Luz Arcas (Málaga, 42 years outdated) is a depositary of a dance that flees from formalisms. She prefers to speak about “dance,” as this newspaper declared just a few years in the past. And with the selection of that time period, it additionally opts for one thing main, wilder and extra spontaneous, which is situated instinctive and makes its language understand even earlier than passing by means of thought. In this sense, and in lots of others that undergo a selected viewpoint on the themes you select to talk from the physique, Arcas, National Dance Award within the creation modality in 2024, is an artist framed by a palpable authenticity.
The braveness and the indomiting of the bodily can be current in its final present, Rare earths, which had its absolute premiere yesterday within the inexperienced room of the theaters of the Canal, inside the Madrid International Festival in Danza. In that sense, the choreographer, additionally an interpreter of the work with 4 different dancers (La Merce, Danielle Mesquita, Javiera Paz and Raquel Sánchez) appears to have taken some extra steps within the dispossession of necessities round dance. The 5 are free and delivered in that ambiance of ceremony or ceremony, so normal in coffers. It reveals that they often work collectively below the corporate La Pcharmaco, there may be complicity and complete supply between them. But its presence, physique drive, isn’t at all times sufficient to assist the work, and is lacking in too many moments. A complicated gentle design, implausible, but in addition overwhelming, sweeps virtually the whole lot else that occurs within the scene.

You may virtually speak about Rare earth As a visual-escenic system, such is the presence and weight of the luminaire virguería signed by Jorge Colomer and marks completely the whole lot that occurs. Together with Victoria Aime’s scenic house design, the result’s overwhelming. The scene is situated in a form of futuristic landfill or apocalyptic mine. A subsoil by which 5 discarded our bodies of any normative website coexist, a spot the place the useless dance. The finish of one thing, little question. Luz Arcas locations him within the earth’s crust, in what’s below our ft. In that darkish previous on which the longer term is constructed. And 5 creatures seem, beings between life and loss of life, which for an hour relate collectively and individually, and work together with components similar to a rubber, a drum or the massive black plastic that covers the stage.
There are a few climax round dance, hugged by the singing of Perrate, current within the work and remarking the earthly, that are completely dazzling. And they coincide with the interpretation of all of the dancers in a main and complex dance on the similar time, which reminds us of the highly effective language of the proprietor Luz Arcas. It leaves us wanting extra, we miss later. And though the 5 dancers are convincing of their private interpretations, the dance is diluted too many instances from the gestural and transitions, some too lengthy.
Rare earth It is a demanding, darkish, fascinating work, however the bodily finally ends up being misplaced within the visible artifact, one thing that doesn’t often occur within the speech of this creator, the place the choreographic and its conception of the physique assist the whole lot.

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