Due to Coronavirus and closing of theaters in Serbia, the show "Pasionaria" of La Veronal from Barcelona that was scheduled for 31.03.2020. at Opera Madlenianum, is rescheduled for 11th September 2020 at Opera Madlenianum. All tickets are valid for the new term.
Pasionaria
idea, artistic direction: Marcos Morau
choreography: Marcos Morau in collaboration with the dancers
choreographer’s assistant: Lorena Nogal
répétiteur: Estela Merlos
artistic, dramaturgical advice: Roberto Fratini, Celso Giménez
set design: Max Glaenzel
costume design: Silvia Delagneau
sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
video design: Esterina Zarrillo
lighting design, technical direction: Bernat Jansà
technical assistance, special effects: David Pascual
executive production: Juan Manuel Gil Galindo y Cristina Goñi Adot
co-production: Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Sadler's Wells (London), Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Grec 2018 Festival de Barcelona/Institut de Cultura Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Rovereto), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona)
with collaboration of: El Graner Centre de Creació (Barcelona)
with support of: INAEM – Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte de España and ICEC –Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
duration: 60’
premiere: Teatros del Canal, Madrid, 2018
dancers: Alba Barral, Àngela Boix, Jon López, Núria Navarra, Lorena Nogal, Shay Partush, Marina Rodríguez, Sau-Ching Wong
If you control the children, you control the future.
Submission,Michel Houllebecq
Imagine that place everyone talks about. The place into which we will change all this. That world that is a result of all our efforts throughout these years. We could call that place, that planet, Pasionaria. Beings similar to us, who have been perfectly designed to imitate us, live there. What we call life has become an artificial landscape and its inhabitants have turned into technological gadgets that have lost any kind of passion. The present in which we live makes us imagine a future in which we have simply stopped feeling. A future in which we do not even aspire to differentiate ourselves or feel that we are living our own life. The poet Leopoldo María Panero wrote: “I destroy myself to know that I am me and not all of them.” We understand that pain and passion are what differentiate us from robots or statues, and we will use those inert bodies in this piece to look at ourselves, find differences and discover whether we are still alive. “Pasionaria” questions the emotional detachment that we are moving towards. A reflection on the idea of progress that is being imposed on us. The artificial world which we are pushed towards and violently thrown into, where individualism and moral cowardice is turning the current world into a place of defenceless adults.
Marcos Morau (Valencia, 1982) studied choreography at the Theater Institute in Barcelona, the Dance Conservatory in Valencia and the Movement Research in New York, obtaining the highest score on the final project and the extraordinary award of the Theater Institute. His artistic skills are not limited to dance but extended into disciplines such as photography and drama, studying the Master in Theory of Drama. In 2005 he founded La Veronal, company formed by artists from the dance, film, photography and literature. The artistic team purpose lies directly on a constant search for new expressive media, for cultural references – cinema, literature, music and photography, mostly – to bet on a strong narrative language with the intention of forming global art spaces. Marcos Morau has been awarded with the National Dance Award by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2013, and Sebastià Gasch Award, an important prize granted by the Spanish Foundation for Arts and Design. His works were presented and awarded at many national and international choreography competitions, including competitions in Hannover, Copenhagen, Madrid, Canary Islands… His performances made for La Veronal are part of the program of the most important festivals and theatres in the world, and have received numerous important awards and prizes. Morau, together with his team, is also creating for other companies of international reputation.
Certainly, Dance Theater can always take you on a journey; sometimes to the Middle Ages, sometimes to the outer space. At least that is what Marcos Morau does in “Pasionaria”, his new piece for La Veronal, a powerful collective that he leads in Barcelona which, in the best line of Asimov and Tarkovski, proposes a hypnotic science fiction exercise. Faithful to his always surprising, clean and aseptic visual style and to his fractionated style of dance, Morau takes a new turn and changes his interests. His pieces always portray some kind of road-dances, taking the audience to distant earthly places such as Iceland, Siena, Russia, or the Voronia cave. Now he leaves the Earth asking questions about the scope of robotics and sending warnings about the growing dehumanization of our societies, which seems to be depriving us of our passions.
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Caution: Strobe lighting will be used during the performance.
