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L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 21/05/2016 to 25/05/2016
Presentation :
On 24/05/2016 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Leonor Leal, Tamara López, Úrsula López, Mónica Valenciano, María Muñoz
For five days, these five choreographers and dancers will meet to share their different approaches to movement and composition. After working together on the creation process for the piece JRT, directed by Pedro G. Romero and premiered at the Jerez flamenco festival, they decided to meet to pool the tools of their work, accepting and contrasting their different visions and backgrounds.
During this encounter they will also review, from a new perspective, the choreography and performance in the piece JRT, which will be performed again at the Seville Flamenco Biennale in September this year.
“In JRT, Úrsula López, Tamara López and Leonor Leal aimed to take a look at the work of Julio Romero de Torres, learn about it, interpret it and find a way to communicate his poetry without falling into cliche. Obviously the cliche, or commonplace, more often than not hides a true meaning, a kind of proof that language is capable of inventing reality. So it was a case of travelling to that place, mapping that topology, getting to know the terrain.
The main idea of JRT was to create a choral piece of work and follow up Julio Romero de Torres’ pursuit of flamenco movement. One of the artist’s more important discoveries has to do with the symbolic theatricalisation of the painting, using the canvas not as a window on reality but as a space for symbolic representations, little theatres, moments where the action is frozen and forms a powerful conjuction of meanings. The old flamenco artists used to talk of making an image or setting up a picture but the old choreographical treatises of the Italian renaissance already describe this “image” as the moment of minimum meaning reached by the dance; before and afterwards, what there is cannot be put into words. Pedro G. Romero
Photos: Félix Vázquez
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 21/05/2016 to 25/05/2016
Presentation :
On 24/05/2016 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Leonor Leal, Tamara López, Úrsula López, Mónica Valenciano, María Muñoz
For five days, these five choreographers and dancers will meet to share their different approaches to movement and composition. After working together on the creation process for the piece JRT, directed by Pedro G. Romero and premiered at the Jerez flamenco festival, they decided to meet to pool the tools of their work, accepting and contrasting their different visions and backgrounds.
During this encounter they will also review, from a new perspective, the choreography and performance in the piece JRT, which will be performed again at the Seville Flamenco Biennale in September this year.
“In JRT, Úrsula López, Tamara López and Leonor Leal aimed to take a look at the work of Julio Romero de Torres, learn about it, interpret it and find a way to communicate his poetry without falling into cliche. Obviously the cliche, or commonplace, more often than not hides a true meaning, a kind of proof that language is capable of inventing reality. So it was a case of travelling to that place, mapping that topology, getting to know the terrain.
The main idea of JRT was to create a choral piece of work and follow up Julio Romero de Torres’ pursuit of flamenco movement. One of the artist’s more important discoveries has to do with the symbolic theatricalisation of the painting, using the canvas not as a window on reality but as a space for symbolic representations, little theatres, moments where the action is frozen and forms a powerful conjuction of meanings. The old flamenco artists used to talk of making an image or setting up a picture but the old choreographical treatises of the Italian renaissance already describe this “image” as the moment of minimum meaning reached by the dance; before and afterwards, what there is cannot be put into words. Pedro G. Romero
Photos: Félix Vázquez
