‘Terrarium [The tender indifference of the world]’ is a piece with a sandpaper texture. Rough, raw and wild, the piece explores the gregariousness and indifference we show towards the social context that surrounds us.

 

Six strangers find themselves in an unknown space with no entrance or exit door. They don’t know how long they have been there. They don’t know where they come from or where they are going. And above all, they have no rules or guidelines for judging the others. They are forced to live with their disorientation and bewilderment. Their only reference is a wall that rises at the bottom of the space behind which they think they sense the existence of someone or something that has abandoned them.

 

A microscopic look at our society, where six individuals, like gladiators thrown into the arena, weave their relationships with the otherness. Untamed and feral, alien to social composure, their main weapon is madness.

 

CO-PRODUCTION

Teatros del Canal, Centro Coreográfico Canal (Madrid, Spain)

 

SUPPORTS / AWARDS

⋅ Centro Coreográfico Canal. Residente company: Research residency (2021), Creation residency (2022)

⋅ Grant for coreographic production from Comunidad de Madrid 2022

⋅ Espai de Creació L’Obrador (Deltebre, Tarragona). Research residency (2021)

⋅ Selected piece in the 35th Madrid Choreographic Contest (2021). Prices: Conservatorio Superior María de Ávila (guest teacher) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (resident company)

⋅ Compañía Nacional de Danza (Madrid). Creation residency (2022)

⋅ La Faktoría (Pamplona). Creation residency (2022)

⋅ Centro Cultural Paco Rabal (Madrid)

⋅ Centro Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga (La Cabrera, Madrid). Technical residency

 

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL INFO

Premier: 24th and 25th September 2022/ Teatros del Canal (Madrid, Spain)

Length: 75 minutes

Genre: Contemporary Dance

Lenguage: Spanish

No. performers: 6

 

Direction, choreography and dramaturgy

Mercedes Pedroche

 

Performers

María Fagúndez, Milagros Galiano, Lionel Giacomelli, David Grimaldi, Juana Jodar, María Arronis

 

Original Music and Sound Design

Borja Ramos

 

Musicians

Clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet: Eduardo Raimundo

Violin, viola: Mario Pérez

Guitars, ukuleles: Arturo Blasco

Guitars, bass, piano, electronics: Borja Ramos

 

Mastering

Juanan Ros – El Cantón de la Soledad

 

Lighting and technical coordination

Inés de la Iglesia

 

Costumes

Mercedes Pedroche

 

Costume arrangements

Marisa Maggi

 

Video

Eva Viera, Urbanfakirfilms, María Artiaga

 

Photography

Blanca Razquil, Juan Carlos Arévalo, Ana Erdozain, Mercedes Pedroche

 

Dsitribution and Production

Mercedes Pedroche

 

Production Assistant

Mariano Repollés

 

Acknowledgements

Agustín Bellusci, Sergio Algora, Danza 180, Ana Erdozain, Nicole Fresnedo, Romain Ruchaud