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LEOPARDS AND DEVICES

Leopards and Devices is a piece conceived as a scenic experience where the public is an active part of the action. With a hybrid language, halfway between theater and dance, the work is inspired by the essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” written by Albert Camus and the concept of the eternal return of Nietzsche. Through an iterative device, a woman channels a collective experiment on freedom.

 

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.

 

SUPPORTS

⋅ Award for Best Performing and Award for Best Staging at the XIII CENIT 2021 (Contest of New Theatrical Researchers) / TNT-Atalaya (Sevilla, Spain)

 

⋅ Candidate for the Premios Max de las Artes Escénicas 2021 in the categories of Best New Authorship and Best Female Dance Performer

 

Winning piece of the Research and Creation Residency A GATAS 2019, 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

Inés de la Iglesia

 

Sound space designer

Borja Ramos

 

Original music

Borja Ramos, Vidal

 

Set design and costume

Mercedes Pedroche

 

Photography

Ciro Pérez, Eva Viera

 

Video

Eva Viera

 

Distribution assistant

Elisa Pérez

 

Production assistant

Mariano Repollés

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