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Dykes to the sea

In a borderland like a port, a platform or a windowsill, two women are waiting. We do not know what exactly they are waiting for, perhaps forgetfulness, a memory, a signal, or a prodigy. For them, waiting is also a canon and an active task in many ways precise. Is the nourishment of an essential melancholy for something or someone about to come. We are at the sea and at a waiting room simultaneously, they may look opposites, but for these woman they’re not. The mist of the past and the forthcoming enigma are just two corners of the same nostalgia and they are two ages evoking visions and outdoor witchcrafts of their own narration. The subtle waiting gets into movement and words, while in a port or a window, letters fall and ships anchor.

Directors: Gabriela Pérez Negrete and Damián Cordero
Actresses/dancers: Adriana Ríos and Gabriela Pérez Negrete

1924 Revolution

Experimental physical theatre creation inspired by the Jacques Copeau revolutionary initiatives that would define new directions for modern theatre: the theatre and the School of Vieux Colombier. Performance Text shown at a classroom of the National School of Dramatic Art of Mexico as homage to the historical end-term performance
of the Vieux Colombier in which actors took to the limit their sensibility and technical skills without using words, make up, costume, lights, or scenography.

Actors/dancers:
Alicia Lara
Flor Sandoval
Rolando Martìnez
Guillermo Villegas
Guillermo Islas
Raúl Sativa
Tania Hernández Martìnez
Carolina Garibay
Karla Miranda

The Insurmountable Fear

Contemporary aesthetic performance based on a no-distinction concept of actor/dancer/musician that explores ideas, questions and situations that one may consider secret and unique, but when shared, revealed as universal experiences reminding us the unfathomable mysteries of human condition and the secret coincidence of our past.

Collective creation by Harif Ovalle and Juan Pablo Villa
Original music by Juan Pablo Villa
General direction by Harif Ovalle
Performers: Harif Ovalle and Juan Pablo Villa

Interval (or one bread, two chesses and a large sausage)

Solo piece which technical principle is the work on mask and the expressive value of the actor’s body as a poetic continent for the scenic creation in an empty space. This kind of textuality requires a strong commitment from the actor/dancer to release all his creative forces so as to situate him as a participatory artist co-responsible of the theatrical process, and not just as a “translator” of the ideas and language of the director. It is not about to deny the presence of the director/choreographer but to expand the creative horizon of an actor/dancer. The performance renders homage to life and its paths full of uncertainty, wonder, and rejoicing. Life appears as a possibility of possibilities out of the reach of man. There are no traces, no paths and fragility of existence is the wonderful condition for the ages of man.

Performance text by Harif Ovalle
Actor/dancer: Harif Ovalle

Team

Harif Ovalle

Founder and co-director of Theatre that Dances

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Interdisciplinary performer and director graduated from the National School of Dramatic Art of Mexico, from the School of Physical Theatre of London and with musical studies at DIM School of Music. His sensibility and skilful command of movement, acting and music has led him to tour, lead workshops, and create artistic/cultural exchanges to countries such as Korea, Romania, Italy, Colombia, Egypt, Canada and London. He is one of the most respected young artists of the country, considered “one of the most interesting elements of new generation of performers” by Mexican press, and “Potential performer” by Cirque du Soleil casting department among other press comments. He has received two grants from National Fund for Arts and Culture of Mexico and has been awarded twice by Mexican institutes. In addition, he teaches Dramaturgy of actor/dancer at the National School of Dramatic Art of Mexico, and gives physical theatre workshops within the country and abroad.

Gabriela Pérez Negrete

Founder and co-director of Theatre that Dances

She is an actress/dancer and director with an acting degree from the National School of Dramatic Art of Mexico and studies at the Russian School of Acting, she upgraded her training through several workshops in the fields of movement and acting in Mexico and abroad. She has worked with some of the most important theatre directors of Mexico and has toured to countries such as Denmark (Odin Teatret), Colombia (La Mascara Group), Venezuela, and United States. In the teaching area she has lead several workshops at the most respected institutes, theatre schools and universities of Mexico teaching movement, choreography and dramaturgy of the actor/dancer. Last year she received a grant for artistic development by the National Fund for Arts and Culture. At present she co-directs Theatre that Dances Studio and prepares its last production called “Tell it you again” under her own direction.

Cesar Gómez

Marketing manager and actor

Graduated from the Higher School of Commerce and Administration from Instituto Politécnico Nacional of Mexico where he received a degree in commercial relations specialized in marketing on services. He studied theatre at the Space for Scenic Studies from New Dramaturgy Forum in Mexico City and was awarded “Best Actor” at the Interpolitécnico Theatre Encounter editions XIII and XIV. He is the Theatre that Dances Studio marketing manager and runs his own project of consulting and scenic production called Cesargomez-it! working for theatre companies such as Teatro Sin Paredes, Productora Innombrable, Teatro del Aire among others. At present he prepares the solo piece “A bathtub to take a bath”.

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