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| Sabrina Lastman "Un encuentro con el duende" |
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| “Decime qué escuchás” |
Pablo
García Gámez
The Baruch Performance Arts Center and IRT
Theater
will host from July 27 to August 12 the 5th Performing Arts Marathon
(PAM), an avant-garde festival where dance and theater explore
alternative techniques.
For Winston Estévez, Artistic Director of
Teatro IATI, which is producing the marathon, “The festival provides
the opportunity for artists who want to do something different.”
The marathon opens with “Un encuentro con el
Duende” (“An Encounter with El Duende”), by Sabrina Lastman based on songs and
poems by Federico García Lorca. “The
performance includes pre-recorded texts and sounds combined with the playing of
instruments,
and projections of Lorca’s drawings,” says Lastman.
Opening
the same day is “Decime qué escuchás” (“Face the Music”) by Sol Pereyra and
directed by Gerardo Gudiño. Two women meet
for music therapy sessions: one is the psychologist while the other is the
patient. During these sessions they hear
Mozart, Metallica as well as the Cuarteto Cordobés, an Argentinean variant of the
cumbia.
“The actors and I have been working not just with
the rhythm of the dialogues,” says Gudiño, “but also with the rhythm of the movements.”
“Taal
se Tall” (“Math Your Rhythm to Mine”) by The Kathak Ensembre and
Friends/Caravan opens on July 28. The group
presents a work where Kathak, a North Indian traditional dance mixes with Western
and Bollywood style music.
That
same day, Loren Escandon will interpret a prostitute in “Montera” a fusion of
theater and dance written by her.
Cloud
of Fools Theater Company will also open on July 28. “The Whistling Mortician,” is
set in 1870, one day following the onset of the Prussian War when the main
character gets in trouble as he whistles the wrong national anthem.
“Heart
of a Dirty Platform” is presented by Janusphere Dance beginning August 2. An urban relationship on a subway platform is
recreated through modern dance and multimedia.
The
same day, Caborca Theatre presents “El correo de la noche” (“Night Delivery”). Directed by Javierantonio González and Eloísa
Jaramillo, the play deals with the fear of the unknown utilizing a non-linear narrative,
and includes acting, dance, music, and video.
“The
cast plays with the audience,” says González.
“Reincarnations”
opens on August 3. This aerial and dance
work is created by Dzul Dance. It
combines pre-Hispanic mythologies and modern Mexican icons such as Emiliano
Zapata, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
On
August 10, the group j33tre presents “Nella Foresta” (“In the Forest”), by
Gyles Smith. It incorporates life sized puppets; Marc, the main character, realizes
that fairy tales reflect his reality.
Void
Theater opens that day with “Luz de mañana en un traje marrón” (“Dawn in a
Brown Suit”) by Argentinean author Daniel Veronese; in which, a couple’s daily
life disintegrates.
“La
quinta luna” (“The Fifth Moon”) by Flamenco & Sol opens on August 11.
Through modern flamenco, the ensemble represents the womanly forces of the moon.
PERFORMING ARTS MARATHON
WHEN: from July 26 to August 12
WHERE: Baruch Performance Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue and IRT Theater, 154
Christopher Street.
INFORMATION: teatroiati.org
/ (212) 505-6757.
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