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1 Innovation AWARD Best Dramaturgy AWARD Best Sound Space AWARD FERIA INTERNACIONAL DE ARAGÓN 2008 PREMIOS ESCENARIOS DE SEVILLA 2009 A breathtaking beauty! Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé

2 Synopsis A man and woman are immerged in the spiral of passing time. The beginning is also the end of a cycle. Caught in their action, their desires will be intercepted by Chronos who intercedes on their behalf. They go through symbolic situations that reflect the influence of time on their lives, from their mythical origin in conception to contemporary stress. Time, conceived as food, is beyond theme. A gigantic metronome forces them to turn, to undress and to realise that as they go forward they are gaining and loosing time. In the world s perspective, time has run out; but for them, the repetition has just begun. Chronos, the watchful God, endlessly awaits them. Indoor show Length: 65 minutes National premiere: La Bienal de Flamenco, Teatro Central, Seville, Spain. October 2008 International premiere: Flamenco Festival, Tanzhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2009 Awards: Innovation AWARD La Bienal de Flamenco, Sevilla 2008 Most innovative show AWARD Feria internacional de Aragón 2008 Credits: Original idea and Dramatic Art: Marco Vargas, Chloé Brûlé Choreography: Marco Vargas, Chloé Brûlé, Juan Carlos Lérida Mise-en-scene: Antonio Campos Dancing: Marco Vargas, Chloé Brûlé Singing: Juan José Amador Piano: Diego Amador Music: Diego Amador, Raúl Cantizano Lighting design: Antonio Alonso Costumes: José Tarriño, Cari Rial Machinery: Antonio Godoy Photography: Luís Castilla Production: Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé Asia & Oceania distribution: LaClá, Representation & Management Dance AWARD Premios Escenarios de Sevilla 2009 Set design: El Equipo

The Company Marco and Chloé direct their company together since 2005.

3 The Company Marco and Chloé direct their company together since Their union finds its substance in the identical approach they find in their understanding of flamenco as an art of dancing in itself. Together they have been able to create and develop a language of their own that unites tradition and modernity. They have been part of the most important national programs as Bienal de Flamenco, Festival Jerez, Mercat de les Flors, Festival of Classical Theater of Merida, and have performed their creations on remarkable places such us Tanzhaus nrw & International Tanzmesse nrw (Düsseldorf), Théâtre Forum Meyrin (Genève), Les Plateaux, La Briqueterie (Vitry-sur-Seine), Le Quartz- Scène nationale (Brest) and Théâtre du Rond- Point ( Paris), among others. Marco Vargas and Chloé Brûlé earned a Giraldillo prize for Innovation at the 15th Flamenco Bienale of Seville for Ti-ME-TABLE, or the unavoidable time, which was also distinguished at the 2009 Stage Awards with the Dance Award. They also won awards for Best Dramaturgy and Best Sound Space at the Teatro del Sur Festival in Palma del Río for Cuando uno quiere y el otro no and the Audience Prize for Most Innovative Show on Tour at the 20th Aragon International Dance and Theatre Fair for TI-ME-TA-BLE. They won the prize for Best Choreography at the 2012 Stage Awards for Por casualidad, while Me va gustando won prizes for Best Dance Performance at the 2015 Stage Awards and Best Choreography at the 3rd Andalusian Theatre Awards. Their last work, Libertino, received six nominations for the Max Performing Arts Awards and has won the prize for Best Dance Performance at the 2016 Lorca Awards.

The Company They seem able to renew the dialogue between contemporary dance and flamenco and the relationship between both arts and the street, two of the pillars of their aforementioned language

4 The Company They seem able to renew the dialogue between contemporary dance and flamenco and the relationship between both arts and the street, two of the pillars of their aforementioned language along with the search for beautiful and impressive imagery, energy and passion and the creation of symbolic dramas around the fundamental themes of human existence, focuses never abandoned which have ensured that their work is undeniably consistent. The duo is complicit and complementary; their choreographies accordingly recall human relationships and the ability to mutually understand and comprehend. Dialogue may indeed be the key word characterising this company, which successfully combines cante and baile (flamenco singing and dancing) with contemporary dance, folk costumes and new technology, sonorous electronic landscapes with flamenco attitude and the masculine with the feminine. Truth and spectacle; feeling and presence of mind. Gonzalo Andino, La teatral magazine

