In 2019, Aracaladanza presented Play at the Barcelona Grec Festival, a show with a clear commitment to colourful costumes and specially worked music and lighting, focusing on the world of games. Loop, the company’s latest offering, starts exactly where its performance of Play ends. And that’s because audiences will see the stage from an unusual perspective, from behind, as if they were behind the scenes. Great applause. Everything’s ended. Or maybe everything's beginning, because start and end in this show meet and form a kind of eternal loop. We’ll be party to the dismantling work and seeing the artists and current technical staff above and below until the stage is left clean. Only one dancer under the floodlight... And that’s because she and her companions, not to mention the theatre’s staff, floodlights, the flies, the linoleum floor, the ventilators and a whole series of materials regularly used for setting a scene, are the subject matter of this show, a full declaration of love for stage sets and the magic that turns an empty space into something that audiences, artists and creators of every kind would like to imagine.
This is the new offering from a theatre company established in Madrid in 1995, directed by the choreographer Enrique Cabrera. Aracaladanza has become a benchmark in the performing arts in the Spanish State and is the recipient of numerous FETEN (Feria Europea de Teatro para Niños y Niñas de Gijón) awards and several Max awards and has been unanimously acclaimed by public and critics alike. The company boasts an international career that has taken it on tour through Europe, America, Asia and Africa, and creates shows based on simple stories that fire the imagination not just of its youngest audiences but also among adults, taking them all on a journey to new territories, using movement, light, costumes and music. They came to the Grec in 2016 with the show Vuelos, taking theirs inspiration from the world of Leonardo da Vinci, and in 2019, with the above-mentioned Play.
This show is recommended for audiences aged 4 and over.
A production from the Barcelona Grec Festival 2022 and Aracaladanza.
In collaboration with Albacete Provincial Council’s Educational and Cultural Service.
Idea and director: Enrique Cabrera Choreography: Enrique Cabrera in collaboration with the performers Assistant choreographer: Raquel de la Plaza Performed by: Carolina Arija, Jorge Brea, Raquel de la Plaza, Jonatan de Luis, Jimena Trueba, Aleix Rodríguez (cover) Original music: Luis Miguel Cobo Set and costume design: Elisa Sanz (AAPEE) Lighting design: Pedro Yagüe (AAI) Video-scene design: Álvaro Luna (AAI) Design and tooling: Ricardo Vergne (AAPEE) Costume maker: Verónica Expósito and Mer Lacostu Curtain painting: María Calderón Stage design: Mambo Decorados Photography: Pedro Arnay Executive producer: Patricia Torrero General production and press: Javier Torres Ochandiano National distribution: Alberto Muyo International distribution: Ana Sala - Ikebanah Artes Escénicas
