The feminine world inspires this winner of the Institut del Teatre’s 2019 Dance Prize. The show uses flamenco to explore women’s psyche and bodies and highlights their fragile yet powerful nature.
We talk about women through the language of movement, and we do so using the resources offered by contemporary flamenco and working from a circular structure of a cycle of 28 days, 672 hours, 40,320 minutes marked by the moon, during which the fertility of women’s bodies fluctuates. The bodies of the women you will see on stage are exhausted, enraptured, and go through different respiratory and, therefore, emotional states. The menstrual cycle – menstruation (new moon), pre-ovulation (waxing moon), ovulation (full moon) and pre-menstruation (waning moon) – structures a cyclical piece based on the movement of bodies, the human voice, letters and silences.
LUAº aims to delve into the depths of the feminine world and bring to the stage the moment a woman looks in the mirror and sees all that she is. Andrea Jiménez works with the vocabulary of the body and flamenco rhythm, which coexist on the stage of contemporary creation, and, at the same time, uses elements of dances rooted in other parts of the world to persevere in her research into the circle as a choreographic resource, as a rhythmic and social structure and as a mechanism to simultaneously represent both everything and nothing.
This artist graduated from the Higher Conservatoire of Dance, specialising in Choreography and Performance, and from the Professional Conservatoire of Dance in Spanish Dance. In late 2019, this choreographic piece by Andrea Jiménez won the Dance Prize awarded by the Institut del Teatre in collaboration with the Grec Festival Barcelona, among other Catalan performance and creation spaces related to the world of dance, in order to promote the work of young creators by offering them support in the production and exhibition of their projects.
A Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona and Institut del Teatre production.
This piece won the Institut del Teatre’s 2019 Dance Prize.
Director and choreographer: Andrea Jiménez Performed by: Andrea Fernández, Aida González, Andrea Jiménez, Marina Paje, Chantal Soler Music: Mario G. Cortizo Music director: Mario G. Cortizo Musicians: Alba Guerrero, Håvard Enstad, Xavi Lozano, Mario G. Cortizo, Nieves Cotón, José Rama Assistant director and movement choreographer: Sandra Barroso Costumes: Raquel Eme, Amàlia Márquez Lighting design: Cube.bz Sound design/sound conception: Mario G. Cortizo Photography and video: Mar Badal, Tristán Pérez-Martín Produced by: AnCorae Danza Acknowledgements: Graner, Centre for Creation; L’Estruch, Creation Factory; Institut del Teatre; Grec Festival de Barcelona; IT Project-Laboratory for Research through Flamenco
