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Title: 
Principiantes
Programme: 
eszenAZ. Live Arts Season
Date: 
12-12-2024
Place: 
Lantegia 1, Kubo Baltza, floor 1
Artist(s): 
Mantecón, Carlota (1984 - )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Dance
Tags: 
Body
Women
Women´s Studies
Summary: 
Principiantes is a contemporary stage creation practice inviting 10 women over 60 to take part in the construction of a collective group, activating their bodies, voices, boosting ways to be together on a stage where they go from a highly individual “I” to a collective “we”.
Ballerina and choreographer Carlota Mantecón accompanies them in this process, providing dance and performative tools besides activating the practice which is finally shared with the audience as a stage device.
Description: 
Principiantes came about from the desire to give value to the creation of a collective body with women over 60. A group activated with amateur non-academic bodies where we question the value of a moving body in a collective act, i.e. a body activated between the autonomy of the unique and power of the plural.  
 The women have seen how their flesh has turned flaccid in a society where the image of eternal youth functions and reigns. Hence with this practice the opening of a space of freedom is propitiated from the body among the mature ones. At the end of this process we meet up with the audience’s look which becomes complicit with the practice as it forms a circle with them inside the stage box, thus becoming part of this collective act.

Artistic information sheet:

Concept, choreographer, facilitator: Carlota Mantecón
Performers: 10 local women
Sound: La bailarina, Alberto Iglesias / Made to Stray, Mount Kimbie  
Distribution: Peso producciones / Cristina Pérez Sosa

Image © Alberto Reverón

Appears in Collections:
Scenic arts