In this award-winning dance and theatre play, several characters are wandering through a mysterious ocean liner

 

The Auditorio de Tenerife opens this weekend the programme of the 2024-2025 season with the magnificent dance show of the Belgian company Peeping Tom. The two performances of Triptych, The Missing Door, The Lost Room and The Hidden Floor, recognised by the Spanish Critics' Awards as the best international theatre production of 2023, are scheduled for this Friday (6th) and Saturday (7th), starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Symphony Hall.

The tickets are on sale for €15, €5 for those under 30. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people, large families and subscription holders of Ópera de Tenerife. Peeping Tom comes to the island with its award-winning Triptych, a haunting combination of dance and theatre in which the characters wander on an ocean liner between reality and what's imagined, lost in a cinematic, mysterious and macabre labyrinth.

Triptych is an adapted version of three short pieces Peeping Tom created for the Nederlands Dans Theater. Gabriela Carrizo directed the first part, The Missing Door, while Franck Chartier provided the two following pieces: The Lost Room and The Hidden Floor. Carrizo and Chartier wanted to bring these pieces into the Peeping Tom repertory so that they could continue performing them. Together, the choreographers reimagined the pieces for their company's dancers. In that sense, Triptych shows how different bodies, languages, and working methods can overlap and mutually benefit.

Each part of the trilogy has its stage and evokes a film set. The setting of The Missing Door is a room or hallway full of doors that cannot be opened. The action of The Lost Room takes place in a ship's cabin and focuses on the characters' inner worlds. The Hidden Floor takes place on the ship's abandoned restaurant stage, where the forces of nature have taken over. The sets are changed between each part before the audience as part of the show as if it were the live staging of a film.

Yet another layer is to be found in the new team of performers that Peeping Tom selected primarily for the characters of Triptych. Carrizo and Chartier focused on the new group's distinctive combination of technical qualities, straddling dance and theatre. With their physical vocabulary, the new dancers will trace new lines of memory across Triptych and the company.

The Peeping Tom company was founded in 2000 by the Argentinian Gabriela Carrizo and the Frenchman Franck Cartier and has presented its creations worldwide. Carrizo and Cartier have been honoured with several important awards, including the FEDORA Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet for La Visita, an Olivier Award in the United Kingdom for 32 rue Vandenbranden, and a Patrons Circle Award at the International Arts Festival in Melbourne as well as several selections for the Belgian and Dutch Theatre Festivals.

Triptych is recommended for audiences of 16 or older, as it includes scenes that some may find offensive. It makes use of nudity, graphic violence, disturbing content, adult themes and sex scenes, a smoke machine, startling sound effects and strobe lighting.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.