‘Norma’: The good, the ugly, the unhealthy. DANCE AGAINST THE NORMATIVE | Culture | EUROtoday
In the primary minutes of Normathe brand new work of the choreographer Antonio Ruz (Córdoba, 49 years previous), offered this Friday on the Madrid competition in dance after passing by Córdoba, there are additionally the primary keys to the matrix and axis of this piece, in a refined method, nearly like a muscular caress. Still darkish, sounds Diva Castathe Aria de Bellini. And that auditory gesture throws two essential references. On the one hand, the phrase norm, which is the title of the opera to which the musical fragment that’s taking part in and that of this present belongs; On the opposite hand, the picture of all these fabulous fashions of excellent our bodies that come to thoughts when it sounds Diva Casta, Soundtrack of the well-known commercial of a famend fragrance. Manuel Martín, one of many dancers, who may have left that announcement nicely, is already on stage wearing a inflexible corset and pants, wanting on the public. It is then after we start to inform us, nearly with out realizing it, the fight of how normative it’s Norma. The symbology is served.
The 5 dancers who maintain the present seem and with them the idea of physique variety. A difficult thought inside and out of doors the scene, however particularly in dance, which holds the speech. They stroll nearly introducing themselves and take a look at us as warning: “This also goes with you.” Highlighting the identification of every of them, as people and collective, is quickly launched as a objective. How to attend a gallery of potentialities in a wall of any social community. It highlights, on this sense, the interpretive talents of every of them to maintain their function with a dance that though it needs to flee the normative, it’s nonetheless demanding and clear in what’s pursued. Of all of them, three are standard collaborators of Ruz. Alicia Narejos, Begoña Quiñones and Manuel Martín. The dancer Carlos Carvento and actor Chelís Quinzá, who dances right here like everybody else, are the brand new signings for Norma.
Carvento, a 30 -year -old younger Cordoba, shines easy queer and indomitable declare, which started to develop just a few years in the past. Classical and modern dance dancer, can also be Drag and performerand all this provides you a major profile that dazzles by its amplitude of interpretive, impeccable data, across the physique.
While it’s true that the work of Antonio Ruz, National Dance Award in 2018, is offered eclectic, various, and passes by very totally different data, there may be some signal that confers its inventive identification since in 2009 he based his personal firm. For instance, the care you profess when conceiving a choreography as a present. That is, the significance of surroundings, music and lighting, together with the motion, till they kind just one factor. In Norma, All this meeting acquires new and highly effective meanings. The lights of the famend Olga García, with whom Ruz has been working for many years, provides once more to the purpose of making genuine narrative worlds of an awesome logic. And the surroundings, this time additionally the choreographer, dancer and visible artist Roberto Martínez, grants to Norma a completely important weight. Even extra so when it’s only a few parts (curtain and carpet) that not solely present the scene an awesome visible power, however they function a dramaturgy, additionally delimiting the narrative. As if these curtains mark the scenic and on the identical time, the place of exhibition from which we present ourselves to the world by social networks. They and us.

The music of the Air DJ and the (transient) textual content of the author Gregorio Apesteguía, extracted from his books Of the subject-world interplay y Manual for residing beings, declared Without imposture (Although it’s also true that he loses a few of his power, which is loads, test it on his platform Analysis warehouse and his committee for the nameless philosophical rebellion), full this difficult work that displays on the rules of the our bodies, the exhibition of what pretend and the normality of the various, from the scenic and the symbolic amplitude.
‘Norma’
Address and choreography: Antonio Ruz.
Dramaturgy: Rosabel Huguet. Design and realization of costumes and scenic house: Roberto Martínez. Lighting design: Olga García – AAI. Music: air. Texts: Book extracts Of the subject-world interplay y Manual for residing beingsby Gregorio Apesteguía
Interpreters: Begoña Quiñones, Chelís Quinzá, Carlos Carvento, Alicia Narejos and Manuel Martín.
Theaters of the Madrid Canal. Madrid competition in dance. Until May 11.
Upcoming dates. November 8, Marbella. November 22, A Coruña. From February 12 to 14, 2026, Barcelona.
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