(Creation Residence - Associate Project 2019 )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 19/08/2019 to 24/08/2019
Marta Izquierdo
Like many of Marta Izquierdo Muñoz’s projects, her present one ties in with previous work. Practice Makes Perfect (2017) and IMAGO-GO (2018) shared a basic, archaic object: a stick. Traditional stick dances were explored in the former and in the latter entertainers carried a long pole. In this new piece, Guérillères, we find a choreographic framework in a community in action: where in IMAGO-GO this was a little rigid and dysfunctional, here it will be chaotic, organic and utopian.
“During a journey through the peaceful part of Colombia in the summer of 2017, I had the opportunity to spend some time in a jungle that had recently been abandoned by FARC guerrillas after the peace accords. As I travelled through these virgin forests I kept feeling their ghostly presence. On my return to Europe, I began to imagine the community life of women fighters awaiting an invisible enemy. A utopian community that, far from civilisation, chooses to reinvent its own rules, games and weapons.”
This piece is the second part of a triptych on groups of women (performed, like the others, by men as well as women), sharing a common practice: the entertainer and her tour in IMAGO-GO, the first part; a community on wheels in ROLL, that will be the last part.
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 19/08/2019 to 24/08/2019
Marta Izquierdo
Like many of Marta Izquierdo Muñoz’s projects, her present one ties in with previous work. Practice Makes Perfect (2017) and IMAGO-GO (2018) shared a basic, archaic object: a stick. Traditional stick dances were explored in the former and in the latter entertainers carried a long pole. In this new piece, Guérillères, we find a choreographic framework in a community in action: where in IMAGO-GO this was a little rigid and dysfunctional, here it will be chaotic, organic and utopian.“During a journey through the peaceful part of Colombia in the summer of 2017, I had the opportunity to spend some time in a jungle that had recently been abandoned by FARC guerrillas after the peace accords. As I travelled through these virgin forests I kept feeling their ghostly presence. On my return to Europe, I began to imagine the community life of women fighters awaiting an invisible enemy. A utopian community that, far from civilisation, chooses to reinvent its own rules, games and weapons.”
This piece is the second part of a triptych on groups of women (performed, like the others, by men as well as women), sharing a common practice: the entertainer and her tour in IMAGO-GO, the first part; a community on wheels in ROLL, that will be the last part.
