Teresa Catalán: Gravity 0º

The genesis of Gravity 0º lies in the chance meeting between Teresa Catalán and Jean Philippe Dury, when the composer explained to the choreographer her interest in music intended to be danced to, and more specifically in her creation La danza de la princesa (The Dance of the Princess). Dury conceives an intimate work as opposed to the musical power of Teresa Catalán's notes. Valentina Pedica assumes with sensitivity and strength a dance that is a technical and expressive challenge.

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THE SHOW

Approximate duration 20 minutes

Solo dance by Valentina Pedica

Three artists united through musical composition, choreography and the body as object-subject. Three generations and the shared or strange vision of thought and the female body. The vertigo, the risk, the questioning of the limits, the tempting apple are instruments of this narration to three.

The work provokes a sense of danger in the spectator: the slightest vibration could cause Valentina Pedica to fall. It is a journey of emergency and urgency. The piece questions aspects of gender relations from the solitude of a female body.

Choreographer Jean Philippe Dury

Composer Teresa Catalán

Dancer Valentina Pedica

Musical performance Euskadi Symphony Orchestra.

Work premiered and recorded under the baton of Maestro Carlo Rizzi in April 2014, as part of the 2013-2014 Season of the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra.

Lighting design: Pablo Seoane

Scenography: Jean Philippe Dury

Music Recording: Ars Incognita Foundation.

Video and Photos: José Luis Magaña

Acknowledgments:

To Javier Ecay. Fundación Ars Incognita, Z Soluciones Audiovisuales, for so many years of support to music.

To Miguel Soto Valadés, José Miguel, Lint Chini from "Todo en Orden y Eventos", Beatriz Francos, Pablo R. Seoane

With the collaboration of: Teatro Conde Duque - Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Canal Dance Center. Professional Conservatory of Dance Mariemma.

Work subsidized by the Community of Madrid - Directorate General for Cultural Promotion.

BIOGRAPHIES

TERESA CATALÁN (COMPOSER)

Teresa Catalán, composer and Professor of Composition and Instrumentation at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, was born in Pamplona where she studied music, graduating in Piano and Composition. In her training as a composer in Spain and Italy, her teachers Ramón Barce and Agustín González Acilu stand out.

D. in Philosophy of Art and Master in Aesthetics and Musical Creativity from the University of Valencia. She has received several awards for interpretation, composition and recognition of her musical career. She was a founding member of the Pamplona Group of Composers (Iruñeako Taldea Musikagileak). He has been a member of the Council of Culture of the Government of Navarre and of the State Council for the Performing Arts and Music. He has directed the music section of several Meetings and Festivals.

He has received commissions from various national and international institutions and has given courses and lectures at Festivals, Institutions, Universities, Conservatories, highlighting the work done at the invitation of the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

Author of the treatise Sistemas compositivos temperados en el siglo XX, she also publishes articles in important books and magazines. Her creations for symphony orchestra, chamber music, solo instruments... are programmed in the most important international festivals (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Russia, USA, Holland, Cuba, Romania...). In 2011 he received the decoration of the Encomienda de la Orden al Mérito Civil.

JEAN PHILIPPE DURY (CHOREOGRAPHER)

Jean Philippe Dury began his dance studies at the age of six. He enters the dance school of the Paris Opera at the age of eleven and joins the company seven years later. During this period he also worked with renowned contemporary choreographers such as Lionel Hoche, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Laura Scozzi, Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Mats Ek, William Forsythe and Jirí Kylián.

In September 2007, invited by Nacho Duato, he joined the National Dance Company as a principal dancer. In 2009 Gradimir Pankov calls him as a guest artist at the Grands Ballets de Montréal. Back in Spain in 2010 he returns to the National Dance Company for the last season of its artistic director, Nacho Duato, and settles permanently in Madrid.

In 2013, Jean Philippe creates his own company Elephant in The Black Box and wins the first prize at the Talent Madrid festival with Cel Black Day. In 2106, Dury starts a comprehensive project for dance and young people that runs parallel to his work with EBB and invitations from international companies (Basel Ballet, Leipzig Opera Ballet) as a choreographer.

With more than fifteen choreographies he is also resident choreographer in Leipzig. EBB Dance Company tours in the United States, South Korea, Spain, France, Switzerland and participates in various festivals. Dury is a daring and innovative creator, demanding in the interpretation and technical registers whose choreographic trajectory is identified by his own language.

VALENTINA PEDICA (DANCER)

The Italian Valentina Pedica began her studies at Tersicore l' Arte della Danza in 1996. She continued her training at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid Mariemma and at a very young age she decided to start her professional career as a freelance, encouraged by many choreographers who appreciated her talent. She joined Dantzaz Konpaina and worked with Itzik Galili, Jacek Przybylowicz and Jone San Martin. In 2012 invited by Enzo Celli she participates in the creation MeMe. She is laureate of the First Contemporary Dance Prize in Spoleto 2013. She joins Elephant In The Black Box (EBB Dance Company) in September 2015, invited by Jean-Philippe Dury. She also teaches contemporary dance and improvisation classes for EBB Junior.

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