país GRAVEDAD de Shantí Vera

país GRAVEDAD de Shantí Vera

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país GRAVEDAD By Shantí Vera país GRAVEDAD Premiered: 23rd of July of 2016 in Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Produced by: National Coordination of Dance from the National Institute of Fine Arts and Cuatro X Cuatro. Length of the show: 60 minutes. SYNOPSIS Cuatro X Cuatro emerged ten years ago from an artistic and affective place. Since the beginning we questioned our practice with what we observed inside and outside of our country and inside and outside of the stage. We are admirers of Tarkovsky, and after ten years we understand, with more urgency and vitality than ever, the necessity of art, choreography and contemporary scenic arts to broaden the field of possibility in a world where almost everything is written by the capitalism. país GRAVEDAD exposes urgencies of our context; welcomes the body, space and silence; awakening thresholds of perception and by creating community. Disposes the body and space in a multidirectional dialogue taking gravity as a starting point. Abstracts tensions from our context and exposes lines, vibrations, frequencies and energies. This choreographic piece is an organization of the sensible; is a stand before the capitalism; it s a urgency, it s a homage, is the abstraction of a million tears; lines that share, produce, separate, brings the world and us together. This piece looks for the capacity of altering coordinates in the shared world; thru actions from the body. This piece should have been produced by my sister Nadia, but Mexico didn t allow her; the violence and sometimiento that we drag since the beginning of this nation did not allow it; this piece should have been photographed by Ruben, Rubencito and Rubencillo but their bodies and his camera were destroyed. This piece is about the body as main subject in a country where they disappear bodies; talks about the urgency of welcoming the silence in a country with a lot of noise; speaks about the urgency of welcoming the affective space, the nothing, the empty space, the utility of the useless; stands up for the individual body and the community body, defends the body as and autonomous thinking entity, defends dance as right and left in a country and a world where there are no rights or left wing politics. This work is for my sister Nadia, for her thought, for her voice, for her imagination and for her body. It is also for all those who dare to imagine other possibilities in a country, in a continent and in a world like the one we live in. Shantí Vera/ Cuatro X Cuatro

CREDITS: Concept, choreography and direction: Shantí Vera* Assistant director: Stéphanie Janaina* Original music and sound design: Manuel Estrella Light design: Jésica Elizondo Costumes and art design: Arturo Lugo**/ Amplio Espectro Performers: Manuel Estrella, Sendic Vázquez**, Victor Villasana, Arturo Lugo, Melva Olivas**, Nadia Lartigue, Melissa Herrada*** and Shantí Vera. Video: Fernando Frías and Paulina Cervantes/ Maremoto Producciones Photography: Rodrigo Valero-Puertas Executive producer: Stéphanie Janaina*/ Cuatro X Cuatro Produced by: National Coordination of Dance, National Institute of Fine Arts and Cuatro X Cuatro. www.cuatroxcuatro.org http://shantivera.blogspot.mx *Young Creators FONCA 2016 ** Scenic Creators Category A FONCA 2016. ***Scenic Creators Category Youth in Scenic Training FONCA 2016

PRESS "... In país GRAVEDAD (2016), choreography of Shantí Vera premiered at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in July 23rd, explores, through a formal and geometric game, the physical bond that the body establishes with the force of attraction towards the Earth, but also reflects on a serious condition, the symbolic weight that corporality claim against the urgency to appear and position themselves politically in space. The choreographer preferred to bet on the meanings, sometimes more vast, which suggests the genuine action of moving or remaining motionless in a specific place. país GRAVEDAD, where the physicality of dance takes strength, fluid sequences arise and allow us to observe the great interpretive capacity and the body self-knowledge of the performers to create space by spreading and radiating their own energy. Silence and immobility are the two most powerful aspects of Shantí Vera's choreography. Along with the development of a structure of movement, país GRAVEDAD opens the choreo-political possibility of stopping... the work of Shantí Vera installs a strong affective bond with the spectator, who, by participating in the perception of the body, stimulates at the same time the criticism against the unstoppable state violence. " The weight of bodies by Silverio Orduña Published in the Journal of Images of the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM http://www.revistaimagenes.esteticas.unam.mx/node/99

