In ‘A BEGINNING’, five dancers and singers take to the stage in darkness. Sparingly illuminated with hand-held lights, their songs flood the space.
For the artists Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou, light becomes an object that reveals more about voices than bodies. Meanwhile the darkness encourages the public to use their imagination and to notice what is felt but not seen.
In this piece Bauzà and Jou have developed a practice of physicality and movement that displays two movements in a single body: the movement in the singing that is audible and the movements that are visible.
At the same time, the darkness alters our sense of space and time. The boundaries between the bodies of the performers and those of the public become blurred: the piece turns into a journey and theatrical story about the eternal dialectic between the individual and the collective, between movement and voice, darkness and light.
A Warm-up will take place in the foyer of Kammerspiele before the performance (19:00 Uhr) as well as a “Meet the Artists” after the show.
Language: Rumanian, English, Latin
Credit: Anna Fabrega
Creation and Direction Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
Performance Maider Lasa, Isaac Baró, Diana Pop, Esther Bachs und Pere Jou
Music und Sound Aurora Bauzà
Choreography Pere Jou
Light Jou Serra
CostumeMariona Signes
Dramaturgical and choreographic collaboration Alessandro Sciarroni
Movement assistance Claudia SolWat
Lightning technique Gemma Abellán
Production and support Ariadna Miquel
Management Art Republic
Acknowledgements Cube peak, Africa Sabé und Iguzzini
Co.produced by L’Auditori und Centre Coregraphique National d’Orleans (Frankreich)
With the support of Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics, Graner Fàbrica de Creació Nau Estruch, Hèmisphère Son, Castell de Montjuïc, und CC Barceloneta
Currently there are no upcoming performances of this Program.