PROJECTS / COREOGRAFÍAS DEL SUR
LEIB, what does a body resist? (2023)
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LEIB it is an investigation that places the body as the first territory of sensitive thought and sensitive encounter with the other, with the world. It unfolds on a map that inhabits four questions: what can a body do?; what does a body desire?; what does a body resist? what does a body forget? These questions weave between the abstraction of Spinoza and Nietzsche and the tangible dimension related to the knowledge cultivated by members of collectives of searchers of missing persons in Mexico, a knowledge that dissolves the borders between empirical, mystical and metaphysical experience and science; between intuition and technique, between presentiment and knowledge. LEIB is a CONJURO that finds in artistic practice the ideal territory for growth, it tries to summon polyvocal and collective corporealities that whisper with the wind, with dreams, with the night, with trees and flowers, with the sun; it finds in dance the vital place where another world is possible or, at least, the way to perceive it and relate to it. LEIB is an CONJURO for all the people who have disappeared to return home. LEIB is a strategy of sensitive organization from the bodies that move to make another possible world appear. What does a body resist? is a strategy of sensitive organization from the bodies that move. This is an interwoven link between the myth of Sisyphus and the work of collectives searching for missing persons in Mexico. A body carries from the back of the stage to the proscenium a black plastic bag filled with air. A body carries from the back of the stage to the proscenium a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium with a black plastic bag filled with air. A body moves from the back of the stage to the proscenium in a black plastic bag filled with air. Artists: Alondra Alvarado, Danya García, Katya Desiré, Michele Ferrer, Itzamná Ponce, Renée de Pedro, Misael Quintero, Joshua Dalí, Iliana Olalde, Jesica Elizondo, Sabine Chwalisz, Sendic Vázquez, Melissa Herrada, Arturo Lugo, Fernando Frías, Paulina Cervantes, Fermín Martínez, Hebzoariba Hernández, Fernando Renjifo, Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo & Shantí Vera This project had its first public opening at the Sala Miguel Covarrubias de Danza UNAM, Mexico City in September 2023. *This research was published by the art journal ¬ACCESOS. Journal for Artistic Research of the Complutense University of Madrid ; was invited to do a residency at Fabrik Potsdam in July 2023; and was invited by the Artistic Residencies Program of the Centro Cultural Helénico 2023 and by DANZA UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ) in 2023. |
LEIB, what does a body desire? (2022)
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-Could you whisper with us? -We need you to whisper with us. -You can take moments of silence and then continue. -We need you to whisper with us. es es es esh esh esht esh esh ess ess esh esh esh esh esh esh esh (astik) esh esh esh eshr eshr ik eshr eshr eshr eshr eshrun eshrun run run run runa ao ao ao ao ao ao ao ao ao ao au au au au auh auh auh aux aux aux aux aush aush aush aush aush aush ssssssssssssss ssssssssssssss shshshshshshsh shshshshshshsh uh kl kl kl kl klk klk rk rk rk rikíu rikíu krk r rsu r rsu rsu rsu rsu tum rsu rsuúuu-sh shúa shúa shúam shúa shúa shúam-fra fra fra fratr-fra fra ftat ftat ftat ftat ftat-ul ulm ulm ulm ia ia ia ia ia-ex tla tla tla aruma aruma aruma xic xic xic xic xic tlal tlal tlal tlal tlum tlum arúa arúa arúa arúa sua sua sua sua sua alm alm alm alm ver ver ver ver ver xoc xoc xoc tum as hash as hash as hash as hash prim jac prim jac prim jac tum flau flau flau floust floust flousht shtak sktak-nang nang nangoarb nangoarb waaadí waadí waadí sum sum shum shum shm shm shm áb-rasu áb-rasu shum. LEIB it is an investigation that places the body as the first territory of sensitive thought and sensitive encounter with the other, with the world. It unfolds on a map that inhabits four questions: what can a body do?; what does a body desire?; what can a body withstand? what does a body forget? These questions weave between the abstraction of Spinoza and Nietzsche and the tangible dimension related to the knowledge cultivated by members of collectives of searchers of missing persons in Mexico, a knowledge that dissolves the borders between empirical, mystical and metaphysical experience and science; between intuition and technique, between presentiment and knowledge. LEIB is a CONJURO that finds in