He Dansa Valencia takes a step forward in 2019, grows quantitatively and qualitatively. Marginal content, we will have more budget, more days, more shows and more companies than last year, eight absolute premieres and one own production that, outside the official dates [26-28/4], rereads Valencian popular culture in a contemporary key. The alcoyana Sun chopped directs in animal Drain to eight dancers who take us from the complex current rhythm of life, loaded with vibrant and accelerated stimuli, to a more organic and natural one. There will be live music, like in nine of the 28 shows (13 Valencians) that make up a program marked leitmotif “music and sound”. The other powerful bet of the festival comes from Basque lands, Kukai Dance with the hangover of the success achieved in the MAX awards 2017. This company that fuses traditional Basque dance with new performing languages comes from the hand of Sharon Fried To present Rite [13/4], a vital journey that goes through the different states of life in relation to nature and the community. And we give you two more names in the section of established artists: In The nudity [14/4], the National Dance Award Daniel Abreu suggests a walk between love and death; and in Set of sets [11/4], Guy Nader and Maria Campos (Gnimc) explore the perception of time, memory and lived experiences.
Another of the festival's anchors is its commitment to making room for living arts., those that mix dance, clown, mime and other performing arts with other visual arts, plastic and written. In this direction walks, For example, Alberto Cortés and his Massacre in Nebraska [11/4], an open piece that has to be articulated live, giving voice to the public and approaching local narratives and their stories. They have also been invited to participate in the Young Promises Festival such as the Brazilian Pooliana Lima, what, in Here, always [9/4] Up on stage four women from different generations, countries, Life and dance forms to explore the interrelation between them. O Jesús Rubio Gamo, that has created an extended version of its duo Bolero, Built on the famous Ravel score. The new piece is called Great bolero [9/4], It is interpre, market to them Blossom and Conde Duque Cultural Center.
And we end up with three artists from the house. Before collado was selected to represent Spain in the 18 Biennale of young creators from Europe and the Mediterranean with the piece created at the TEM, Nereo drowning (and the Nereids), and after a research residency at the Teatros del Canal, will premiere in La Mutant Chrysalis (or the revenge of Lethe) [12/4]. Your starting point is the following: we perceive that our time is much freer, much more relaxed than ever, y, even so, we keep feeling like we've lost something crucial. What has been forgotten? Also premieres show Irene Curtina, Away [14/4], that studies the construction of personal identity and how it is influenced by culture, heritage and interpersonal relationships. Finally, Mou Dansa launches a socially committed proposal, #outfit [11/4], a complaint of compulsive consumption, labor exploitation and the environmental impact derived from the cheap labor textile industry. S.M.
