t4/ OBRA DEL DEMONIO/ Diana Szeinblum

OBRA DEL DEMONIO was commissioned by Ciclo Invocaciones, curated by Mercedes Halfon and Carolina Martin Ferro. The cycle has been running for 10 years now, commissioning directors from the Buenos Aires scene, yet another canonical director in the history of 20th-century theater. Pina Bausch is the artist chosen by the curators for this invocation, at the crossroads with Diana Szeinblum, a long-standing choreographer, who in turn brought together twelve of the most outstanding dancers/choreographers on the current argentine dance scene.

OBRA DEL DEMONIO/ Diana Szeinblum

 

Bausch frees herself from the yoke of theater and joins the abstraction of dance creating a "theater of experience". It is here where the purpose of OBRA DEL DEMONIO anchors through the question: How to create experience in the theater of our days?

The work addresses what are perhaps the great themes of Pina's work: sexual-affective relationships, gender identities, grotesque humor, fear, loneliness, anguish, death, and love. Updating them to our community, to the sense of our time, blurring the binary of their characters and taking their gesture device to a completely different socio-historical reality, located in a Latin American context.

 

How to breathe together? What is a queer identity? What is love like in these times? What is the dance that my body entails? What does invoke mean? What is your own archive and what would a common archive look like? What is the value of materiality? The dance against the theater, the dance theater or the failure of the representation? How is Pina Bausch invoked? What does it mean to not narrate? What is a pure medium like? Could we imagine an eco-cyborg underworld as a future world? The dance. Is it the work of the devil?

 

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ARTISTIC SHEET

Dancers / choreography: 
Celia Argüello Rena - Pablo Castronovo- Hernán Franco-Iván Haidar-Bárbara Hang- Josefina Imfeld-Alina Marinelli-Margarita Molfino-Andrés Molina
Quillén Mut-Rodolfo Opazo- Florencia Vecino- Diego Velázquez


Visual artist:
Eduardo Basualdo

Original music
Ulises Conti
Sound design and live musical operation:
Ishmael Pinkler

Scenographic design:
Cecilia Zuvialde and Eduardo Basualdo
¨The scenery is an original work by Eduardo Basualdo and includes unpublished and pre-existing works that were adapted by the artist for this stage project¨

Costume Design:
Damasia Arias

Illumination design:
Alexander Le Roux
Lighting assistant:
Facundo David

Photography:
Jasmine Tesone

Curatorship and coordination Ciclo Invocaciones:
Mercedes Halfon and Carolina Martin Ferro.

Artistic collaboration:
Damiana Poggi

Choreography, dramaturgy and direction:
Diana Szeinblum