Acciones sencillas

“The best thing is the reason for all that display of brilliance. Less is a lot. A simple question, strong, easy and yet difficult at the same time: What is dance? What constitutes that fleeting experience? And what connects us, as spectators, to that moment? And beyond the body that moves; the incorporated sonority; the gesture packed with fragments of the history of dance; the circular and repetitive line; and the effort and spirit; there is a perception of the connection that this art is capable of transmitting, while blurring its own essence. Because there is no better explanation than knowing how embedded movement and dance are in human existence.”

JORDI SORA I DOMENJÓ, Escena de la Memoria

http://escenadelamemoria.blogspot.com/2021/07/acciones-sencillas.html

“Thus, with almost nothing, the Madrid creator once again showed us that a lot can come from a little. A very ingenious work.”

OMAR KHAN, Revista de Danza SusyQ

https://susyq.es/actualidad/1400-las-diez-de-2021

“After Acciones Sencillas, the work of Jesús Rubio Gamo has become essential”

MARÍA DELGADO and ANTON PUJOL, European Stages

https://europeanstages.org/2021/11/23/festival-grec-2021/

“In an almost perpetual movement in which very beautiful solos alternate with duos and several choral scenes, reminiscences emerge in our imagination of Renaissance painting, Greek sculptural series or impressionist paintings,

cleverly lit by Marqueríe. Images of the endless ways that the human body has been represented -the only certainty that we have possessed for thousands of years- but packed with life thanks to Rubio and the eight performers who fill the stage. A truly magnificent work.”

ROSALÍA GÓMEZ, El Diario de Sevilla

https://www.diariodesevilla.es/ocio/Jesus-Rubio-Acciones-sencillas-Teatro-Lope-de-Vega_0_1683732145.html

One has always been moving, one is born moving. One sees other bodies moving and learns to understand the feeling contained in those movements that one sees. One walks and feels the sensation that they had already imagined that the person they saw walking had, before them. One learns to turn because one captures the energy emanated by the person who turns. One jumps, one falls, one touches, one embraces, one is intertwined... One sees a bird and can imagine what the bird feels when it flies. But one cannot fly. One dances the first few times without yet knowing that what they are doing has a name. Then one sees people who move in amazing ways. It seems they are flying; it seems they are endlessly turning; it seems they have legs that are like arms.... One asks: what is that? The answer comes: they are dancing. And then one knows they also want to dance, because they feel what those other bodies are feeling but wish to feel it even more, they need to feel what there is on those boundaries. That is where a journey begins. You begin to practice actions, steps, movements, positions, sequences. You don’t think too much. You do, repeat, practice, look for the angle, the way, sometimes you focus on the form and at other times you place trust in the feeling. Then you lose yourself. You see yourself with all of that and you don’t really know what to use it for, how it can be used. You have seen some bodies filling those codes, challenging them, with all their strength and all their history and all their tiredness and all their plenitude. You know that they are there for everyone, they are also yours. You just need to find your way. What are you going to fill them with? Where do you begin?

Jesús Rubio Gamo