Danzantes del Alba | Dancers of the Dawn
Teatro Línea de Sombra
Friday, October 7, 2022 – Sunday, October 9, 2022
Theatre Passe Muraille – Main Stage
60 minutes
In English.
Danzantes del Alba is a phantom carnival which ritualizes the making of 36 festive costumes of the character, El loco de la danza. Several artisan workshops created these 36 costumes, including a group of old communist workers, the home of a Central American migrant woman who was earning money by crossing the border, a women’s cooperative who rescued an abandoned place and turned it into a small textile factory, and a collective of gay activists on the border with Guatemala.
Danzantes is a performative essay on the intersection of documentary research and the construction of landscapes on stage. At the end of this extraordinary dance / story, the audience is invited to explore the final installation and become part of the living landscape.
“Danzantes” deploys an intimate revelation of solidarity and distance that when shown is hidden. Celebration and lament. How can we live between joy and pain? It is the question which haunts the audience as ghosts of collective fears and energies of some hopes lurk between the costumes and the performers. Aren ́t we all dressed in merchandise produced anywhere on the planet and sold elsewhere? Aren’t our bodies also scraps of gestures and forms of production and trade?” (Rodrigo Parrini).
Director
Jorge A. Vargas
Research, writing and dramaturgy
Rodrigo Parrini
Artistic ethnography and coordination of costumes
Yanina Pelle
Artistic Collaboration
Eduardo Bernal
Space and Lighting
Jesús Hernández
Choreography
Zuadd Atala
Video for the scene
Javier García, Jessica Villamil, Sandra Perdomo
Sound Composition
Jesús Cuevas
Sound Design
Miguel Cicero
Mask Workshop and Toro Negro
Toztli Abril de Dios
Production Coordination
Adrián Mejía
Production Assistant
Paola Montoya
Technical Assistant
Adriana Flores
Photography and video in Topilejo and Ecatepec
Marialy Soto Becerril
Transalation
Svetlana Garza
Executive Production
Alicia Laguna
Image Design
Carlos Villajuárez
TLS Management
Patricia Díaz
English Translation
Stephanie Sherman
Performers
Zuadd Atala, Marisol Zepeda, Amed Martínez, Sofia Rodriguez, Victoria Mata, Irma Villafuerte, Sofi Ontiveros, Nico Solarte, Falciony Patiño
A co-production between:
Teatro UNAM ( Universidad Autónoma de México) Festival Internacional Cervantino and Teatro Línea de Sombra¨
About the artist
Teatro Línea de Sombra is an artistic project founded in Mexico City in 1993. Since then, they have formed an interdisciplinary group of collaborators. Their interests have been directed at exploring alternative systems of creation based on social research models to problematize their scenic creation practices and more specifically to approximate their concerns towards those different fields of knowledge.
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