5 Biographies Chloé Brûlé (Montreal, 1978) After having obtained a classical degree at the Canadian Grand Ballet school, Chloè travels through Spain in order to get closer to flamenco art. She completes her training with masters like Manolo Marín, Andrés Marín, Javier Latorre (Rinconete and Cortadillo), Angeles Gabaldón (Inmigración), Israel Galván (Torero alucinógeno) and Fernando Lima. In 2013 she opened the space ESTUDIO 35 in Seville, a place of creation and education for dance and flamenco artists. Besides her creative work, Chloé also teaches and has given courses in Spain, Canada, Scotland, Italy, Greece and Germany, among others, and also collaborates with other projects and artists such as Niño de Elche, Juan Carlos Lérida, Asha Thomas o Las Migas. Juan José Amador (Seville 1960) Juan José Amador s carreer was premature. Coming from a great flamenca tradition, the Amador family, Juan José starts singing very early in the tablaos (Los gallos, El Arenal). With his voice, he acompanies many dancers like Mario Maya, Farruco, Matilde Corral, Cristina Hoyos, Manuela Carrasco or Israel Galván (El Final de este estado de cosas, Redux). He has also recorded several albums: Dame veneno, with Raimundo Amador and Paco Cepero; Suite Sevilla with Rafael Riqueni; Rock gitano the musicians from his older brother s band, Pata Negra. Recently he has participated in the recording of the DVD, La noche flamenca, with the bailaora Pastora Galván. Marco Vargas (Seville, 1973) He was born in Seville within the world of flamenco. He starts dancing very young in a tablao called El Patio Sevillano but then stops in order to join the legendary dancer Mario Maya s Company. He follows his vocational path in the Compañía Andaluza de danza and then follows on with the Salvador Tavora company. He tours internationally for different companies and combines his performances and productions with courses where he shares his knowledge at various festivals and dance programs as the flamenco Festival of Mont de Marsan, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf and various dance centers in Japan, Germany, Spain and France, among others.

6 Collaborations Marco and Chloé are always open to new horizons. In their ongoing search for innovation their career includes time spent as a resident performing company in France (Le 104 in Paris and the Centre Nacional de Danse de La Rochelle). They have twice co-produced with Dusseldorf s Tanzhaus and have collaborated in works such as Alejandría, la mirada oblicua by 8co80 Producciones and La solitude dans un champ de coton by L Échapée Lyrique, based on a text by Bernard Marie Koltés. On an individual basis they have worked with Diego Amador, Israel Galván, Juan Carlos Lérida, Olga Pericet, Alba Carmona (Las Migas), Asha Thomas, Belén Maya and Niño de Elche, among others. They have also taken part in film projects such as Flamenco, by Carlos Saura; the documentary Otras Flamencas by Bianca dos Santos and Tatiana Guedes; the television programme Ils Danset of Radio Canada; and the dance-video Aurresku Gitano by Josetxo Goia-Aribe.

Shows The first creation by Vargas & Chloé was the outdoor show Las 24 (2005), soon followed by Cuando uno quiere y el otro no (2006), distinguished with the award for Best Dramaturgy and Best Sound

7 Shows The first creation by Vargas & Chloé was the outdoor show Las 24 (2005), soon followed by Cuando uno quiere y el otro no (2006), distinguished with the award for Best Dramaturgy and Best Sound Space at the Teatro del Sur Festival in Palma del Río (Andalusia) and the Innovation award at the Aragon International Theatre and Dance Fair. TI-ME-TA-BLE or the unavoidable time (2008) was later presented at the Seville Flamenco Bienal where it was awarded the Giraldillo Prize for Innovation. Hacia dónde? was presented as a show for peculiar and outdoor spaces at the Cádiz Dance Festival. Marco and Chloé opened a new show at Seville s Teatro Central in 2011, Tripolar, with the exceptional participation of the singer Juan José Amador. This was followed by Private Collection, a repertoire which revisits the Vargas-Brulé company s most emblematic works, brought to the public in March 2012 at Seville s La Imperdible Theatre and in September 2012 at the Flamenco Bienal, earning praise from critics. In November 2012 they presented a new outdoor show, Por casualidad, during Seville Dance Month, and won the prize for Best Choreography at the Seville Stage Awards. In 2014 they created Me va gustando a show for peculiar spaces which earned awards for Best Dance Performance at the 2015 Seville Stage Awards and Best Choreography at 3rd Andalusian Theatre Awards. In October 2015 they presented their latest creation, Libertino, at the Iberian-American Theatre Festival in Cádiz, earning six nominations for the Max Performing Arts Awards; it was recently awarded the prize for Best Dance Performance at the 2016 Lorca Awards.

Some events and festivals where they have performed Abroad Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London, UK Red ecuatoriana de teatro, ECUADOR Festival de solos y duetos.

