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WE CAN DANCE

AN ACT OF CELEBRATION

WE CAN DANCE

 

We Can Dance is an act of celebration; it’s an accompanied solo; or rather, an invitation to dance; or even, perhaps, also a disco. This piece moves between what’s possible and what’s forbidden by means of the laws that regulate or ban the act of dancing in different places, in order to question where personal and external limits lie.

It begins at that first step we take just before we start dancing. Once you start, it’s hard to stop, you start moving, get into that disco groove. At what point does movement become dance? What happens when it occurs in places where it’s forbidden?

A staged game constructed from the cogs represented by three bodies on stage: the dj body, the lighting body, and the dancing body.

Artistic & Technical data

Creation & Performance : Esther Rodriguez-Barbero

Collaboration:

DJ Laura Ramírez

Lighting: Víctor Colmenero Mir /Cristina Bolívar

Photo: Ángela Losa, J.C. Arévalo, Alessia Bombaci, Santi Periel

 

Supported by:

Antic Teatre

LEAL.LAV. Laboratorio de Artes en Vivo (Teatro Leal, La Laguna)

Centro de Danza Canal

La Caldera Barcelona 

L'estruch. Fábrica de creación de artes en vivo. Sabadell.

Certámen Coreográfico de Madrid

G.R.U.A

a.pass research center (Bruselas)

 

Support:

Comunidad de Madrid.

 

Duration: 50’ 

Thanks for advice, shared histories & practical help:

Vitaly Franco, Óscar Dasí, Marialena Marouda, Xiri Noir, Lilia Mestre, Shervin Kiarnesi, Pablo Sacristán, Javier Cuevas, Adán Hernández, Laura Kumin .

2023

December | Museo Regina. Pista de Baile. Cordoba Spain
November | Festival Reclam. Castellón. Spain
October | Escena Móstoles. Teatro del Bosque. Móstoles. Spain
June | Festival Kaldearte. Vitoria. Spain
 
September-January | Madrid desde el baile. CentroCentro. Video

2021

April | Teatro Pradillo. Madrid. Spain

2020

December | Certámen Coreográfico de Madrid. Centro Conde Duque. Compañia Invitada.Spain

2019

November | Fundació Suñol. Barcelona, Spain

October | Antic Teatre. Barcelona, Spain.

February | L'estruch. Sabadell, Spain.

2018

July, October | Centro Danza Canal | Resident Company. Madrid, Spain.

September | La Caldera. Barcelona, Spain.

2017

4-14 September | Leal Theater. Leal.Lav. Tenerife, Spain.

29 September | TNT Festival Nuevas Tendencias. Caravana de Trailers. Terrasa

2016

30 November-3 December | 30 Certámen Coreográfico de Madrid. Me Myself & I Solos en estado de germen. Madrid, Spain.

Press:

RTVE Si no puedo  bailar... WE CAN DANCE

RTVE. HOY EMPIEZA TODO

TEATRON. Mambo. En crudo

TEATRON. Unknown Pleasures Blog

La Opinión de Tenerife

Alrededores de la danza. La Opinión de Tenerife

 

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2024  Platform. *SEROCÉANO: ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS
Performace-Lab *SILVER BEASTS SHINE WHERE THE HORIZON BENDS
Site - Performance. *TEMPLE

Site - Perf. A DANCE FOR THE E-SPIRITS. A LETTER TO THE PLACE. A CHANT FO THE LIVING 
Site - Action.
 *OFRENDA 
Research. *TEKNETOOLBOX
2023 | Site-Perf. *CIBORGMÍSTICA: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Performance. *WE CAN DANCE 3.0
Site - Action. 
RUMOUR SUBSTRATES. PILGRIMAGE IN HONOUR OF THE DEAD
2022 | Performance-Installation. *THE RUINS. AN ESSAY ABOUT POSSIBILITY 
Site-Lab. *TALES FROM THE LAKE HOUSE
Encounter-Lab. INVOCATION OF THE BODIES AND ORGANS TO COME
Site-Lab. INTERFERENCES. SPACES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Site-Lab. MOVING WITH THE INSTITUTION
Site-Lab. TRANSITING SPACE THROUGH THE BODY

​2021 Performance-Installation*ALLÁ
  Installation. *DO BODIES DREAM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS?
Performance. *THE UNKNOWING MACHINE
Site. *FROM UP HERE THE ROOFTOPS OF MADRID REMIND ME OF MY HOMETOWN
Artistic Practice Exchage Program Co-Curator. CRUSH
2020Site. *P.A.S.E.  A CHOREOGRPHIC TOUR
SiteDANCING IN THE RUINS (OF TECHNO)
Laboratory. *WE (STILL) CAN DANCE
Practice-Laboratory. *INVOCATIONS
Texts-action. *I DON'T KNOW

Installation-Publication. *BODY MESSAGES
2019Performance. *WE CAN DANCE
 Site. *GUIDED TOUR. LCE
Site. *BEATS & SWEAT . A TRIBUTE TO SIR HENRY'S

Performance. *AFFECT
2018 | Book *MANUAL: ON WAYS TO INHABIT THIS TABLE & OTHER ISSUES
2017Research. *THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERFORMATIVE SPACE 
Site - Performance. *GUIDED TOUR
2012-2016*Previous Works

Esther
Rodriguez - Barbero

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