(Creation Residence )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 25/04/2016 to 30/04/2016
Presentation :
On 30/04/2016 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Idoia Zabaleta
Collaboration with creation space Azala. TAPETE COMÚN Project
In 1931, in a small salon in the Teatro Español in Madrid, the dancer Antonia Mercé y Luque, La Argentina, was decorated with the Cross of Isabel la Católica by the then President of the Second Spanish Republic, Manuel Azaña. Paradoxically La Argentina, who had in a way personified the feminine figure of the Republic, died on the 18th July 1936 in Bayona, a few hours after the uprising by Franco’s troops against the Republican Government. The night before, Antonia Mercé attended an evening of Basque dances organised by Father Donostia in her honour at the Teatro Novedades in San Sebastián. She had expressed her admiration for “the seriousness, the solemnity and the liturgical air of the folklore of the Basque people” that seem to have bowled her over. La Argentina thus became the first, indirect and unlikely victim of the Spanish civil war.
This “historic story” is the starting point for the proposal for the creation of three dance solos offered by the performance researcher Isabel de Naverán (Bilbao) to Patricia Caballero (Cadiz), Iñaki Azpillaga (San Sebastian/Brussels) and Idoia Zabaleta (Vitoria). Each of us will work on different aspects of this figure.
Envoltura is the title of the evening in which these three dances will be presented, centring around the solo as a dance form with the aim of exploring ways of making other bodies, techniques and times reverberate through an individual body in the present.
During this residency Idoia Zabaleta will focus her creation process on the allegorical image of the Republic as a woman. In the painting Allegory of the Republic (1931-32) by the artist Ignacio Díaz Ruiz de Olano, commissioned by the then mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Teodoro González de Zarate, which can be seen in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Álava, to the right of the central figure of the healthy, sporty looking young woman who represents the Republic there is a woman breast feeding a baby with a pastoral scene in the background and to her left some men pulling chains with an industrial scene in the background. The Republic in the centre, on her right life and on her left the future.
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 25/04/2016 to 30/04/2016
Presentation :
On 30/04/2016 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Idoia Zabaleta
Collaboration with creation space Azala. TAPETE COMÚN Project
In 1931, in a small salon in the Teatro Español in Madrid, the dancer Antonia Mercé y Luque, La Argentina, was decorated with the Cross of Isabel la Católica by the then President of the Second Spanish Republic, Manuel Azaña. Paradoxically La Argentina, who had in a way personified the feminine figure of the Republic, died on the 18th July 1936 in Bayona, a few hours after the uprising by Franco’s troops against the Republican Government. The night before, Antonia Mercé attended an evening of Basque dances organised by Father Donostia in her honour at the Teatro Novedades in San Sebastián. She had expressed her admiration for “the seriousness, the solemnity and the liturgical air of the folklore of the Basque people” that seem to have bowled her over. La Argentina thus became the first, indirect and unlikely victim of the Spanish civil war.
This “historic story” is the starting point for the proposal for the creation of three dance solos offered by the performance researcher Isabel de Naverán (Bilbao) to Patricia Caballero (Cadiz), Iñaki Azpillaga (San Sebastian/Brussels) and Idoia Zabaleta (Vitoria). Each of us will work on different aspects of this figure.
Envoltura is the title of the evening in which these three dances will be presented, centring around the solo as a dance form with the aim of exploring ways of making other bodies, techniques and times reverberate through an individual body in the present.
During this residency Idoia Zabaleta will focus her creation process on the allegorical image of the Republic as a woman. In the painting Allegory of the Republic (1931-32) by the artist Ignacio Díaz Ruiz de Olano, commissioned by the then mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Teodoro González de Zarate, which can be seen in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Álava, to the right of the central figure of the healthy, sporty looking young woman who represents the Republic there is a woman breast feeding a baby with a pastoral scene in the background and to her left some men pulling chains with an industrial scene in the background. The Republic in the centre, on her right life and on her left the future.
