A woman, curtailed by the absurdity of Camus’ Sisyphus, lives trapped in the quagmire of a cyclical experience. She roams around listlessly, like a female leopard in a solitary cage, denying creeds and flock mentality. Almost incapable of finding the strength to support her own weight, and conscious of her vulnerability, she follows the tracks from her own failure to the vital impulse that enables her to live in the margin of the embellished and fictitious beliefs that set in motion the social mechanisms. She searches for the complicity of the audience in a collective reflexion, and asks herself if we want or can find freedom in the dance to which Nietzsche so often referred.
Leopards and Devices is a hybrid stage performance incorporating both theatre and dance. Through an iterative device a woman canalizes a collective experiment about freedom.
SUPPORTS
⋅ Winning piece of the Research and Creation Residency A GATAS, promoted by Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Teatro de la Abadía and RESAD (Royal Superior School of Dramatic Arts/ Madrid)
⋅ Aid for Choreographic Production 2019 from the Comunidad de Madrid
⋅ Artistic residency at Centro de Danza Canal (Madrid)
⋅ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
⋅ Dance creation grant from Alcaldía de Medellín (Colombia)
⋅ Pequeño Teatro de Medellín (Colombia)
⋅ Casa de la música (Medellín, Colombia)
ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL INFO
Premier: 2019. Teatro de la Abadía (Madrid, Spain)
Length: 90 minutes (aprox.)
Genre: Contemporary (theater and dance)
Lenguage: Spanish
No. performers: 1
Direction, texts, choreography and performance
Mercedes Pedroche
Stage concept
Felipe Caicedo, Mercedes Pedroche
Assistant direction
Martina Novakova
External view
Pablo Messiez
Lighting design
Cía de la Luz
Sound space designer
Borja Ramos
Original music
Borja Ramos, Vidal
Set design and costume
Mercedes Pedroche
Photography
Ciro Pérez, Eva Viera
Video
Eva Viera
Production assistant
Mariano Repollés
08/06/2018
