THE SIDEWALK BALLET​

 

In itself, an urban pavement is nothing. It is an abstraction. It only has meaning in relation to the buildings and other services attached to it or attached to other nearby pavements. The same could be said of streets, in the sense that they serve more than just to support road traffic. Streets and their pavements are the main public places of a city, its most vital organs. What is the first thing that comes to mind when we think of a city? Its streets. When a city's streets offer interest, the whole city offers interest; when they look sad, the whole city looks sad.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

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Let's take a walk through the city we live in, the daily flow is surprised by unforeseen encounters, they seem disorderly but, if we observe carefully we can read a choreography orchestrated by the hands of improvisation where each dancer is aware of the space they live in.  This is a journey through projections that compose different spaces, which change and adapt according to the movement of the shadows that inhabit them. 
It explores how architecture delimits spaces. How these limits blur according to the incidence of light.  The light that makes the space vibrate and with it the sensations that it sparks in us, sometimes positive and sometimes negative. This dance talks about how the spaces we inhabit affect our lives.

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Idea original: Esther Rodríguez-Barbero Granado

MUsic: Different Trains – Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet. Alfama – Madredeus

Vídeo-Proyection: Esther Rodríguez-Barbero Granado, Óscar Muñoz Requena

Texto: Extracto del libro “Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades” Jane Jacobs

Foto JOse Luis Sagredo

Atubarukeke Expresión Corporal y Danza

 

X Escuela de Verano de Expresión Corporal y Danza, Zamora

Sala Ambigú, Valladolid. IV Encuentro de Expresión Corporal y Danza

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