artistic practice the ideal territory for growth, it tries to summon polyvocal and collective corporealities that whisper with the wind, with dreams, with the night, with trees and flowers, with the sun; it finds in dance the vital place where another world is possible or, at least, the way to perceive it and relate to it. LEIB is an incantation for all the people who have disappeared to return home. Artists: Jesica Elizondo, Sabine Chwalisz, Sendic Vázquez, Melissa Herrada, Arturo Lugo, Fernando Frías, Paulina Cervantes & Shantí Vera This project has had residencies and showings at Experimenta Preciosa Festival/ ARTEA/ Sala Protocolo Nouvel, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía & Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, Spain. 2021; 36o. FIT de Cádiz (Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Cádiz 2021) Spain; CASA CREATES of CASA Festival, London 2021; Kunst und Klima Festival of Fabrik Potsdam, Germany 2022; Internationale TANZMESSE nrw / Düsseldorf, Germany 2022; 34o. International Festival of Contemporary Dance of Lima, ICPNA Peru 2022 and Festival4x4 #13 2022, Mexico. *This research was published by the magazine of art ¬ACCESOS. Journal for Artistic Research of the Complutense University of Madrid Spain, 2022; and was invited by the Programa of Artistic Residences of Centro Cultural Helénico 2023 and by DANZA UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in 2023. |
SALTAR (2022)
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SALTAR (2022) A bi-national video art project produced by Mexican artist Melissa Herrada and English artist Cordelia Grierson. SALTAR is a video art program produced by CASA (United Kingdom) and CUATRO X CUATRO (Mexico) in the Yucatan Peninsula in June 2022 and in York, England in September 2022. Funded by the British Council International Collaboration Grant 2021. The idea arose from the rise of anachronistic gender relations in the aftermath of the pandemic; SALTAR aims to question notions of gender and nature through a video art approach. These films directed by the English artist Cordelia Grierson, the Mexican collective Sociedad del Paisaje and the transnational project Cuatro X Cuatro, were premiered at Brixton House in London, England in October 2022 within the context of CASALAB 2022 and in Mexico were premiered at CEART Playas de Rosarito inside the program of Festival4x4 #13. Artists: Melissa Herrada, Jésica Elizondo, Cordelia Grierson, Fernando Frias, Paulina Cervantes, Sendic Vázquez, Arturo Lugo, Iliana Olalde, Fermín Martínez, Manuel Estrella, Louis Schreyer, Axel Lagerborg and Shantí Vera. Creative Production: Cordelia Grierson & Melissa Herrada. Production: International Collaboration Grant 2021 & Extension Grant 2023. |
EL GESTO ABSOLUTO (2022)
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EL GESTO ABSOLUTO (2022) *A collaboration with mmmmmmmmmm, SóloDos & Cuatro X Cuatro. This project was awarded for the MÉRIDA FEST 2022 International Co-Production call for international shows. "it was visual and sound poetry, it was movement and still images that stuck in the memory. Ephemeral compositions that stole our breath for their simplicity and aesthetic purity. Bodies, objects, textures, sounds? To enjoy contemporary dance you have to let go, to let the unexpected happen. EL GESTO ABSOLUTO throws you equally to the joyful walk of a little girl and to the anguished intensity of the wind. It flows between sequences performed by bodies that, no matter how close they are, never touch each other. It plunges you into the depths of the sea and the desperation of inhabiting a body. It breaks you in the solitude of silence." Aida Barrera / Mapa de peatones / February 14, 2022 Artists: Manuel Estrella, Erick Jiménez, Diana Bayardo, Raquel Chavez, Sendic Vázquez, Arturo Lugo, Jesica Elizondo & Shantí Vera. |
UN CAMPO EN EL ENTRE (2021)
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Un campo en el entre (2021) A visual work about tracking, searching, talking to the earth, opening furrows, looking for bodies, opening channels. Place the body Between the desert of the real and the invention of other worlds Between circles and trees Between silence and nothingness Between movement and stillness Between twilight and silence Between flesh and wind Between darkness and the woods. Between solitude and imagination Between being, staying, and running far away Between art and nature Between leaves of grass and space. Without tamer neither winter, a field in between. Artists: Arturo Lugo, Manuel Estrella, Fernando Frías & Shantí Vera. *This work was premiered in London, England as part of CASA Festival 2021, then it was presented in 2022 at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM within the cycle Cuerpo, contexto y paisaje, later it has been presented at the Teatro Bárbaro in Chihuahua, Alianza Francesa in Mérida, Área 51 Foro Teatral in Xalapa & La Perlita in Ensenada. |
