(Creation Residence - Associate Project 2017-2018 )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 25/09/2017 to 30/09/2017
Presentation :
On 29/09/2017 at 21:00 in Teatre Ateneu (Celrà)
Marta Izquierdo
( Marta Izquierdo, María Muñoz )
In collaboration with the Teatre Ateneu de Celrà
For a long time the French-Spanish border has been a phantom or abstract line of geographical separation. But it is also a very concrete natural frontier: the Pyrenees. As a voluntary exile in France for the past fifteen years, Marta Izquierdo Muñoz explores this frontier in this new project, travelling along it physically, taking an interest in its landscape and legends. Her choreographic imagination takes inspiration from the Pyrenees, that natural frontier haunted by tragic migrations like that of Republican exiles after the Spanish Civil War.
Marta Izquierdo’s choreography includes a basic object, a stick: an attribute of a walker, animal tamer, fighter or buffoon that allows her to link folk dances from both sides of the Pyrenees. The Catalan stick dance (ball de bastons), which dates back to 1151, is danced by men and incorporates both warlike and farming traditions. The Provencale stick dance (l’arlequine) is danced by women as a magical-religious ritual to awaken the powers of the earth.
Marta Izquierdo will invite La Fal.lera Gironina or l’Esbart d’Olot to various residencies and performances to provide, with their stick dances, an encounter between fiction and real life.
María Muñoz, co-director of Mal Pelo and L’animal a l’esquena, will collaborate artistically on Practice Makes Perfect.
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 25/09/2017 to 30/09/2017
Presentation :
On 29/09/2017 at 21:00 in Teatre Ateneu (Celrà)
Marta Izquierdo
( Marta Izquierdo, María Muñoz )
In collaboration with the Teatre Ateneu de Celrà
For a long time the French-Spanish border has been a phantom or abstract line of geographical separation. But it is also a very concrete natural frontier: the Pyrenees. As a voluntary exile in France for the past fifteen years, Marta Izquierdo Muñoz explores this frontier in this new project, travelling along it physically, taking an interest in its landscape and legends. Her choreographic imagination takes inspiration from the Pyrenees, that natural frontier haunted by tragic migrations like that of Republican exiles after the Spanish Civil War.
Marta Izquierdo’s choreography includes a basic object, a stick: an attribute of a walker, animal tamer, fighter or buffoon that allows her to link folk dances from both sides of the Pyrenees. The Catalan stick dance (ball de bastons), which dates back to 1151, is danced by men and incorporates both warlike and farming traditions. The Provencale stick dance (l’arlequine) is danced by women as a magical-religious ritual to awaken the powers of the earth.
Marta Izquierdo will invite La Fal.lera Gironina or l’Esbart d’Olot to various residencies and performances to provide, with their stick dances, an encounter between fiction and real life.
María Muñoz, co-director of Mal Pelo and L’animal a l’esquena, will collaborate artistically on Practice Makes Perfect.
