Signos

The festival FAM 2022 Primavera is bringing the show Signos, by Isabel Villanueva and Antonio Ruz to Teatro Guimerá.

The origin of this project arose out of the desire of the violist Isabel Villanueva and the choreographer Antonio Ruz to collaborate on a multidisciplinary stage work that opens up a new window onto classical music and contemporary dance.

This gathering of languages proposes, without prejudice, a dialogue between sound, movement, voice, objects and light (or the absence of it).
Is it a dramatised concert? A choreographed viola concert? With a refined aesthetic concept and lighting design, the beautiful and complex sound architecture of the musical pieces/miniatures by the composers György Kurtág and Johann Sebastian Bach masterfully performed by Isabel, blend with the corporeal musical score proposed by Antonio; dramaturgy that navigates between the dreamlike, the poetic and the unsettling. In this atmosphere of accompanied solitude, Isabel and her viola, under the watch of Antonio (her alter ego, shadow, conscience), will undertake a physical and emotional journey that will not fail to make an impression on anyone.

“She plays sitting down, walks, gets onto the table, dances, lies down, sleeps, floats, runs, shouts, looks in the mirror, undresses, turns on the light, closes her eyes, smiles…’