DISOLVER (2018)
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DISOLVER (2018) "The scenography of DISOLVER places the play in that day. It speaks of those of us who survived. It honors what is left. The work was commissioned by Danza UNAM to commemorate the anniversary of the '68 Movement, but the viewer doesn't notice: there are no slogans or bloody images. It does not yield to the melancholic temptation of mythology. The program barely mentions that the work is about "the search for a disappeared body", about "making the worlds we are grow" and about "a verb that escapes, that insists and resists". Those of us who have tried to follow the work of Shantí Vera, who is one of Mexico's most extraordinary choreographers, could not help but feel the presence of her sister Nadia, a human rights defender and cultural promoter who was murdered at the age of 32 but who left her loved ones a legacy of love and dignity. The performers in DISOLVER have a degree of virtuosity that sets them apart from anything else I have seen, but it seems to me that they are doing something that is not just art. How will we tell our story the day after, when we rebuild ourselves? In this work a new language begins to be born that helps us to transit through the irremediable. Watching them dance, I felt I was in a sacred space. They do not only make art: they bear witness to themselves. They build a space of consolation that nourishes strength and dignity". DISOLVER/ "Dance to take care of life" / Dr. Rafael Mondragon / Common Magazine / June 19, 2019 Artists: Arturo Lugo, Jesica Elizondo, Manuel Estrella, Melissa Herrada, Melva Olivas, Estefania Dondi, José Andrés Álvarez Sanóu, Milki Lee, Luis Vallejo, Victor Villasana, Izaskun Insausti, Paulina Cervantes, Fernando Frías, Sendic Vázquez & Shantí Vera. *Project commissioned by the Dirección de Danza UNAM on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Student Movement of 1968; by the International Festival ZGZ Escena 2018 (Spain)/ Teatro Principal and by the Festival4x4 #10 (Mexico). *This work was presented in Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Onésimo González, Guadalajara, Jalisco; Festival Danza en la Ciudad, Bogotá, Colombia, 2019; International Festival of Contemporary Dance LILA LÓPEZ, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 2022 and Palacio de Bellas Artes/ Mexico City. *This project was selected for the IBERESCENA 2017 Program; Special Projects Program of FONCA 2018 and the Mexico Performing Arts Encounter Program ENARTES FONCA 2020. *DISOLVER was awarded by the Lighting Design Award / in the category “Stage Lighting” 2021 and Named as one of the best contemporary dance works in Mexico in the year 2022/ Revista La Razón de México. |
EL CUERPO VACÍO (2017)
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EL CUERPO VACÍO (2017) EL CUERPO VACÍO is a work about the body and corporealities, an investigation that situates the body as an absolute space to feel, think, find oneself, relate and question the world and the history of the capital world and the history of the western world. It is also a work about anxiety, mourning and childhood nostalgia. This research that the Latin American artist Shantí Vera has been developing since 2007 situates dance as a symbolic space of appropriation of the world. How to live, act, feel, intuit and think within integrated global capitalism in order to establish another world of possibilities?. This work investigates the body from its natural and cultural content. It insists on the search for vanishing lines from the body, a body that produces thought when it moves; from apparently fragile concepts such as emptiness, vulnerability, uselessness, fragility and the infraleve, it tries to make that thought move between the critical, the reflexive and the intuitive, always appealing to liberate and rediscover the individual and collective body. EL CUERPO VACÍO is a formal composition that dances between gravity, space, time, rhythm, emptiness, saturation and the Latin American context. Artists: Sendic Vázquez, Jésica Elizondo, Melissa Herrada, Manuel Estrella, Fernando Frías y Shantí Vera. *Project commissioned by the Festival4x4 #9 2017, Mexico. *This project was awarded for Young Creators Program FONCA 