CV/ Cuatro X Cuatro Cuatro X Cuatro Cuatro X Cuatro is a laboratory for artists and creative people who merged in 2007 in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. The group develops processes of creation and experimentation from the construction and deconstruction of personal concepts and tools that come from multiple spaces, disciplines and contexts. Cuatro X Cuatro has committed, since its beginnings, to the process of research, experimentation and integration in the performing arts, in addition to the management process for new spaces for contemporary dance in Mexico. Since its inception, Cuatro X Cuatro has integrated dramaturgy, choreography, physicality, speech, philosophy, experimentation, architecture, color, sound, pleasure, photography and intervention in every creative process. They form one dynamic unit where the body and the action are the center of creation in the laboratory of thought into action. EL CUERPO VACÍO, directed by Shantí Vera, detonated the creation of different works, events, installations and performing collaborations with other projects, groups and companies, and developed a comprehensive dialogue between contemporary dance and other disciplines. Cuatro X Cuatro has premiered and presented its works in multiple spaces and festivals in Mexico, such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the V Meeting of Performing Arts FONCA within the 39th International Festival Cervantino, the FMX 25 Festival of Mexico City in the Historic Center, the XX International Festival Oc-Ohtic and the 2011 INBA-UAM Award in addition to prestigious national and international cultural venues, festivals and meetings in Mexico, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Panama, Colombia, Lithuania, Northern Ireland, Belarus and Costa Rica. Cuatro X Cuatro and its members have received numerous awards, incentives, scholarships and institutional and organizational support such as FONCA, IVEC, CENART; IBE- RESCENA; INBA-UAM; CEPRODAC, CND-INBA, NO BALLET-DE; RED CQD-UE; Festival Yucatán Escénica and International Festival Oc-Ohtic. Since 2009 they have organized Festival 4x4, a space for reflection, research, promotion, education and exhibition of contemporary performing arts through working with multiple organizations in Mexico and abroad. Nadia Vera produced the Festival 4x4 from 2009-2015. Currently, Cuatro X Cuatro collaborates with different Mexican performing arts organizations, such as Crónico, Amplio Espectro, Maremoto Producciones, La Santa Culpa, Arte Nómada, Moving Borders, Colectivo AM, Stéphanie Janaina, Proyecto al Margen, Técnicas de Movimiento, SóloDos (España) and Tres Hermanos (Costa Rica). www.cuatroxcuatro.org Cuatro X Cuatro/ Performing Art https://vimeo.com/user15875708

