Subject. Itsaso A. Cano
A disturbing journey that delves into our feelings and questions our behavioral patterns, claiming that we are much more than skin and bone.
ABSOLUTE PREMIERE
The company Zuk Dance will perform at the University of Navarra an artistic residency that will culminate with the premiere of the show Materia.
General admission: 16 and 14€.
"Cover the memory with the mask of the one you will be,
and scare the child you were".
- A. Pizarnik -
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Our body, which makes our existence possible, is an indispensable instrument of expression to shape our behavior and identity. But what if our behavior consists of our body's response to this need for expression? Who determines our behavior, who directs our steps? Materia questions the movement of the body as that which governs our thought and our spirit. A movement in turn governed by the culture of masks, of what is socially desirable and acceptable. It immerses us in a world in which, as Voltaire suggests, "We are pure machines, feelings, passions, tastes, talents, ways of thinking, speaking or walking". Through the language of urban and contemporary dance and circus, Materia invites us to enter the world governed by the masks that hide our faces. The original music of this show appears on stage as a character alongside the dancers, offering the audience the fragility and strength that the voice has live as a communicating element. Voice and movement are a whole. On this occasion, the company will have the special collaboration of several dancers from Navarre who will participate in a choreographic laboratory based on the show. |
ARTISTIC FILE
Address. Itsaso A. Cano
Production. Miguel PG
Production Assistance. Vicente Romero
Music composition and interpretation. Sofía Comas (singer), Guillermo Medín and Gonzalo Rivas (electronic music).
Dancers. Julia Lith, Ada Continente, Macarena Bielski and Selene Martínez.
Costumes and lighting. Eleni Chaidemenaki
Photography and video. Harria Productions
ZUK PERFORMING ARTS
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Zuk was born in 2012 in Madrid, under the direction of Navarra's Itsaso A. Cano. The company stands out for its current proposals where it includes dance and the living arts through music, audiovisuals and direct contact with the public, all this together with its own choreographic language that is born in the encounter of urban dance with contemporary dance. The director's works have been shown in the Spanish capital at the "La Noche en Blanco" festival, "El Museo Reina Sofía, La Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, Los Teatros del Canal, La Cuarta Pared, El Teatro Madrid, La Sala Mirador, El CC Paco Rabal, Teatro La Latina and Matadero de Madrid among others. Nationally at festivals in Valencia, Oviedo, Barcelona, Córdoba, Navarra, Zaragoza, Castellón, Vigo... and internationally in China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Italy, United Kingdom, France and Brazil. First prize at the Certamen Danza en Valores de Madrid for the work "Y Park". In 2017 Two nominations for the Max Awards 2015 Best Choreography and Best Private Production for the show "Halka". Winners of the Certamen Jóvenes Creadores Madrid 2014 with "Box". Audience Award at the Certamen De Una Sola Pieza Universidad Carlos III 2013. Winners of the Certamen de Jóvenes Creadores de Madrid 2013 with "Zuk". |
ITSASO ÁLVAREZ CANO
She is the company's director, dancer and choreographer, graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila with a degree in Contemporary Choreography. Her academic studies began in classical ballet and contemporary dance to which she later incorporated choreography, theater and root dances such as The Sacred Dances of Gurdjieff, The Sufi Turn, Butoh Dance, and finally Gestalt Psychology.
Itsaso is a multifaceted creator who directs and choreographs stage shows, musical concerts, choreographies for film, video dance and video clips.
He has worked with artists such as Luz Casal, Marta Sánchez, Vanesa Martín, Rafael Amargo or Miguel Bosé among others. He choreographed the film "Los Mundos Sutiles" nominated for two Goya awards and received two nominations for the MAX awards with his show "Halka".
The director also combines her work as a choreographer with teaching. She has just finished three years of training in Gestalt Psychology at the A.E.T.G. She is interested in the work of creation from the person and listening, using dance as self-knowledge and creation as personal and collective transformation.
The last workshops were in Singapore in the "Dance Lab Project" and at SIM University with the collaboration of Fundación SGAE where she developed a laboratory on Identity and last November within the "Intensive Workshop Program" at NUS - National University of Singapore where Itsaso was able to develop different technique classes and a creative laboratory.
Date
November 9, 2018
Time
19:30