2016, Mexico, and selected by the Mexico Performing Arts Encounter Program ENARTES FONCA 2017. *This project was premiere inTheater of the City Esperanza Iris, Mexico City. May 17th / 2017, later in END-INBA 2017 (National Dance Encounter INBA) / Mexico; Festival Internacional Danzalborde, Chile 2017; International Festival of Contemporary Danza Costa Rica 2017; RNFD INBA (National Network of Dance Festivals INBA) 2017 & 2018: Entre Fronteras Encounter -Mexicali / Espuma Cuántica Festival- Ensenada / Un desierto para la Danza Festival- Hermosillo / International Contemporary Dance Festival José Limón Festival - Culiacán & Mazatlán / International Contemporary Dance Festival Raúl Flores Canelo - Saltillo / International Contemporary Dance Festival Extremadura - Monterrey / International Contemporary Dance Festival “Onésimo González”- Guadalajara / Yucatán Escénica Festival - Mérida; MIBEC 5.0 LARVA-Guadalajara 2018; Encontro do Danza du Brazil, Natal 2018; VIVADANZA Festival, Salvador de Bahía 2019; MID (Movimiento Internacional de Danza) Brazilia 2019; PLATAFORMA Berlín 2019/ Radial System, Germany; Potsdamer TANZTAGE 2019 / Fabrik Potsdam, Germany & ENDANZANTE 2019, Medellín, Colombia. |
país GRAVEDAD/ para mi hermana Nadia (2016)
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país GRAVEDAD/ para mi hermana Nadia (2016-2017) This choreographic piece exposes several urgencies for our world: the welcoming of the body, the space and silence. Awakening the thresholds of perception and the creation of community. It disposes the body and the space from a multidirectional dialogue with gravity, abstracts tensions from our contexts tensions and exposes them in lines, vibrations, frequencies and energies. This piece is a distribution on the sensitive; it is a posture anti-capital; it is an urgency, it is a homage, it is the abstraction of millions of tears, it is a circle for belief; it is lines and strokes that share, locate, divide, produce, separate, separate, assist, reunite the world and us in it. This piece should have been produced by my sister, Nadia, but Mexico did not allow her to do so. The violence and subjugation that we have been dragging along since the beginning of this nation did not allow her to do so. This piece should have been photographed by Rubén, Rubencito and Rubencillo, but his body and camera were destroyed. This piece speaks of the body as an absolute theme in a country where bodies are broken and disappear. This piece speaks of the urgency of welcoming space in a country with too much noise; the urgency of welcoming the affective space, the nothingness, the emptiness, the usefulness of the useless. It defends the individual body and the communitarian bodies, it defends the body as an autonomous body as an entity of autonomous thought, defends the dance as a right and left in a world where rights and lefts no longer exist.This work is for my sister, Nadia, for her thought, for her voice, for her imagination and for her body. It is also for all of those who dare to imagine other to imagine other possibilities in a country, in a continent and in a world like ours. “Silence and immobility are the two most powerful aspects of this choreography by Shantí Vera. Along with the development of a movement structure, country GRAVEDAD opens the choreopolitical possibility of stopping. In one of the intermediate scenes, a performer is left alone, standing on stage. The light and the gazes are concentrated on her; the time is so long that it provokes a powerful and nervous tension in the whole theater. Nothing happens but the passing of seconds, which are transfigured into persistence. A body, embodied vulnerability, that persists. Vera states her position on stage and enunciates it in the program handout: "This piece speaks of the body as an absolute subject in a country where bodies are broken and disappear; it speaks about the urgency of welcoming silence in a country with too much noise." Dedicated to the memory of her sister Nadia, Shantí Vera's work installs a strong affective link with the spectator, who by participating in the perception of the body, at the same time stimulates criticism against the unstoppable State violence. The strategy of stopping the movement is repeated in another scene, but this time with the eight bodies that participate in the montage. In this way, the sense of individual appearance is modified to give way to a set of corporealities on the stage that, immobile, unfolds reflections on how a community is built and the ways in which social organizations become visible. Is action, the kinetic deployment of