Shantí Vera, Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico (1986). http://shantivera.blogspot.mx / www.cuatroxcuatro.org CV / Shantí Vera Director, choreographer and dancer Shantí is director of the company Cuatro X Cuatro and of the International Festival Cuatro X Cuatro, both of which focus on experimentation, research, promotion and exhibition of contemporary performing arts. Since 2009, he has developed Cuerpo Vacío (Empty body), a laboratory of putting thought into action, experiencing and playing from multiple areas of knowledge for the stage, and focusing on the body, the thought, the space and the stage. IT uses maps on the visible and the speakable; maps of the invisible and the unspeakable; thresholds of perception and sensibility; physicality, body playwriting, improvisation, rhizomatic thinking; aesthetics policies, the speech, the philosophy, the photography and the Mexican-Latin American context. During his career he has worked as a performer, director, choreographer and teacher, participating in national and international meetings, presentations, residencies, tours and festivals in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Ireland, Belarus, Lithuania and Spain. The Mexican press named Shantí Vera as one of the youngest emerging creators, choreographers and dancers most representative of Mexico in 2012 (Reforma newspaper) and in 2014 as one of the future creators of memorable works for the Mexican scene" (El Universal newspaper). He has collaborated with Mexican theatre magazine PASO DE GATO and the Mexican dance magazine FLUIR. Shanti Vera graduated with a degree in Contemporary Dance, including a special mention by the Facultad de Danza Contemporanea, from the Universidad Veracruzana (2008). His works include: HAIKU 8 descomposición en rojo (2010), INACABADO V4 (2011), IMPOSSI- BLE (2012), HABITANTE (2014), EL REPARTO DE LO SENSIBLE (2015), país GRAVEDAD (2016) y EL CUERPO VACÍO (2016). He has received several special mentions, awards and incentives from institutions and festivals such as FONCA, IVEC, IEJ-Chiapas, Universidad Veracruzana, Festival Yucatan Escenica, Red Ciudades que Danzan-UE, CEPRODAC, INBA, CENART and IBERESCENA. In July 2016 he successfully premiered the work país GRAVEDAD at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, which commemorated nine years of choreographic work of the company Cuatro X Cuatro. The National Coordination of Dance of National Institute of Fine Arts produced it. In September 2017 it was performed in the festival ZGZ Escena in Zaragoza, Spain. In March 2017 his piece HABITANTE was performed in the Festival Kontext Mexiko in Kampnagel Arts Center in Hamburg, Germany. The press said that Cuatro X Cuatro was the Highlight of the whole festival. In May 2017 he premieres the piece THE EMPTY BODY commemorating the 10th anniversary of choreographic investigation of the project Cuatro X Cuatro; the empty body is a philosophical work that acts and thinks from multiple bodies- multiple present and multiple absent- from all the bodies.

TECHNICAL NEEDS People traveling: 10 Sendic Vázquez/ Performer Victor Villasana/ Performer Melva Olivas/ Performer Nadia Lartigue/ Performer Arturo Lugo/ Performer Manuel Estrella/ Musician and Performer Melissa Herrada/ Performer Stéphanie Janaina/ Tour manager and Producer Jesica Elizondo/ Light Designer-Stage manager Shantí Vera/ Director, choreographer and performer Transportation 10 people Lodging 4 double room 2 single rooms TECNICAL SHEET Stage, house curtains and stage machinery Italian stage Minimum space dimensions: 12m-width x12m deep x 8m high Widest possible stage, without wings borders and tabs. White dance floor (No vinyl dance floor) * Stage design (15 gas tanks) *Automated (Motorized) fly system (required). Audio requirements 1 PA suitable for the venue 2 direct boxes 2 monitors for stage 2 monitors for hall 2 speakers for lobby and an audio console Lighting requirements -10 PC with tripods up stage -33 profile spot 15-30 (20 boom lights) (5 FOH N/C) (7 FOH L201) (1 Lx4) - 25 profile spot 25-50 (2 N/C Lx5) (5 Lx4) (5 Lx3) (5 Lx2) (7 Lx1 (5 L201) (2 N/C)) (2 Side FOH) - 10 Fresnel (2 Lx5) (2 Lx4) (2 Lx3) (2 Lx2) (2 Lx1) -24 Par ETC S4 WFL (12 backlight Lx5 (6 L201 & 6 N/C) (12 backlight Lx4 (6 L201 & 6 N/C) -5 Ciclo lights - 16 bar leds RGBW

Technical staff required 4 light technicians 4 audio technicians 6 machinery technicians (stage hands) / during the performance Time to set up Assembly: 12 hours. - Preferably one day before the presentation. Disassembly: 60 min. *If needed, we can send a technical sheet with the specific plans and assembly time. Dressing rooms and Catering 2 dressing rooms Purified water, coffee, tea, biscuits, fruit. Scenography - load specification. Load 1 bag containing 25 kg of wardrobe. The festival has to provide 15 white tanks of 30 kg. https://vimeo.com/185911840 Password: 4x4 LINKS

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