TOX
choreography: Sonia Jiménez
music: System of a Down (reinterpreted by Israel Torres, Miguel Rodríguez, Ulises Pérez, Robbin Blanco)
costume design: Blanca Carreón
duration: 18’
premiere: Belgrade Dance Festival, 2027.
This work explores the invisible forces that shape human relationships. Through shifting alliances, physical dependency, attraction, resistance and confrontation, the work examines how power circulates between individuals and groups. As a force in constant motion: support can turn into control, admiration into dependency, and intimacy into conflict. Performed by ten dancers, the piece creates ever-shifting human landscapes where bodies gather, separate, carry and lift one another, reflecting on the fragile balance between individual freedom and the need to belong.
Sonia Jiménez is a Mexican choreographer, rehearsal director and writer. She danced with the company for eighteen years before devoting herself to choreography. Her work explores human relationships, emotional tension, vulnerability and transformation, linking classical technique with contemporary expression. She has created numerious works for the Compañía Nacional de Danza, including “Lumbre” for the Cervantino Festival, “Ciudad Delirio” for the 90th anniversary of the Palacio de Bellas Artes and “Vértigo” for Dance Open St. Petersburg.
Give me your Absence...
choreography: Michelle Cutri
music: Thomas Bangalter, Ezio Bosso
costume design: Fernanda Cervantes
duration: 20’
premiere: Belgrade Dance Festival, 2027.
This is a work about what remains when someone is no longer there. It speaks of waiting as a deeply human act: the need to hold on to a sign confirming that we still dwell in another’s memory. Absence appears not as emptiness but as a persistent presence that settles into memory, body and time. Through movement, memories come alive and confront the one who waits with the weight of what was and the possibility of what will never come. The work proposes that true liberation does not arrive when the other returns, but when we are able to stop waiting: at times, the greatest act of love toward oneself is to transform absence into a new beginning.
Michelle Cutri is a Mexican dancer and choreographer, a graduate of the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance in Mexico City. In 2012 she joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza. She has danced much of the company’s classical repertoire and collaborated with leading national and international choreographers.Her choreographic research explores memory, emotion and human relationships, understanding dance as a language able to transform intimate experience into an encounter with the audience.
Nocturno
choreography: Jacqueline López
music: Alonso J. Burgos
costume design: Blanca Carreón
lighting design:
duration: 18’
premiere: Belgrade Dance Festival, 2027.
A city without maps, without borders, without beginning or end: the city simply happens, infinite, suspended in time. When darkness falls, its inhabitants emerge, each carrying a singular identity, between solitude and desire, between strength and fragility. The spectator watches as if through a shop window, a silent witness to an intimacy that never belongs to them: lives that cross without quite meeting, fleeting connections, momentary alliances. Yet even in excess there is a void. When the night reaches its peak, the Afterlight appears: a light belonging neither to night nor to dawn, a state suspended between exhaustion and revelation, where each inhabitant is left facing themselves. The city goes on.
Jacqueline López is a Mexican régisseuse, performer, choreographer and educator. A graduate of the National University for the Teaching of Classical and Contemporary Dance (INBA), she was a principal soloist with the Compañía Nacional de Danza of Mexico, where she performed leading roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire. Her artistic practice sits at the intersection of dance, image and stage space, exploring the body as a sensitive archive, a relational territory and a device for thought. She has created work for national and international companies and institutions.
The Compañía Nacional de Danza is Mexico’s most representative ballet company. Founded in 1963 as Ballet Clásico de México and established as the Compañía Nacional de Danza by decree in 1977, it represents the country with the finest of classical and contemporary dance. Throughout its history it has brought together leading figures of national and international dance and built a repertoire combining the great classics, the neoclassical legacy and contemporary creation, with a style of its own. Today the company nurtures the talent of its own creators and opens its stages to Mexican choreographers and leading international voices, reaffirming its classical essence while exploring new languages.
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