Claudia Castellucci in Madrid
Dramatist, choreographer and teacher, co-founder of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio company (now Societas), Claudia Castellucci has been carrying out her own research on rhythmic movement for decades, research awarded with the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Danza 2020: “sober, serious, minimalist and demanding choreographer, who works with sacrality at her art”.
The artist will be in Madrid on February 21 and 22, guest of the Teatros Canal. The theatre hosts the Spanish premiere of Sahara, the new dance by the Mòra Company she directs, and the presentation of the Spanish translation of her book Setta. Scuola di tecnica drammatica (Sect. School of drama technique) (2015, published in Italy by Quodlibet): Secta. Escuela de técnica dramática, published by Ediciones La uÑa RoTa.
In Sahara, Claudia Castellucci’s choreographic and philosophical research deals with the dimension of the desert: «Creating out of nothing is the secret ambition of art. The desert, in its extreme monotony in time and space, offers the conditions to follow a different way and demonstrate that it is possible to produce another world, even when one has only oneself as a raw material. Dance has, as its sole –first and last– instrument, only oneself».
While in Claudia Castellucci’s previous dances the Dancers’ mental tension was implied by the interpretation of a rigorous choreographic structure to be awakened, here, dance is increasingly encouraged to assert itself as an art of flagrancy. A considerable amount of their efforts is expressed by an immediate decision made by each of the Dancers, who are deprived of any model.
Sahara is on stage on February 21 and 22 at 7 pm. The book presentation is on February 22 at 5:30 pm, still at the Teatros Canal, in a public meeting attended by Carlos Rod, director of Ediciones La uÑa RoTa, Cristina Lesmes, the translator, and Álvaro Vicente, content and editing coordinator of the magazine “Revista Dramática”.
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video - Setta. Scuola di tecnica drammatica (in Quodlibet website - IT)