Columbario
Creation work of Choreography for the in house Dance Company of “Jorge Eliecer Gaitán” Theater.
From the proposal “Columbario” developed by Jorge Bernal, who with Maldita Danza has been working on the staging of the work for some time; the visual scope of the work is presented for presentation in large format with the dance company of the theater Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. His work has been essentially focused on the following guidelines:
“By stating that all artistic language has sound, image and movement, research will be carried out around the artist team’s concerns about the stage space and its sonic possibilities, linking sound and object as a primary actor in the scene. From this, the design is thought of as a sound-stage set according to the structure of a Columbarium (1) and with the characteristics of a pinhole camera (2). Throwing a theme that becomes a detonator of a narrative and conceptual support: death, the transformation of the dead body and the space it occupies. Having then the sound body as the main study of the action and the dead body as a study, axis of the plastic and narrative, the scenery becomes a large screen that glimpses the image and amplifies the sound: the body in motion, sound and the image are the protagonists.
Assuming space as a container of multiple languages, the creation laboratory will propitiate a loudspeaker, where each discipline will reveal their sonar vibrations in space, will interlace these possibilities sonaras and will be assumed from the particular views of each discipline, generating images from the dance, movement from the plastic and the narrative from the sound.
For the construction and composition of this scenic proposal we will take as a guideline the textures that can produce the sound and the image. We will focus on the idea of metamorphosis, seeking in the movement to evidence the travels generated by the transformation of matter. Each scene will leave a mark in the space, so that the spectator has the memory of what happened, of the action that died and was transformed. ”
With the introduction of Jorge’s proposal, they were taken as creative concepts of the work, not in the choreographic but in the visual aspect, which includes the scenography as a sound element, and conception of the make-up and costumes of the company’s dancers; as elements that together with the sound composition and the audiovisual proposal form the piece as a total work of art, in the Wagnerian sense of the opera.
Fotos: Carlos Mario Lema (IDARTES)
