Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla
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AHORA DANZA 2024 · YEINNER CHICAS / COLECTIVO LAS MAÑAS, GERO DOMÍNGUEZ & NURIA ESTÉBANEZ y ÀNGEL DURÁN PERFORMING ARTS
16 May- 20:00
Date: Jueves 16 de mayo, 2024
Time: 20 h.
Location: CICUS · Patio
Yeinner Chicas / Colectivo Las Mañas (Nicaragua/Zaragoza)
“METAMORFOSIS 2.0”
Metamorfosis 2.0 talks about how every living thing needs to create a system of evolution and a series of changes that allow a safe adaptation for their survival. These processes appear as answers to the constant alterations of the environment in which said species lives. Through this work, the artist proposes a metaphor of their own life experience.
This performance emerges as a necessity to expose the process of adaptation of every living thing. In addition, it rises in relation with images and movements of the flora and fauna of the territories in which the artist has lived until today, being influenced by the environment that surrounds him.
Creator and performer: Yeinner Chicas
Music: Andy Stott “On Oath”, “Time away”
Vídeo: Teresa Magallón
Photography: Vaitiare San Ginés, Festival Traslación
Duration: 15' aprox.
Yeinner Chicaswas born in Nicaragua and lives in Spain. He is a choreographer and dancer, he studied Contemporary Dance and Nicaraguan Folkore. He has worked in Finland with the Alpo Aaltokoskki of Helsinki Company. He has excelled in stage and audiovisual productions, winning the Certamen Coreográfico Sólodos en Danza (Costa Rica, 2015) and the Certamen Sólo Improvisa de la Sala Cuarta Pared (Madrid, 2023). He was also nominated as best performer of the Premios Butaca de Cataluña awards for his work on the piece Cowards by Àngel Durán. Chicas has been part of the Centro Coreográfico de La Rioja and has realized an investigation residency at the Centro Coreográfico Canal de Madrid in 2021, alongside Max Sanford. He is exploring constantly, and he ventures on contemporary creation, experimenting with theatre, the circus and the experimental voice, mixing his folkloric and indigenous roots with the contemporary scene.
https://yeinnerchicas.wixsite.com/website
Gero Domínguez & Nuria Estébanez: El Primer Círculo
EL PRIMER CÍRCULO
(Premiere on Sevilla. Nominated for Best Street Performance, 10th Premios Lorca awards)
The rotatory platform is the first circle, it is limbo. The limbo is the beginning of circulation through a space of loss without an apparent direction, a no man’s land. From this ground zero, a path divided in different stages commences:
Stillness. Movement passes without us realising, there is another tempo and perspective. It places us without knowing too well where. We do not see further than ourselves.
Loss. After obstruction. We look for something, not sure what we will find. Shifts of perspectives, axis, other spaces in other bodies.
Support. We need support to go on, to not get lost or to not go wrong in the search.
New beginning. By glimpsing the end of a phase, the next one begins.
It is a cyclical process. Looking up will change our perspective.
Our instrument to show it is our body. Working with two corporal languages, the flamenco and contemporary dance, where contact is the nexus between them.
Original concept: Gero Domínguez
Artistic direction, choreography, and performance: Nuria Estébanez and Gero Domínguez
Design and construction of the platform: Salvador Benítez. Wardrobe: Enrique Vicent
Photography, video, design: Micky Domínguez
Duration: 15'
Gero Domíngueztrained in the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Sevilla, he excelled in Madrid as a soloist at the Teatro Reina Victoria and the Teatro Arenal, as well as in international tours and collaborations with musicians like Mino Cinelu and directors like Calixto Bieito. He founded his own company in 2011, presenting successful montages in international festivals as part of the circuit of the Red Acieloabierto. His work La Cabra, in collaboration with Miguel Marín and Benito Charneco, received praises from the critics and the public. With La Cabra, he is part of the circuit of the Diputación de Sevilla and the Red Andaluza de Teatros. In addition, he collaborates with the saxophonist Gautama del Campo, and he is currently submerged on the tour Los Cuerpos Celestes, of the company Marco & Chloe; they were finalists on the Premios Max awards and won the Premios Lorca awards 2022.
In addition, he collaborates with the saxophonist Gautama del Campo, and he is currently submerged on the tour Los Cuerpos Celestes, of the company Marco & Chloe; they were finalists on the Premios Max awards and won the Premios Lorca awards 2022.
Furthermore, Nuria Estébanez initiated her training in classical dance in Malaga, continuing with contemporary dance studies at the Centro Andaluz de Danza and completing her degree in Education at the University of Malaga. She has worked with a few companies, the most notable her participation in national and international productions. Currently, she is a dancer in REA Danza, and she collaborates with the company Gero Domínguez. She balances her artistic career with teaching and acting.
Àngel Durán Performing Arts (Barcelona)
“CLINCH”
Men touch each other with blows. An energetic duo about masculine construction. A deconstruction of the contemporary virile behaviour, acclaimed by some and questioned by many. CLINCH in boxing is the moment in which the two boxers hug and block each other until the referee separates them. This movement is about getting as close as possible to your rival to protect yourself from their attack. CLINCH exposes the most toxic masculinity, established in the competition, the denial and the confrontation to all that is different. Furthermore, the denial of feelings, excluding rage or fury, that must be demonstrated through the exercise of violence. «Los hombres se tocan a golpes» Un dúo enérgico sobre la construcción masculina. Una deconstrucción del comportamiento viril contemporáneo, aclamado por unos y cuestionado por muchos. CLINCH en boxeo hace referencia al momento en que los dos luchadores se abrazan y se bloquean hasta que el árbitro los separa. Se trata de acercarse al rival al máximo para protegerse del ataque del mismo.CLINCH expone la masculinidad más tóxica, instaurada en la competición, la negación y la confrontación a todo lo diferente. También la negación de los sentimientos, exceptuando la rabia o la ira, que debe demostrarse a través del ejercicio de la violencia.
Choreographer: Àngel Durán
Performers: A. Durán e Yeinner Chicas.
With the support of: Espacio SóLODOS Costa Rica, Nantai, Roca Umbert Fàbrica de Creació, Festus Festival
DURACIÓN: 22 minutos
Àngel Duránstudied dance at the SEAD (Salzburgo, Austria) and Art and Design at the UAB, he has worked for various choreographers and European companies. Since 2018, he is developing his most personal creative project with Àngel Durán Performing Arts, company with which he has obtained various international prizes. His work focuses on the exploration of the human condition through the exploration of corporal language, staking for the new dramaturgy.
Circuito 2024 – Red Acieloabierto
En colaboración con Eléctrica Cultura, Red Acieloabierto, e INAEM-Ministerio de Cultura.
