We reach adolescence as a tin robot, ready for everything except to understand what is s/he like. As in a science-fiction movie, we tend to change to become somebody different. Sometimes we shrug our shoulders and lower our eyes to hide this metamorphosis. Other times, we challenge the whole world with a high head. Angela and Koldo want want to go back to this life stage and, from the skin, start building a home full of sensations, a safe and fertile place where the ideas and desires of our imagination sprout.
The company of Iván Góngora takes a second show to L’Hospitalet, namely, El novio, a piece of pure flamenco in which a man will have to decidí between the innocent love, represented by his beloved, or the sensual love offered by a stranger. An intense and moving show.
Éxodo is a contemporary flamenco show that goes into the painful feeling of escape, the ongoing exodus of the human being to adapt and survive. A scenic cry, evoking the pain of leaving and the uncertainty of the future, the exodus stubbornly faithful to humanity. Risk, strength and determination are the ingredients to be able to jump into the void and embrace the only alternative we have to change our destiny.
One of the greatest models of current flamenco, Israel Galván faces an essential score of Spanish music, El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla. He does it alone, without orchestra, stage or dancing body, focusing on the vibration of the strings of a piano, in the soul of the broken voice of a singer. For Galván, the dance is transformation, and in the Falla teacher he has found the key to transform himself into a pure bailaor.
Continuation of Brut, a piece of work premiered in 2016 in Barcelona, Amaro wants to highlight the falseness of appearances. Nothing is what it seems, the show tells us, everything changes and, therefore, everything is in constant transformation. Here lies the movement, life. Raquel Gualtero has been accompanied by artists such as Sònia Gómez, Rodrigo Rammsy, Amaranta Velarde, Pere Jou and Txiqui Berraondo to shape their choreographic research.
IT Dance takes part once again in Dansa Metropolitana with a friendly and agile program, with an up-to-date language use, that the young company directed by Catherine Allard interprets with energy and enthusiasm. The program opens with two choreographies premiered at the Greek 2018, Kaash, by Akram Khan - a piece that requires great technique, rigor, precision and physical power - and The Prom, by Lorena Nogal, a very theatrical creation that talks about the uncertainties of youth with touches of humor, longing and fragility.
Ephimera wants to put faces to people who live in the street, people who we bumped into daily without nearly realizing their presence, without being interested in their reality. The show emerges from the concern of two creators, a choreographer and a plastic artist, who understand art as a motor of social change and as a tool to open our minds, and so respect the different and show solidarity with the more disadvantaged. Ephimera is a meeting between two arts, contemporary dance and drawing, a body that draws the space, a pencil that dances on paper.