bodies, necessary? What political implications are found in silence, in calm? What does it mean to remain immobile in the midst of the accelerated and violent project of modernity and capitalism? In country GRAVITY stillness is not equal to the inability to move, but to the possibility of appearing and pointing to the weight of bodies. Despite all the violence and horror.” -The weight of the bodies / Dr. Silverio Orduña/ Revista Imágenes del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la UNAM (Magazine IMÁGENES of the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM) / August 2016. Artists: Arturo Lugo, Jesica Elizondo, Manuel Estrella, Stéphanie Janaina, Melva Olivas, Victor Villasana, Nadia Lartigue, Manuel Estrella, Arturo Lugo, Sendic Vázquez, Melissa Herrada & Shantí Vera. PREMIERE-> Main Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes INBA, Mexico City. / July 23/2016.*This project was commissioned by the National Dance Coordination / INBA 2016. *This work was presented in International Festival ZGZ Escena, Spain & DANZA UNAM/ Miguel Covarrubias Theater, Mexico City 2017. |
El reparto de lo sensible (2015)
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El reparto de lo sensible This research is a formal exercise about the relation between space, body, sound and traces. It's a distribution of sensitivity of everything. There is only a circle of belief/ something inadequate that suits, that promises, demands, desires and makes possible.... the c u e r p o (body) is the absolute subject / space is the subject absolute. "Yesterday during the performance I was assaulted by the question "why see order, why does seeing something well done cause so much pleasure?" And I have not found the answer, but I felt the pleasure. Shanti Vera presents us with an impeccable piece in which dance is stripped of theatrical reminiscences (something very grateful in a prize so subjugated by the theatrical) affirming its autonomy as a field producing a discourse of its own. A piece in which the naked bodily action and the subtlety of the composition are enough. The spatial outline, the rhythm and the walk as a continuous bass and the sobriety of the dancers fit as perfect gears of a complex machine. The structure on El reparto de lo sensible By Fanzine Tiburón/ April 27th, 2015 *This work was premiere at Teatro Isauro Martínez/ April 29th / Torreón, Coahuila-END-INBA 2015 (National Dance Encounter INBA). *This project was awared of the “Best Male Dancer” & "Best Sound Design" of the National Dance Award INBA-UAM 2015. Mexico. |
HABITANTE (2014)
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HABITANTE is a project that establishes choreography as a field of thought. Historically, presidential elections in Mexico have been massively bought, giving "help" or "money" to citizens in exchange for their vote. This choreographic research had a 48-month process and took as its main concept parataxis (the de-hierarchization of the scene), this concept served to compose a work that questions the hierarchy and the factious use of government in Mexico. This work poses a game of exchange. The performers of HABITANTE need the spectators to participate, in exchange for their participation, the spectators receive a box with processed food that can be found in any supermarket and that are commonly of the worst quality, in addition the spectators that become part of the play, are dressed in a uniform way with a certain color to show their support to the artists and the play they are witnessing. "The absolute highligth of the theater festival "Kontext Mexiko" in Kampnagel at the beginning of March was the German premiere of the piece "Habitante" by choreographer Shanti Vera. Completely without dialogue, but with many facial expressions, disturbing background noise and a dark stage, the group Cuatro X Cuatro posed a frightening and oppressive simulacrum of today's Mexico, a society in which arbitrariness and brutal violence are the determining factors. Whether intended or not, "Inhabitant" made us think of "Square I + II" by master playwright Samuel Beckett." Schattenblick Magazine, Hamburg, Germany /March 29th, 2017. Artists: Arturo Lugo, Manuel Estrella, Victor Villasana, Alejandra Melgoza, Dalel Bacre, Xiomara Valdez, Luis Vallejo, Manuel Estrella, Arturo Lugo, Sendic Vázquez, Melissa Herrada & Shantí Vera. *This work was premiered in International Festival Oc-Ohtic 2014 at Teatro Peón Contreras, Mérida, Yucatán; END-INBA 2014 (National Dance Encounter INBA) in Guadalajara; Teatro Principal Puebla; Teatro Benito Juárez MExico City; “Temporada Otras Latitudes” de la CND-INBA 2015, Mexico City and in KONTEXT MEXIKO FESTIVAL by the International Center of Arts KAMPANGEL, Hamburg, Germany. *This project was awarded for the Young Creators Program FONCA 2016, Mexico and has received the National Award INBA-UAM 2014 Mexico in the category of the “Best Sound Design”. |
