2020 season programme
Concept by Jon López and Martxel Rodriguez (Led Silhouette)
Premiered on September 23, 2021, in Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Almada
RGB is the acronym for an additive color system formed by red, blue and green, which is used in reference to monitors and television. This piece seeks to be a kaleidoscopic artistic experience that uses the senses, geometry, movement and plasticity, with great emphasis on the use of light. It will be an immersive walk where, using elements such as fog, light or reflective metals, body and mind are placed in a continuous loop, changing the understanding and perception of what happens on stage. RGB proposes to engage the audience in a way that deeply condenses the experience into a colorful and hypnotic journey. The viewer is invited to be part of this landscape to be seen, to think and consolidate. The work investigates and shares an odyssey of art, in which bodies come together to create a trinity of vigor, futurism and embrace.
"... light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is referred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of colour [...] Colour itself is a degree of darkness." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Concept: Jon López and Martxel Rodriguez (Led Silhouette)
Choreography: Jon López and Martxel Rodriguez in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Beatriz Rousseau, Bruno Duarte, Luís Malaquias, Mariana Romão, Miguel Pinheiro, Raquel Tavares and Vítor Afonso
Music: Ibai Gogortza
Light Design: Andoni Mendizabal
Text and dramaturgical advice: Gaizka Sarasola
Scenography and Costumes: Led Silhouette
Rehearsal Director: Maria João Lopes
Acknowledgments: Marina Fullana, Laura Lliteras and Katalin Arana
Martxel Rodríguez (Lesaka, 1990), began his professional career as a dancer at the Dantzaz company in 2013, working with choreographers such as Itzik Galili or Jone San Martin, after training in different dance schools in the Basque Country and graduating in Physics. In 2014 he traveled to Holstebro (Denmark) to work at the Black Box Dance Company and at the same time attended the Gaga Winter Course in Tel Aviv. In 2015 he returned to the Basque Country to be part of a project called "Oskara", a collaboration between Kukai Dantza and Marcos Morau/La Veronal. He was nominated for best male interpreter at the MAX 2017 awards for this work. In the Festival DNA 2018, he was part of GALA by Jérôme Bel. In 2019 he was nominated as best dancer for the "Premis de les Arts Esceniques" of the Valencian Community for "Canvas of Bodies" by Taiat Dansa. That same year he obtained the Master in Cultural Management from the Open University of Catalonia. With Jon López he founded and directed Led Silhouette, premiering the first piece in 2016, "Moira", at Festival 10 Sentidos, in Valencia. Since then, they have presented their own productions such as "Creepy Crawly" and "Errata Natural" in spaces such as Cuarta Pared and Centro Cultural y de Arte Tabacalera, in Madrid, and Center del Carmen Museum, in Valencia. Their work has been presented at international festivals such as Quinzena de Dança de Almada, in Portugal, or the Festival Internazional Nuova Danza, in Italy.
Jon López (Madrid, 1993), began his professional career at the Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, after graduating from the Royal Professional Conservatory of Mariemma in Madrid. Since 2015 he has been part of the Catalan company La Veronal, directed by Marcos Morau. Participating in different productions as a dancer and assistant choreographer, highlighting "Voronia" and "Pasionaria", he works with in international tours in theaters such as Sadler's Wells in London, the National Theater of Chaillot in Paris, Grand Theatre de la Ville in Luxembourg, Schaubühne in Berlin or in Spain at Teatros del Canal, Mercat de les Flors or the Teatre Lliure. He has also participated in different projects of Taiat Dansa, Cia Vero Cendoya and Kukai Dantza. Together with Martxel Rodriguez he founded, performs and directs Led Silhouette.
The creation took place in an artistic residency of the choreographers in Almada, which was followed by premiere at the 29th Quinzena de Dança de Almada - International Dance Festival in partnership with Mostra Espanha 2021, with the support of the Embassy of Spain in Portugal and the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain.
Tour
Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras - Portugal, April 14, 2023
Cineteatro de Benavente, Benavente - Portugal, February 17, de 2023
55' | ages 6 and over
