The MUN presents the world premiere of Noces, a co-production with the Navarre-based Led Silhouette and the Pamplona Chamber Choir.

It is a proposal that revisits a classic from the contemporary language, a perfect opportunity for young audiences or those who do not know dance to approach it.

The Museo Universidad de Navarra has among its pillars the new artistic production in its diverse areas. It also declares a firm commitment to the interdisciplinary. Thus, together with Led Silhouette and the Pamplona Chamber Choir, it presents Noces, a title that combines dance and live music, with 9 dancers, a 24-member choir, several soloists, four pianists and two percussionists. A unique proposal, because, as the artistic director of the MUN, Teresa Lasheras, points out, "it is rare to enjoy contemporary dance with live music". The last tickets for the premiere on Friday 31 can be purchased at the box office and on the web.

This proposal is inspired by Les Noces, a work that Bronislava Nijinska choreographed for the Ballets Russes with music by Igor Stravinsky, and now adds compositions by Lorca and Carles Suriñat. As David Gálvez, director of the Choir, explains, it is "one of the capital works in the history of music, but also in the history of dance. It is undoubtedly a brief, concise and concentrated example of the conjunction of the arts: so few means (apparently) for such a great result. For this reason alone, the music of Les Noces is already a masterpiece in the history of art".

The artistic director of the MUN, Teresa Lasheras, agrees on "the heritage element of this very relevant work: the original version, from 1923, is a milestone in the history of dance. The fact that Led Silhouette and the Coral take it as a source of inspiration to generate a new version is a way of showing that, in the living arts, heritage lives when it is staged; it is always an inexhaustible source of creation, an engine that nourishes contemporary creation".

The new show, completes Gálvez, "scrupulously respects" the original work "and projects it even more if possible, generating a dialogue with the music that Lorca dreamed for his Weddings through the musical muscle of Suriñach". Thus, "Noces will propose two musical textures: the one we call 'pit' more hieratic, which speaks of the rite, of the house, of the fixed and apparently well-armed structures; and the 'scene', something more organic, more alive, which shows the sanguine face of the wedding rite, which speaks of home and of the people who inhabit it and leave it, enjoy it and suffer it," he reveals.

Noces, as the co-creator and co-director of Led Silhouette Martxel Rodriguez explains, has "very present the idea of duality between house and home, and the people who inhabit our lives or simply pass by without stopping. In short -she summarizes-, we reflect on the daily rituals that build our survival, because the human being is a necessarily ritual animal". About her creation, Teresa Lasheras emphasizes that in Led Silhouette 's choreography there is "a great theatrical charge and the staging has an almost audiovisual character due to the scenery, the scenic movement, the sound environment..." and concludes that it is "a modern version of the great classic, which abandons the cold ritualism of the original version to approach the present through a more complex and vertiginous aesthetic and choreographic language".

Thus, the work raises the resignification of the home, a space of care, affection, pleasure, learning, rest... but also, sometimes, of violence, frustration, trauma and pain. Martxel Rodríguez says that the audience will not find answers to these questions, but will be invited to ask questions: "Each spectator will be able to find his or her own vibration with the proposal".

Regarding the link with the MUN, for Led Silhouette this is "a truly stimulating experience", considering it "a space that in recent years has become a benchmark for the performing arts". They are also finding it "intense and very enriching" to be able to work with the Pamplona Chamber Choir, which they describe as "a luxury and a challenge", as it is their first project with live music.

For her part, Teresa Lasheras also values this alliance: "Led and the Coral are Navarre companies with a clear look at contemporaneity that join forces for the first time. The reflection on the bonds that take shape around the home is always a topical issue and is directly linked to mental health and emotional well-being," she says.

The MUN tries to be useful to the creators of the world of dance, supporting productions that are in tune with its interest in offering the younger public occasions of meaningful encounters with the arts," he adds. It doesn't matter if you've never seen dance before, it doesn't matter if you've never heard Stravinskybefore", but anyone can enjoy this "opportunity to discover that these are languages that can question and interest you, that can tell you things. If we achieve this, it would be a great success for us," he concludes.

Noces is one of the nine shows that make up the VIII edition of the cycle Museo en Danzasupported by INAEM, DNA - Festival de Danza Contemporánea de Navarra, the Government of Navarra and the City Council of Pamplona. In addition, this new production is supported by Zurich Seguros.