IMPOSSIBLE (2012)
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IMPOSSIBLE is a game of improvisation that starts from being in the middle of things. This project was selected to be produced by CEPRODAC-INBA (Centro de Producción de Danza Contemporánea en México; a sort of national contemporary dance company); during the development of this project, in Mexico we lived through federal elections; a second fraud for the eternal candidate of "the left", Andrés Manuel López Obrador, resulted in a taste of chaos throughout the country and a need for organization. IMPOSIBLE was permeated by this process; we tried to decipher which are the flows with which we can make the moment grow, tense the scene, question the spectator, dance from nothingness and interrupt the sense of the world; IMPOSIBLE was a young attempt of organization that failed, we put the scene from the signifier and not from what was there, the sensibility of the world and of each one of our bodies, we forced the anachronism of things and spaces, of rhythms and colors; in the end chaos triumphed and the presentations had impossible conclusions in sense, however with certain presentiments of organization. IMPOSIBLE was a project that tried to influence the random event through procedures of exclusion, classification, discrimination, ordering and liberation, proposing a dimension where what happens is chance; Mexico is so complex that it crushed us in the attempt to understand it, however some time later we "understood" that this game was necessary to choose our way of inhabiting the scene and the world. Artists: Dalel Bacre, Ricardo Rodríguez, Jésica Elizondo, Aimé Irasema, Raúl Tamez, Stéphanie Janaina, Rafael Cameras, Toto Colina, Arturo Lugo, Mauricio Ascencio and Shantí Vera. |
INACABADO V4 (2011)
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INACABADO V4 is a scenic project that from improvisation, autonomous lighting, the use of objects and bodies that move question their relationship with the world in the present; understanding the world to the theatrical device; it was also a formal study on the traces, traces and traces that bodies leave when they are traveled and cross empty spaces, between what is shown and hidden, between being present and disappearing. Artists: Luis Vallejo, Xiomara Valdez, Aniram Lara, Arturo Lugo, Dalel Bacre, Victor Villasana & Shantí Vera. *This project was created with the support of the Mexico en Escena program of CENART 2011-2012. *This work was awarded the "Premio de Coreografía Yucatán Escénica 2012", Mexico and had its premiere at the Teatro del Estado de Xalapa, Veracruz in 2012; subsequently it was presented in the following festivals and theaters: CENART México; MIDO Oaxaca; Yucatán Escénica Festival; International Contemporary Dance Festival of Tabasco; Festival 4x4 #6; International Contemporary Dance Festival "Onésimo González-LARVA" Guadalajara, Jalisco; INTERmedio Festival/ Xalapa, Veracruz; Rosario Castellanos Festival/ Teatro Junchavin, Chiapas; 8th Festival SIRAEX / Klásterec nad Ohri, Czech Republic; TRAYECTCOS Festival / Zaragoza, Spain; Contac -teu Encounter / Lömstrask, Sweden; Encuentro Centroamericano y del Caribe para el Estudio de la Danza Contemporánea & Mudanzas & Festival SóloDos/ Costa Rica; International Contemporary Dance Festival PRISMA/ Teatro Nacional, Panama City; SÓLODOS/ Ourense and Lugo, Spain; Dantza Hirian Festival/ Hendaye, France. |
Arquitectura 4 (2011)
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Arquitectura 4 was a choreographic installation, the result of "the tsunami" caused by the Butoh workshop directed by the artist Natsu Nakajima in the city of Xalapa during the Festival4x4 in July 2011. This installation consisted of taking the Casa de Lago of the Universidad Veracruzana and transforming it into a space in which one could flow in a sort of "river between", where the members of Cuatro X Cuatro, using objects such as paper, lamps, computers, canvases, plastic and metal tubes, designed a labyrinth to unveil presences of the Casa de Lago itself. Arquitectura 4 was a unique season that was not replicated in any other space. Photographs, shadows, walks, live compositions, interaction with paper, juxtapositions of sounds and light revealed a way of inhabiting that space. Arquitectura 4 was presented in September 2011 as part of the 4th Anniversary of CUATRO X CUATRO. Artists: Aniram Lara, Braulio Escamilla, Giovanni Rosas, Xiomara Valdez, Fernando Frías, Luis Vallejo, Sendic Vázquez and Shantí Vera. |
