Human Landscapes

Presentation

Show selected in the PLATEA 25/26 Program

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This new production, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Alicia Soto Hojarasca Company, offers the audience a series of unrelated human scenes for an exercise in contemplation that focuses on the here and now.

Human Landscapes proposes an inner journey through an exercise in contemplation, setting aside rationality or the need to understand. Inspired by the nature of Ireland and Patagonia, this work immerses us in the act of carefully and thoughtfully observing reality, focusing our gaze on the here and now, embarking on an emotional journey that allows us to connect with ourselves. The performance showcases bodies that represent the Cartography of a human emotional landscape.

"In this work, not a single emotion, quality, vice, or human defect is missing […] Alicia Soto has put a lot of effort into treating the scenes in a very poetic way, but it is sometimes difficult to keep your eyes on the dancers without becoming disturbed and cringing during some scenes." 

Dance on Stage Magazine

Synopsis

Starlings, Soledando, Transhumando, Amando, Misericordiando and Renovando are the human scenes that transform and move on stage in relation to the movement of nature. Unconnected human scenes that show shadow, emptiness, identity, forgiveness, contemplation, love… and, finally, renewal.

After this exercise: What happens to the audience? Where are they going emotionally and psychologically? What is their state of mind?

Anti-Synopsis

Beyond consciousness, simply feel existence; dive into the unconscious; abandon body and soul to stillness and movement; see the silence; listen to the emptiness.

Knowing that the breath that animates us is the wind that brushes against the trees and the mountains; that the rivers of water turn into blood in our caves; that we run like fleeing animals or like anxious predators; that we know how to fly when we believe.

Glimpse the invisible loneliness; the shadow of forgiveness; the prophecy of creation.

Rescuing intimacy from nauseating noise; celebrating liberation from self.

Contemplate.

This is a show without an instruction book; without any great educator's narrative; without wanting to correspond to any ideological agenda.

It is a show from the heart; a tribe of artists from diverse fields who take on the freedom to dance, feel, think and create together; sharing their desires, inquiries, dreams and life experiences.

By Julio Martin Da Fonseca.

artistic sheet

Stage direction and choreography: Alicia Soto

Dramaturgy: Julio Martin da Fonseca, Dina Figueiredo and Alicia Soto

Assistant director and choreographer: Encarni Sánchez

Musical creation: Abdellah M.Hassak

Lighting design: Miguel Angel Camacho

Stage design and costumes: Elisa Sanz

Dancers-performers: Lorenza di Calogero, Selam Zapater, Sara Canet,

Encarni Sánchez, Deivid Barrera and Oriol Roca.

Contributor: Paloma Calderon.

Production: Carmen Fernandez – The Company of Light

Duration: 70 minutes.

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Project

This project has the collaboration of Burgos City Council, the Calderón Theater in Valladolid, León City Council, and Serrada City Council.

To create the show, artist residencies were held at the Teatro Principal in Burgos, the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid, and the Teatro Ismael Alonso Serrada.

Premiere: September 28, 2024. Calderón Theater, Valladolid.