Performance in Cordoba

SHAPERS was presented in Sevilla and Córdoba on November 5th, 2017, as part of the 24th Edition of the MES DE DANZA Festival at C3A: Contemporary Creation Center of Andalusia, in partnership with the Casa Arabe (Córdoba).

Mes de Danza is an international festival of contemporary dance in Sevilla. Project partner and artistic director of the festival, Maria Gonzales chose to situate this performance in three very different places – at the Pavilion of the future at the historical Sevilla World Fair site, in the Sevilla penitentiary center, and in Cordoba, in front of the C3A: Contemporary Creation Center of Andalusia.

“The locations of each performance were radically different from each other, allowing the piece to explore different subjects and contours as well as to confront different audiences. In Seville, the performance was in the former site of the 1992 Seville World Expo, an abandoned place that came alive through SHAPERS. The other performance in Sevilla in the penitentiary center encountered a particular audience.

The third location, in Cordoba, radically in contrast with the ’92 Expo site, was a recently inaugurated space, the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Creation.

The choice of such divergent spaces highlighted the richness of this artistic project, offering the dancers challenges of different nature in each space.”

– Maria Gonzales, Artistic director of Mes de Danza


Mes de Danza [Seville, Spain]. Since its first edition in 1994, the main objective of Mes de Danza Festival is to explore dance in its widest and most varied approaches and trends and to link audiences -both familiar and unfamiliar with dance- to the performances. Beyond its role as a festival, Mes de Danza has contributed to shape and strengthen the local dance scene in Andalusia and Spain. www.mesdedanza.es

Performances in Sevilla

SHAPERS was presented as part of the 24th Edition of the MES DE DANZA Festival in Sevilla from October 28th – November 2nd, and in Cordoba on November 5th at:

– The Pavilion for the Future from the 1992 International Exhibition, designed by the architect Oriol Bohigas, in Sevilla, October 28th

– The Sevilla penitentiary, on November 2nd

– The C3A: Contemporary creation Center, in partnership with Casa Arabe, in Cordoba, November 5th

The choreographer and dancers adapted the piece to the location at the Pavilion for the Future during two days rehearsing on-site.

“The locations of each performance were radically different from each other, allowing the piece to explore different subjects and contours as well as to confront different audiences.

In Sevilla, the performance was at the former site of the 1992 Seville World Expo, an abandoned place that came alive through SHAPERS. The other performance in Sevilla, at the penitentiary center, encountered a particular audience.

The third location, in Cordoba, radically in contrast with the ’92 Expo site, was a recently inaugurated space, the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Creation. The choice of such divergent spaces highlighted the richness of this artistic project, offering the dancers challenges of different nature in each space.”

-Maria Gonzales, Artist director of the Mes de Danza festival


Mes de Danza [Seville, Spain]. Since its first edition in 1994, the main objective of Mes de Danza Festival is to explore dance in its widest and most varied approaches and trends and to link audiences -both familiar and unfamiliar with dance- to the performances. Beyond its role as a festival, Mes de Danza has contributed to shape and strengthen the local dance scene in Andalusia and Spain. www.mesdedanza.es

Sevilla artistic residency

At the Mes de Danza # 23 contemporary dance festival (October 26 – November 6), the SHAPERS project had its first artistic residency. This residency was held with the Moroccan and Egyptian dancers in the project, as well as the 2 Spanish dancers selected in the audition that preceded the residence.


Mes de Danza [Seville, Spain] Since its first edition in 1994, the main objective of Mes de Danza Festival is to explore dance in its widest and most varied approaches and trends, and to link performances with the audience (whether familiar or not with dance). Beyond its role as a festival, Mes de Danza has contributed to shape and strengthen the local dance scene, in Andalusia and Spain. www.mesdedanza.es

 

 

Workshop and Audition in Sevilla

A two-day workshop and audition took place October 17th and 18th in Sevilla, Spain. Following this workshop, two Spanish dancers were selected to join the creation of the choreographic piece, SHAPERS, during the artistic residency during the Mes de Danza Contemporary Dance Festival #23.

This was the first public presentation of the performance.

This phase of the project included getting in touch with local actors from the danse scene in Seville.

The two dancers selected from Spain:

Lucia Bocanegra
Elvira Balboa

 

 

 

 

 


Mes de Danza [Seville, Spain] Since its first edition in 1994, the main objective of Mes de Danza Festival is to explore dance in its widest and most varied approaches and trends, and to link performances with the audience (whether familiar or not with dance). Beyond its role as a festival, Mes de Danza has contributed to shape and strengthen the local dance scene, in Andalusia and Spain. www.mesdedanza.es