A collaboration composed of 4 audiovisual pieces that are articulated as postcards or impressions of the confinement.
Four glances from four different choreographers who, separated by time and geographical borders, direct the movements of a single performer. The dancer, from the intimacy of his confinement, makes a time-space tour of his apartment, reinterpreting places and objects to transform them into the forced scene of this pandemic. The bed, the windows, the instruments are thus taking on another meaning, transforming the imposed routine of confinement into a kind of vehicle or door to more intimate and at the same time phantasmagorical places, spaces where the deepest aspirations of being can be appreciated. like freedom and communication, as well as all the psychological tensions typical of an imprisoned being. A challenge for the interpreter, a Chilean dancer living in Tribeca New York, the center of the pandemic and the antiracial outbreak, who alone had to juggle the technical and logistical tasks to record and rehearse the various choreographies that make up these works, sometimes all in a same day, turning his department into a creative experimentation laboratory where the body and its different dimensions take on an unusual thickness. With the Symphony No.9 in D Minor, Op. 125, by Ludwig Van Beethoven as a tribute to the 250th anniversary of the German composer’s birth.
1/4 RESTLESS
Choreographer, audiovisual and musical edition.
Eduardo Zúñiga – Chilean in Alicante Spain.
Music L.V. Beethoven
The first of the 4 pieces that make up the work, is inspired by the night experience of the interpreter, of insomnia as a psychological and creative experience throughout the creation and editing process of this work. Collecting the corporal and mental consequences of the confinement. Restless, the homonym of the complete work, takes us on a journey through hidden places that awakens us more desire to scream, hug, run and watch, come out of the confinement egg. It is a journey into the interior of this being that we are all and that we are one at a time.
“The main inspiration comes from what it means to live in confinement, what we have to live in our homes with our time. Time in the sense of what the use of it means and how it varies depending on what we do. It feels faster or slower. ”
Eduardo Zúñiga – May 2020
2/4 ORILLA
Direction and Choreography
Edgar Zendejas – Mexican in Montreal Canada.
Edition
Eduardo Zuniga
Music L.V. Beethoven & Sebastián Arias.
Musical Edition Esdras Hernández and Eduardo Zúñiga.
The inner world shines with its most unexpected voices before a feeling of loneliness. It deepens us to a direct connection between body and soul and makes us explode without any meaning, just for the fact of being and facing our own presence.
“This is the first time that there is a global unification of the artistic endeavor, it is a new challenge that is nurturing us so that we can find our new path.”
Edgar Zendejas – June 2020
3/4 OCASO
Esdras Hernández – Spanish in Santiago de Chile.
Choreography, musical composition (based on the “Symphony No. 9 in G minor, Op 125” and the “Piano Sonata No. 14”, by Ludwig Van Beethoven) and audiovisual editing.
When night falls almost everyone sleeps, but for some it is when they really wake up, the silence after sunset acts as a catalyst to listen to what you really have to say to yourself, the shame disappears, the masks are not necessary and that’s it. It only remains to surrender.
“The invitation was textual, for us to continue creating in quarantine. It is not easy to have a trial ten thousand kilometers away, but also with this current paradigm one is discovering new answers to new questions that perhaps if it were not for the pandemic, one would not question “.
Esdras Hernández – July 2020
4/4 MAURICIO
Direction & Choreography
Sebastián Arias – Uruguayan in Montevideo Uruguay.
Musical composition (based on the “Symphony No. 9 in G minor, Op 125” and the “Piano Sonata No. 14”, by Ludwig Van Beethoven) and audiovisual edition by Esdras Hernández
Interpreter and camera: Mauricio Vera / Window Ballerina: Julia Bengtsson.
In this time where the majority have suffered confinement, we find ourselves alone or saturated with company, suffering from loneliness and various mood. Mauricio films himself showing his intimacy to somehow be closer, with this saturated rhythm he dreams of reopening and dancing to the applause that every day, at 7 pm, New York City offers to the health workers. In that dream is the stage.
Sebastias Arias –August 2020
History of a Work:
They are months of confinement, in a moment of anxiety, fear and uncertainty that I decided to write to choreographers and filmmakers whom I admire and with whom I also have a special connection. Each one in different parts of the world, I came to them in my desperation to create and to be directed and to promote something that would give me the strength to continue with the confinement and my artistic needs.
I decided not to see any more news, I tried to protect myself in creation and movement, for the first time I got lost inside my department and then left it emotionally traveling with music and movement, trying to be the body of each of the creators-choreographers that scattered around the planet live the same circumstances.
Alicante (Spain), Montreal (Canada), Montevideo (Uruguay), City of (Mexico) and Santiago (Chile).
In April I thought that if it worked we could motivate more artists to do the same. I believe our generation is more friendly with technology and we must support ourselves in this learning, especially with our directors and creators who are generally older. I hope that this digital process can be a contribution to so many artist companies that are facing unfortunate economic bankruptcy today.
Mauricio Vera, producer, Interpreter And Camera.
Year of production 2021
Genres Musical, Experimental, Art – Culture
Countries CHILE, USA, MEXICO, SPAIN, URUGUAY
Languages No dialog
Duration 25 mn
Director(s) Eduardo ZÚÑIGA, Edgar ZENDEJAS, Sebastián ARIAS, Esdras HERNÁNDEZ
Writer(s) Eduardo ZÚÑIGA, Edgar ZENDEJAS, Sebastián ARIAS, Esdras HERNANDEZ
Cast Mauricio VERA, Julia BENGTSSON
Producer(s) Mauricio VERA (Danza Restless)
