“Today I had the estrange sensation of, While remembering something, Feeling that I already lived it”
The Story
After writing theater music for about seven years I started my first composition and recording exercise without a script as a headline. The result: noticeably incidental. I created the main theme of soon-to-create stories without realizing it.
That first exercise ended as eight themes that tell, among others, an intense year of my life. I called it: Escritorio.
MDE (stands for typewriter in Spanish) is Escritorio‘s first theme and is inspired by the moment a writer, composer or artist starts to create, to make tangible any idea, when he concentrates a lot of memories and ideas and, by moments, feels fluidity at creating.
MDE drives the beginning of a series of introspections behind the piano, the guitar and a computer, as well as the production of themes at the solitude of my room. Every song I’ve recorded until today, foracantilado; El hombre que ríe; La uña, el martillo & The Impossible Thoughts or any other project owes something to MDE.
It’s been a year since the first conversation. A study translated into wind and percussion instruments based on prime numbers and pi. Structure, rhythm, melody and even the length of each theme are linked to the main number. Within each track I hear a discussion about the reality that defines us and transcends the limits of the individual – always present. Conflict is inescapable, at the end is finally forgotten. Oblivion is inevitable.
I went to my lab, I took the cuatro and recorded a rhythm, then recorded two accompanying notes. A few days later I found a bass line to guide the idea. For some reason I always thought of Cachaito. Instrument after instrument: guitar, piano, brass, and percussion toys, one after another, were strengthening the whole idea. This song is for him, who played and thought impossible. It’s a veiled picture.
We live in a moment and in a country where we are surrounded by elements that disturb us emotionally.
We’re surrounded by so many changes, a crisis we may say. We’re surrounded by the unfair and the inexplicable. On a side, we find elements of satisfaction just by rising our sight. We’re in the middle of a social upheaval. We react with hunger, fear, joy and grief. Today we are dreaming what yesterday was repudiated and we are accepting as truth what yesterday was lie.
After two months of intense changes, including frustrations, achievements, exhaustion, rest, dreams, travel, music and noise; in the middle of a piano, a cuatro, and baby toys, I’m finally understanding:
I’m in shock …
and sometimes the commotion that moves slowly is the most violent of all.
How does a person react when its familiar environment isn’t secure any more?
How fragile does then the own existance seem to be?
Which unknown strength and creative forces are unleashed?
A team of six dancers from Venezuela and a German choreographer with different physicalities have looked for these and more questions in an exciting eight-weeks creative period.
As second part of the project Upheaval, which will takes place in Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Lebanon and Germany, CONtraSENTIDO will tour in Germany after its Caracas world premier.
SALA JUANA SUJO, LA CASA DEL ARTISTA -
FESTIVAL DIVERSIDAD DANZADA 2012
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH / VIERNES 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE
6.30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH / SÁBADO 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE
5.00 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH / DOMINGO 30 DE SEPTIMEBRE
11.00 AM
PLAZA DE LOS PALOS GRANDES
‘CONTRASENTIDO’ EXCERPTS / EXTRACTOS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH / DOMINGO 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE
5.00 PM
SALA CABRUJAS
DOCUMENTARY “THE OTHER BODY” BY GERHARD SCHICK IN PRESENCE OF VENEZUELIAN AND GERMAN ARTISTS /
DOCUMENTAL “EL OTRO CUERPO. DANZA Y TABÚ EN SAN PABLO.” DE GERHARD SCHICK, CON LA PRESENCIA DE LOS ARTISTAS VENEZOLANOS Y ALEMANES.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH / DOMINGO 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE
6.00 PM
CREDITS/FICHA TÉCNICA
Dancers/Bailan: Jorge Luis Ansidey, María Fernanda Castillo,
José Conde, Alejandra Peña,
Julio Loaiza, Fabiola Zérega
Choreography/Coreografía:
Gerda König
Choreographic Assistance/Asistencia coreográfica:
Gitta Roser
Video/Videoarte: León Grauer
Stage design/Escenografía:
Edwin Erminy
Original Music/Música original:
Xavier Losada
Lights/Iluminación:
Jorge Luis Redondo
Costumes/Vestuario:
Juan Carlos Vivas
Rehearsal assistant/Asistencia de ensayos: Constanze Lemmerich
Direction AM and Cultural Coach/Dirección AM y Asesor Cultural:
Alexander Madriz
Production direction/Dirección de producción:
Gustavo Fijalkow
