effortlessly harmonized. Unable to escape fate / Their maxim, competition / A constant long-distance race / Until the finish line, no rendition».