Mariana 

The FAM Festival (Arts and Movement Festival) has scheduled the show Mariana by Luz Arcas I La Phármaco Company at Teatro Guimerá. 

Mariana is the name of the goat that accompanies the wandering Roma, dancing in makeshift shows and providing its owners with a livelihood. Mariana is the mule that pulls the peasant's plough, the beast of burden of the labourer and the donkey on which the Messiah rides. The female animal is the body that does the work, regardless of time or period. In this work, singing stimulates and encourages the productive force, and the body freely recreates the beast's strength driven by the beat of the organs, as in the cantes a palo seco (a cappella flamenco singing). It is moved not by the archaeology of essences but by the pure desire to find form, order and eloquence.

The cuerpo jondo (deep body) emanates energy, life and death, and that is its radical and archaic modernity. The cuerpo jondo bursts into dance, like tears, sweat or laughter, with power and with shame, where the process is just as evident as the result. Languages are impure blends of dissimilar elements, like any living thing. A dance sculpted in stone and clay; schematic, rough-hewn and precise, like altars, amulets or tools. A dance that is as abstract and symbolic as it is utilitarian and material.