NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES: FOLK + TUNDRA
National Dance Company Wales visits Spain for the first time presenting three of its productions. NDCW is known for its innovative work and for collaborating with the best dancers and choreographers from Wales and around the world.
Folk
A fairy tale set in a fantastic world, as dark and enigmatic as it is fascinating.
Tundra
Through contemporary dance, Tundra brings new meaning to ancient ideas and customs.
Best dance submission at the UK Theatre Awards 2018.
Best Choreography at the Wales Theatre Awards 2017.
Tickets 26€ and 20€.
Duration: 60 min
For ages 8 and older
FOLK
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Criticism "Strange and wonderful, like all the best myths and fables." "A fairy tale of our time, vintage and modern". "A modernist fable, on the one hand very funny, but extremely moving overall." I love observing people, their quirks, their peculiarities and their behavior in different social settings. I wanted to create a play about relationships and social dynamics, about how people behave when they are in a group compared to when they are alone. What makes people form a group or establish a particular connection with someone? What excludes people from a group and how does this affect their behavior? I was also inspired by the variety and expressions of characters and communities seen in 17th and 18th century oil paintings, and encouraged the dancers to create their own characters inspired by these paintings. I wanted to create a surreal, yet familiar world, a world that is not recognizable, but one that we can all identify with in some way." - Caroline Finn
Creative team
Choreography: Caroline Finn Set and design: Joseff Fletcher Music: Barcarola (Offenbach, Giraud), Mantovani and his Orchestra; Midnight Waltz, Adam Hurst; O Zorbas, Mikis Theodorakis; Homo Fugit velut umbra, Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata; Black Gold, Armand Amar and Sarah Nemtanu; Pepa, Carles Santos; Threnody, Goldmund Lighting Design: Joseff Fletcher Costume design: Gabriella Slade Costume design: Eva Ott and Amy Barrett |
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CAROLINE FINN Caroline Finn, born in England, attended the Tring School of Dramatic Arts and the Juilliard School in New York, where she obtained her degree in dance. As a dancer, she has performed with Ballet Theater Munich, Le Ballet Preljocaj and the Carolyn Carlson Company (France). Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer, presenting her works all over the world and choreographing for companies such as the Chilean National Ballet and the Tanz Luzerner Theater in Switzerland. She won the Matthew Bourne New Adventures Choreographer Award in 2014 and was later commissioned to create Bloom for Phoenix Dance Theatre Company. Caroline has been artistic director of NDCWales from 2015 to 2017 and creates four new works for the company, including. Folkwith which she won the title of "Best Female Artist". In 2018 she is appointed resident choreographer to continue working with the company. She has been choreographer and co-director of. Passion, NDCWales co-production with Music Theatre Wales, which has been included in the list of the top ten classical performances of 2018 on The Guardian. |
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TUNDRA
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In an arid landscape, ultramodern creativity comes to life and rips the pages out of the history books of Russian folk dance, the USSR and the revolution. Marcos Morau draws inspiration from art and cinema to create this daring style. Criticism "Every single part of this production is ethereal, dizzying magic." "Cold, but strangely sexy." "A heavyweight that provides the NDCWales with a truly unique work."
Creative team Choreography: Marcos Morau Assistant choreographers: Marina Rodriguez, Lorena Nogal and Lee Johnston Visual art, set and design: Joseff Fletcher Music: Svadebnie pesni (Duhovskaya), Olga Sergeeva; Cradle Song (Russian Jewish lullaby), Kitka; 1559 W. Cunningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125, Akira Rebelais; Fail, Demdike Stare; Consumed, The Haxan Cloak; Shisen, Mariah Lighting Design: Joseff Fletcher Costume Design: Angharad Matthews |
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Marcos Morau (Valencia, 1982) studied choreography at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, the Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Valencia and Movement Research in New York, obtaining the highest grade in his final project and the extraordinary prize of the Institut del Teatre. Her artistic knowledge is not limited to dance but extends to other disciplines such as photography and dramaturgy, studying a Master in Theory of Dramaturgy. In 2005 he created La Veronal, a collective formed by artists from dance, film, literature and photography. The purpose of its artistic team lies directly in a constant search for new expressive supports and cultural references -mainly cinema, literature and photography- that bet on a narrative language with the intention of forming global artistic spaces. Marcos Morau has been awarded the National Dance Prize 2013, and other renowned awards such as the FAD Sebastià Gasch prize, awarded by the FAD Foundation of Arts and Design. With his creations he has managed to win national and international awards. Marcos Morau and his team have also exported their stamp to other companies of recognized international reputation. La Veronal is also present in recent times in some of the most important festivals and theaters in the world such as the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Biennale di Venezia, Tanz Im August Berlin, Oslo Opera, Julidans Amsterdam, Sadler?s Wells in London or the Internationale Tanzmesse in Düsseldorf, the most important showcase for dance in Europe. |
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NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES
National Dance Company Wales is the contemporary dance company of Wales. It was founded in 1983 as Diversions and became National Dance Company Wales in 2009. In 2018, Fearghus Ó Conchúir is appointed artistic director.
It is made up of ten dancers who perform in Wales, the UK and other countries such as Germany, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Hong Kong. It engages mainly choreographers who have not yet worked in the UK. It is known for its innovative work with and for all kinds of people in all kinds of spaces and in different formats and contexts.
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FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR He has presented his choreography in the UK, Europe, USA and China collaborating with renowned performers, directors and composers. Recently he has worked as artistic director of The Casement Project, one of the major projects of the Arts Council of Ireland for the commemoration of the Centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916. He has worked as a dance teacher for companies such as Adventures in Motion Pictures, Arc Dance and Preljocaj, as well as at the London School of Contemporary Dance, Middlesex University and the London Studio Centre. His work is strongly oriented towards diversity and I have developed dance projects for different collectives. |
Date
October 3, 2019
Time
19:30