Mother Tongue
Ogmia : Eduardo Vallejo Pinto

  Friday 25 Oct
  12.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
  5€* (includes MUN entrance fee)

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*If you buy your tickets for any Museo en danza show before August 31, enjoy a 15% discount by applying the code ANTICIPA24. 

Mother tongue is a contemporary dance piece that highlights the individual difference of each being. We are pure changing nature.

Composed for two performers, Mother Tongue emphasizes, through movement, that the path of life leaves its mark. As a counterpoint to change, the roots, represented in the movement, are built from them with pieces of our historical, political, cultural and personal context.

The creator Eduardo Vallejo Pinto culminates with Mother Tongue his research on movement as a fingerprint. We all have a unique movement fingerprint that has been configured from our roots and the computation of our experiences. Vallejo, originally from Mieres (Asturias), leaves his homeland and begins his career as a dancer and later as a choreographer, with a constant geographical change, which affects the modification of his movement, of which he is aware and takes record to accompany and complement his research on movement as a fingerprint over the years.

ARTISTIC DATA
Direction, Concept and Choreography: Eduardo Vallejo Pinto
Performers: Eduardo Vallejo Pinto and Nabar Jon Ander
Dramaturgy: Eduardo Vallejo Pinto
Original Music and Sound Space: Iván Solano
Lighting Design: Paloma Cavilla
Costume Design: Eduardo Vallejo Pinto
Pattern Making and Dressmaking: Paola de Diego and Marisa Sánchez
Scenographic Elements: Kikekeller
Production: Batbox Productions
Executive Producer: Diego Cabia
Filmmaker: Belén Herrera de la Osa
Scenic Photography: Alba Muriel Meléndez
Press and Communication: Elena Garrán
Synopsis text: Marta Abad
Support: Tour grants from the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music.
2022. Aid from the CCAA of Madrid to the Production of AAEE 2021.
With the collaboration of: Teatro del Bosque, Centro Coreográfico María Pagés, Centro Coreográfico Canal.
Canal Choreographic Center.

EDUARDO VALLEJO
Director and choreographer, he has developed his professional career in classical and contemporary dance in several European and Middle Eastern institutions. In addition to his dance training, he has also complemented his knowledge in martial arts, plastic arts, photography and dramaturgy. She founds Ogmia, her own company, in 2019.

In addition to his creative work, Eduardo Vallejo has shared his knowledge and experience through his pedagogical work in institutions such as the John Moore Liverpool University / Institute of the Arts in Barcelona, the Joven Compañía, the Jove Companyia de dansa Gerard Collins, Elephant in the Black Box, the Conservatorio Superior de Alicante, among others.

In his constant search for his own artistic language, Eduardo has developed the research process Movimiento Dactilar, an approach that can be described as an anthropological and cognitive-behavioral analysis of movement. Eduardo Vallejo's work is characterized by its formal and poetic strength, which translates into an unmistakable style. His recurring themes include political and social criticism, gender roles, interpersonal relationships and their consequences.
 

OGMIA COMPANY
Eduardo Vallejo Pinto founded Ogmia in 1019, a company that has received support and residencies from important institutions such as the Compañía Nacional de Danza, Centro Coreográfico Canal, Teatros del Canal, Teatro del Bosque, INAEM, Comunidad de Madrid, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, among others.

With his first creation "No Time to Rage", Eduardo was nominated in four categories of the MAX Awards: best dance show, best choreography, best male performer and best musical composition for stage show. Other creations have followed, such as "Mother Tongue" (2022), "Glass House" (2023), etc. Ogmia and Eduardo Vallejo have participated in festivals such as the Festival Internacional Madrid en Danza, Festival Internacional Danza Xixón, TANZ Theatre International Hannover, MASDANZA, among others. They have taken their creations to countries such as Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.