UNSOUND, BABYLON, DEMODÉ.

XXVII Festival Madrid en Danza/Madrid in Dance Festival.  The Compañía Nacional de Danza presents a programme consisting of three original and intrinsically Spanish-flavored choreography pieces.  These three works together display the talent of the choreography, the elegance and the modernity of our national auteurs.  With this triple offering, the new CND reemphasizes their commitment to promoting and increasing the visibility of the culture and dance of Spain within and beyond our borders.


Unsound Arqués & Vierthaler based their work on a philosophical study of the actions/emotions lived on a daily basis, their most crucial motivation.  The “relationships” played a key role in the concept of movement, determined by a number of opposites:   evolution  - regression
       freedom – binds
                       closenes – distance
                                   communication - silence
                                                generosity – selfishness
                                                                    desire – repulsion
                                                                                  trust – betrayal   These difficult, yet- perhaps due to their difficulty- familiar, actions/emotions were chosen because they determine the mental health and physical comfort, as well as the amount of trauma, that mankind is able to withstand.  Relationships are what makes individuals feel alive, regardless of whether one is unaware of them or their beneficial effects, and this is what is being explored in Unsound through a movement-dialogue that has no borders.
  Babylon Dynamics as a starting point for an underworld anchored in the metrics of the richness of movement, propelled by a latent and mighty multicellular humanity, which moves us from the verticality of the human being, in stark contrast with the horizontality of the soul.  It is in that painful duality that I move, pulled by the forces that govern us, from the infinite planes of the emotional dance, the half-breed vectors of a mental color in exodus at a distant Zion.   A journey can begin only with movement.
Demodé “Haven't you ever seen your own reflection in a store window, looked around and wondered, what is in?  Is it en vogue or demodé?  It seems that it's fashionable to not be emotional.  It seems that it's cool to constantly avoid one's demons and one's passions.  I wonder, what am I doing?  Is the need to know what I'm doing and why really so great?  I could never create something from thin air.  I'm inevitably laden with memories, with past essences that continue to teach and inspire me.  And I wonder, who isn't?  Fads, ideologies, style and artistic trends are fleeting.  They come back and are transformed.  What is undeniable is that the end result, the artistic work itself, regardless of the elements that make it up, is something new in of itself.” Iván Pérez

  UNSOUND Choreography concept Juanjo Arques and Heidi Vierthaler collaborating with the CND dancers
Music Gavin Bryars, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto, Andy Moor, Miguel Ángel Clerc
Lighting Design Tatiana Reverto and Antonio Regalado Fernández
Stage Design Marc Koehler Architects
Wardrobe Design Juanjo Arqués
Video Projection Heidi Holkenborg
Assistant Choreographers Charlotte Chapelier, Jose Carlos Blanco

BABYLON Choreography Arantxa Sagardoy and Alfredo Bravo
Music Dimitri Shostacovich, Symphony No. 8 Opus 65
Stage Design and Fashion Sketches Arantxa Sagardoy and Alfredo Bravo
Lighting Design Dermot O´Brien
Wardrobe Creation CND Tailoring
  DEMODÉ Choreography Iván Pérez
Music Luis Miguel Cobo
Stage Design, Fashion Sketches and Lighting Design Iván Pérez
Wardrobe Creation CND Tailoring