NOSOTROS (2011)
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NOSOTROS was a collaboration between Moving Borders & Cuatro X Cuatro. In Mexico being “carnal” of someone is being half friends and half brothers. That condition allows such a close relationship that is used to last forever. In that sense «NOSOTROS» is a story of “carnales" that reveals the typical mexican masculine world denoted by games of extreme physicality as free wrestling (lucha libre), persecutions, street soccer and videogames but at the same time through the use of the dancer’s childhood memories, the murmur of their neighborhoods and the typical whistles codified between friends we can see the fragility and tenderness that hides behind the condition of being a man in México. The sense of humor and a frontal relation with the audience cover the piece with freshness and vitality. NOSOTROS was premiered in Palacio de Bellas Artes in July 2012. This work was awarded with the XXXI Premio INBA-UAM 2010-2011 known as the most important choreographic prize in México and since then it has toured along Mexican Republic and different countries like Germany, Costa Rica, Italy, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Spain, Belarus, Lithuania, Colombia and Poland in festivas such as: CAMP.IN 2017/ Teatro Bicentenario / San Luis Potosi; Schrit_tmacher Festival / Fabrik Stahlbau Strang / Aachen, Germany; FIDANZA/ Teatro de la Ciudad / Festival Internacional de la Riviera Maya en Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo; IFMC/ XXVII International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk, Belarus; Ulster Bank Belfats International Arts Fest / The MAC / Belfast, Northern Ireland; International Festival of Arts Julio Torri 2015/ San Juan de Sabines, Piedras Negras, Nueva Rosita y Monclova, Coahuila; ART ORT Festival/ Heilderberg, Germany; TanzFaktur/ Köln, Germany; 9o. Festival Internacional de Ballet de Cali/ Teatro Enrique Buenaventura/ Cali, Colombia; VII Festival de Artes Escénicas de Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; VII Festival Internacional Cuatro X Cuatro/ Teatro del Estado/ Xalapa, Veracruz; 9th International Choreographie NO BALLET – Wettbewerb / Theater Im Pfalzbau / Ludwingshafen, Germany; Teatro de la Danza/ Mexico City; 12o. Festival Cultural Universitario ITESO / Auditorio Pedro Arrupe, SJ. / Guadalajara, Jalisco; AURA Intenational Dance Festival / Grand Hall of Vytautas Magnus University / Kaunas, Lituania; Internationale Tanzmesse nrw 2014 / Tanzhaus nrw – Main Stage / Düsseldorf, Germany; 7º Festival Siguientescena / Cine Teatro Rosalía Solano / Querétaro; 9th Festival SIRAEX 2014 en Klasterec Nad Ohri, Czech Republic; XIV Interantional Dance Festival 2014/ Teatro Esperanza Iris/ Villahermosa, Tabasco; Un Desierto para la Danza 2014 / Teatro de la Ciudad/ Hermosillo, Sonora, México; XVI Muestra Internacional de Danza Cuerpos en Tránsito 2014 / Sala de Espectáculos del CECUT / Tijuana, Baja California, México; XXII Encuentro Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Entre Fronteras / Teatro de la UABC / Mexicali, Baja California, México; VI Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Espuma Cuántica/ Foro Experimental/ Ensenada, Baja California; Sala Miguel Covarrubias/ Danza UNAM/ Mexico City; XVI International Dance Festival Onésimo González/ Guadalajara, Jalisco; Foro Nacional Violencia y Arte / LARVA / Guadalajara, Jalisco; Festival de Danza Colima 2013 / Teatro Universitario / Colima; Territorios del Arte Mercado Escénico 2013/ Teatro del Centro Cultural Universitario Bicentenario/ San Luis Potosí; 2º Festival Nacional de Danza Contemporánea / Teatro Principal, Reynosa, Tamaulipas; X Festival Internacional de Danza en Paisajes Urbanos TRAYECTOS / Zaragoza, Spain; IX LEKUZ – LEKU Festival / Museo Guggenheim / Bilbao, Spain; IX Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Teatrów Tanca Zawirowania / Mala Scena TS / Warsaw, Poland; International Dance Festival José Limón / Teatro José Ángel Espinoza “Ferrusquilla” del IMSS- Los Mochis; Ágora Rosario Castellanos del ISIC- Culiacán; Teatro Ángela Peralta – Mazatlán / Sinaloa; VI Festival de la Zona Media/ Cardena, Ciudad Fernandes y Río Verde, San Luis Potosí; Centroamerican Encounter Mudanzas & Festival SóloDos/ San José, Costa Rica; Internacional Contemporary Dance Festival Oc-Ohtic, Mérida, Yucatán; PLATAFORMA