8 Some events and festivals where they have performed Abroad Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London, UK Red ecuatoriana de teatro, ECUADOR Festival de solos y duetos. Caracas, VENEZUELA Festival d Aubagne, FRANCE Festival Arte Flamenco. Mont de Marsan, FRANCE Tanzhaus nrw & Tanzmesse nrw. Dusseldorf, GERMANY World Dance Festival. Gotenburg, SWEDEN Movement in exil festival, Stokholm, SWEDEN Institut Cervantes, Marrakech. Tanger, MOROCCO Festival de Toulon. Toulon, FRANCE Instituto Cervantes. Milan, ITALY Theatre du Rond-Point. Paris, FRANCE Theatre Comedia. Aubagne (Marseille), FRANCE Festival On Marche. Marrakech, MOROCCO Festival DansEncore. Trois Rivieres, CANADA Theatre Forum Meyrin. Geneva, SWITZERLAND Le Quartz. Scene nationale de Brest, FRANCE Tanzfestival Tempel. Karlsruhe, GERMANY Theater Sommer. Idar Oberstein, GERMANY Les Plateaux, La Briquetiere, Val de Marne, FRANCE CDBM. Le Perreux-sur-Marne, FRANCE Festival Danse en Ville. Eupen, BELGIUM Festival Cadences. dárcachon, FRANCE SIDance Festival & PAMS (Performing Art Market of Seoul). Seoul, KOREA BIDAM (Busan International Dance Market), Busan, KOREA Festival Miradas. Sao Paulo, BRASIL Musique et Danse en Loire Atlantique. Nantes, FRANCE Spain Festival Dies de Danza, BARCELONA XV Flamenco Bienale of Seville, SEVILLE Festival MuDanzas, CARTAGENA Festival Trayectos, ZARAGOZA Festival International de Artes de la calle, VALLADOLID Fira de Tarrega, TARREGA Festival Flamenco Empiric. Mercat de les Flors, BARCELONA Festival Flamenco de Jerez, JEREZ Festival de Teatro en el Sur, PALMA DEL RIO Paraninfo de la Universidad Menendez Pelayo, SANTANDER Danza de Gijon. Teatro La Laboral Centro de Arte, GIJON FAM 11 (Festival International de las Artes del Movimiento) Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín, ISLAS CANARIAS XVII Flamenco Bienale of Seville, SEVILLE Auditorio Municipal de Colmenar Viejo, MADRID Teatro La Imperdible, SEVILLA XVI Feria de Artes Escénicas de Castilla La Mancha, ALBACETE Centro Cultural de la Villa, San José de la Rinconada, SEVILLA Feria de Teatro, PALMA DEL RIO Mes de danza Festival, SEVILLE Festival Dies de Danza, BARCELONA

9 TI-ME-TA-BLE, a breathtaking beauty! Clock, show no shadow! In the initial shadow (...) How to resist this mind-blowing show? It from which a misty universo rises up, we can is a premiere in France and it takes place in only feel that we are witnessing an Brest at the Quartz, offered by artists who extraordinary event of Andalusia dancing ( ) possess an overflowing creativity as well as a metronomic sens of rigour. On stage, as soon A. Molinari, Ideal Cultura, February as the lights turn on, one is striken by the greatness of the images that string together Time is gold. Vargas and Brûlé are assigned to in an unavoidable tiempo. (...) A man, a revolutionize the panorama of contemporary, woman. A singer, a pianist. Exceptional Diego classical and flamenco dancing (...) The Amador! All of them have their role to play in flamenco genre has been renewed by this the evolution of a dramaturgy dedicated to couple s creativity (...) Chronos. At the back of the stage, dawns and dusks suceed each other, with a rivalry of Amalia Buines, El Correo de Andalucía. shimmering colours sculpting Marco Vargas et 14th September 2008 Chloé Brûlé s silhouettes, perfect dancers.the lights play with light-hearted cleverness. It is no accident that Timetable is one of the Symbolic paintings, unclutted, seem to past few years most important shows in the represent a sacred ritual, both ancestral and flamenco world... this couple has freshened up turned towards the future. (...) All Flamenco s this creative genre (...) codes are present, carved in the postures, in the feet and hands, in Juan José Amador s Alberto García Reyes, ABC. singing. But everything is revisited in depth. September Things are there because of the meaning they carry rather tan out of prettiness. That is how Somewhere, someday, someone may stop and true beauty is born! write down the small details that make flamenco remain touching in its language ideas Dominique Cresson, Ouest France, and emotions (...) February Juan Diego Martin Cabeza, Deflamenco.com, September Improvisation does not exist. Everything is governed by memorisation and detail of a choreography that possesses a dimension reaching far beyond the simple word flamenca. They adopt the universal language of dancing through which they track down flamenco dancing. Lourdes Gálvez del Postigo. Malaga hoy. March I have always declared that the best contemporary dancing is created in Andalusia by artists like Vargas and Brûlé or Israel Galván. As a result, this new flamenco is programmed in Europe in contemporary dance sessions... Manuel Llanes, artistic director of Teatro Central, Seville, ABC. February Reviews Vanguard pioneers. Six years ago they caused wonder with Las 24, a show made for peculiar spaces that was presented in many types of festivals. (...) The astonishing irruption of a different flamenco, narrative and contemporary, with a sober and passionate aesthetic quality. (...) from then onwards this company has kept growing artistically. Gonzalo Andino, Lateatral. October-December Israel Galván, Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé or Chinabaus, amongst the candidates for the II Danse Award organised by La Asociación Andaluza de Profesionales de la Danza (PAD). Europapress.es. Seville. 9th October The coordination between the two dancers is impressive and this is one of the objectives of this choreography during which, after trying to find contact, rejection and combination, we gradually see the bodies merging (...) The public is seduced and feels the complicity between the two dancers, a complicity that they have built through the shows that they have created together: Las 24, TI-ME-TA-BLE, Hacia dónde? Their presence on stage enables them to invite the public to participate in their thought process. Philippe Dedryver, Flamenco Culture, Le Portail du Flamenco. 23th May 2011.

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