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.
Dance: Luz Arcas
Voice: Bonela Hijo
Percussions and synthesiser: Carlos González
Cornet: Abraham Romero
Guitar: Bonela Chico
Singing, hand-clapping and foot-stomping: Lola Dolores
Artistic direction, choreography, stage space: Luz Arcas
Dramaturgic accompaniment: Rafael SM Paniagua
Movement and body accompaniment: Patricia Caballero
Stage and musical assistance: Abraham Gragera
Artistic and costume assistance: Ernesto Artillo
Flamenco adviser: Charo Martín
Lighting: Jorge Colomer
Sound space: Pablo Contreras
Technical direction: Cristina Bolívar
Technicians on tour: José Espigares and Pablo Contreras
Photographies and videos: Virginia Rota, Alejandra Amere and Jorge Colomer
Graphic design: María Peinado
Production: Alberto Núñez and Alex Foulkes
Executive production: Fernando Jariego
In co-production with the Bienal de Flamenco of Seville, Teatros del Canal of Madrid and MA scène nationale - Pays de Montbéliard (France).
Recommended for people over 16 years of age.