Berlín /Ufferstudios, Berlín, Germany; “Dantza Hirian Festival/ Hendaia, Basque Country, France; INTERFERENZE VII edizione 2012/ Teramo, Italy; Festival Ballo Pubblico Outdoor; Fenice Festival 2012, Poggibonsi, Italy; Teatro de la Danza Mexico City & Festival Internacional Abril y Danzar/ Teatro del estado, Xalapa, Veracruz; *In 2014 was awared in Germany with the *1st. Place and Audience Award in the 9th International Competition of Choreography NO BALLET 2014 in Ludwishaffen, Germany. Artists: Jaciel Neri, Jésica Elizondo, Joaquín López “Chas”, Stéphanie Janaina, Lorena Azcona, Luis Vallejo, Victor Villasana, Ricardo Rodríguez, Eduardo Rocha, Francisco Cordova, Sendic Vázquez & Shantí Vera. *In December 2017 was our last performance with this work. |
HAIKU 8 descomposición en rojo (2010)
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HAIKU 8 decomposition in red is a choreographic installation that is built from eight atmospheres that intertwine to deploy a framework about blindness, routine, madness and freedom. This scenic installation was researched and created in the context of Veracruz, Mexico, while the constitutional governor of the state was Fidel Herrera and his successor was Javier Duarte, both painted red the government buildings, the posts in the parks, the bus stops, during this transition of power, the state of Veracruz was dyed red by the unleashed violence, a violence that has traces to this day. HAIKU 8 decomposición en rojo is a work about madness as the possibility of escaping from reality; as the possibility of opening a path in a dark land; as the possibility of questioning reality from the bodies that move in the scene, that laugh, cry, scream, sing. “An open and conscious proposal that traces on the basis of affinities and articulations of fluid movements, contained, articulated and without counterpressions to name things as they are…. In "HAIKU 8 decomposition in red" we find another way to explore the new scenic uses of space, propose other dispositions of the spectator and thus multiply the points of view of the work and generate as many interpretations of what is seen, as possible places from which you can empathize with the performers modeled according to the requirements of the scenic fact and at the same time corroborate a generation where the boundaries between theater and dance are blurring more and more every day.” Roberto Valenciano/ Paraje Tunero / December 9th 2010 Artists: Luis Vallejo, Xiomara Valdez, Sendic Vázquez, Giovanni Rosas, Braulio Escamilla, Tathiana Figueroa, Amira Ramírez, Cutberto Orea, Raúl Talamantes, Fernando Frías, Rafael Cameras, Mayca Rodríguez, Sara Tolosa, Javier Santo, Aniram Lara, Jésica Elizondo y Shantí Vera. *This work was premiered in Festival4x4 #12 at Centro Cultural La Calle 2010; subsequently it was presented in the following festivals and theaters: Centro Recreativo Xalapeño, Casino Xalapeño, Casa de Lago UV; EINCE 2010/ Plaza de Armas Zapopan, Jalisco ; International Contemporary Dance Oc-Ohtic 2010 / Teatro Armando Manzanero in Mérida, Yuctaán & Ex Teresa Arte Actual Mexico City. *This project was awarded for the PECDA Program 2010 & ENARTES Program 2011, being presented in Theater Bicentenario in León, Guanajuato in the context of Festival Internacional Cervantino 2011. |
Licenciados Serie 2008 (2008) & SOLAR (2009)
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LICENCIADOS was a work directed by choreographer Rodrigo Angoitia for the group CUATRO X CUATRO. This work was a long process that had as main references the book 1984 by G. Orwell, the paintings of E. Hooper and the music of Min Tanaka. This work studies the monotony of the modern body, the professionalization of knowledge in the capital world, analyzes the film American Phsyco and develops a framework in which, through a scenario represented as a perfect square, four characters "inhabit" their lives. LICENCIADOS premiered at the Teatro de la Danza in Mexico City, later it was presented at the Festival SONA en Movimiento in Hermosillo, Sonora; this work later became a full-length choreographic installation named SOLAR and was presented at the Centro Cultural Tlatelolco within the "25th Festival de la Ciudad de México en el Centro Histórico". Since this season the relationship with non-human bodies has been fundamental in the work of CUATRO X CUATRO (tires, gas tanks, fabrics, swings, coal, stones, water, furniture... etc). Artists: Rodrigo Angoitia, Israel Martínez, Waldo Facco, Javier Santo, Abraham Ponce, Luis Vallejo & Shantí Vera. *A collaboration between Estudio 28 & Cuatro X Cuatro. |
