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Title: 
amanecer alto cielo
Programme: 
eszenAZ. Live Arts Season
Date: 
11-04-2024
Place: 
Auditorium, floor -1
Artist(s): 
Díaz, Nazario (1985- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Performance
Tags: 
Dance
Summary: 

Three bodies with no gaze speak words in a sort of triangle in which the vertices move about coming closer together or moving farther apart...

In amanecer alto cielo he proposes the fading away of language as a stage element through a series of different textual practices that intertwine its material forms. Furthermore, he tackles the different qualities of vision and how these alter people’s bodies and perceptions of them, inspired by some of the practices surrounding the gaze proposed by the choreographer and video-artist Lisa Nelson. We have a dance of hands that look, eyes that touch, and bodies that erase themselves.

‘Whereas before I dealt with objects and with my own body in order to wear them down through insistent action, my current work revives the idea of the wearing-down and disappearance of a body – that totem that is seen as a physical, moral, and spiritual entity – but this time it is also a slippery body, i.e. textuality’, explains Nazario Díaz.

In amanecer alto cielo, three bodies with no gaze speak words in a sort of triangle in which the vertices move about coming closer together or moving farther apart, establishing equilateral, isosceles, or scalene relationships between them, organizing palpable and subjective distances between what is named and what is already starting to disintegrate.
Description: 

Concept and choreography: Nazario Díaz
Co-creation and performance: Julián Pacomio, Ibon Salvador, Nazario Díaz
Dramaturgic accompaniment: Carolina Campos
Lighting design: Leticia Skrycky
Sound design: Ce Pams
Production: Silvia Coppola, Kurzuth Silverstone
Co-production: Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Residencies and support: El Consulado Fonteta (Valencia), Tenerife Lav, Dantzagunea | Sortutakoak (Errenteria), Harrobia | Eszenabide (Bilbao), Azkuna Zentroa | Alhóndiga (Bilbao), Lekuona Fabrika (Errenteria), Citemor (Portugal)
Acknowledgements and affective interlocution: Álvaro Albaladejo, Tomás Aragay, Koldo Arostegui, Sofía Asencio, Álvaro Borrajo Alemany, Igor Calonge, Juan Diego Calzada, Javier Cuevas, Lucas Damiani, Isaak Erdoiza, Terri Florido, Daniel Hernández, María Ibarretxe, Igor Koruga, Jean Lesca, Ángela López, Julia Martos, Ángela Millano, Isabel de Naverán, Vasco Neves, Gus de la Orden, Fernando Pérez, Marina Suárez Ortiz de Zárate, Maia Villot de Diego, (…)

During its stay in Lisbon, amanecer alto cielo is an investigation accompanied by Nina Botkay, Bruno Brandolino, Lucas Damiani, Carolina Campos, João Fiadeiro, Julian Pacomio, Daniel Pizamiglio, Santiago Rodríguez Tricot, Alina Ruiz Folini, Ibon Salvador, Leticia Skrycky, and Forum Dança/PACAP5.

amanecer alto cielo is conceived in 2022 as part of the PACAP5 advanced creation in performative arts programme, curated by João Fiadeiro for Forum Dança, Lisbon, and is premiered at Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, in April 2024.

Photo © Lucas Damiani
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Scenic arts