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PRIZE FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE PROPOSITION PUPPET THEATRE FAIR 2013

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Synopsis Our world has changed completely in the last 50 years.

We’ve achieved to land on the moon, cure diseases, eliminate hard work, revolutionize communication, travel at high speed…

Science, technology and medicine have overcome the obstacles that the human being found on his way.

But, does all of that make us happier?

FRÁGIL is a performance of robots and objects about the place that machines and technology take in the world of constant change.

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406

About the performance Frágil emerges from the latest constructions by Raúl Martínez (ferroluar.com), mechanical beings that despite their apparent hardness perform delicate movements of a rare fragility.

Taking as a start point those machines, Jesús Nieto (oniricamecanica.com) gives the soul to their movements creating a surprising and singular mechanics-poetics.

The common work of two artists gives the beginning to the study of the fragility and the mechanics, a metaphor for the harsh human appearance that hides our fragile nature.

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406

Robots, words and poetic actions performance Duration - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - 45 min Language - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish (it can be represented in any language though) Public - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Adults (there is a version for teenagers from 11 years old)

Premiere on 3rd of may of 2013 at Puppet Theatre Fair of LLEIDA, where it was rewarded with

PRIZE FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE PROPOSITION

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406

Cast Mechanics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Raúl Martínez Poetics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jesús Nieto

Actors-manipulators - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Jesús Nieto, Enrique de la Cañina, Adriá Pinar

Mechanical devices created by: - - - - - - - - Raúl Martínez.

Robot’s electronics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Sound design - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pedro Guirao Light - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OM Dramaturgy and direction - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jesús Nieto.

Grafic design - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - El tercero Photography - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Salvi Vivancos

French version - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cesáreo González.

English version - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Natalia Carbajosa Thanks to: Julieta Agustí, José Luis Sánchez and Sylvia Cabanas

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406

Sobre ONÍRICA MECÁNICA Jesús Nieto, under the name Onírica Mecánica, creates poetic-mechanicalimaginary worlds for all those that love the extraordinary. His research challenges the feeling of what is “real,” the tyranny of what is visible, the devaluation of the spoken word, and every paradigm of “truth” that our modern society imposes.

Awards and Special Mentions: 2013 MOST INNOVATIVE IDEA AWARD . Fira de Titelles Lleida. Frágil.

2012-2011 INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE, Fira de titelles Lleida. AUTONOMOUS JURY-SPECIAL MENTION, Fira de titelles Lleida. CHOSEN BY THE ALTERNATIVE THEATERS NETWORK AND INAEM to tour. Chosen for the FOREIGN PROMOTION OF PERFORMING ARTS CATALOG by the AECID and INSTITUTO CERVANTES. Project grant for his development of ETC (Contemporary Theater Space) Cuarta Pared (Fourth Wall) Resident artist at AVAM WORKSHOPS and TEATRO PRADILLO. 2010 L´EXCORXADOR THEATER CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS AWARD finalist. INCUVADORA GRANT finalist. FESTIVAL PANORAMA OLOT. MATADERO MADRID production assistance. COMUNIDAD DE MADRID (Madrid Community) production assistance.CHOSEN BY THE ALTERNATIVE THEATERS NETWORK and INAEM to tour.

2009 WARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN, Fira de titelles de Lleida. INTERNATIONAL JURY-SPECIAL MENTION, Fira de Tittelles de Lleida. JURY-SPECIAL MENTION, FETEN, Gijón.

2008 MOST INNOVATIVE IDEA AWARD, Fira de titelles de Lleida. BEST PLAYWRITE AWARD, Fira de titelles de Lleida.

Onírica Mecánica has shown their productions at the major festivals and events in: France, Italy, Morocco, Venezuela, Brasil, Spain…

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406

About FERROLUAR Raúl Martínez creates organic movements with materials that, fundamentally, may seem cold and inexpressive, objects that recover a second youth. Machines? Toys? Robots?

As a base of his constructions he uses recycled parts and materials trying to find a balance between the animal mobility, physiognomy and aesthetics and to express the essence of something alive and vibrant.

Awards and citations 2013 PRIZE FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE PROPOSITION. PUPPET THEATRE FAIR OF LLEIDA, Frágil.

2010 FIRST PRIZE TO THE EXHIBITION PROPOSITION, Palamós 2009 SECOND PRIZE OF THE CITY of Viladecans, 2009 Ferroluar have shown his creations in the main showrooms of Spain, France and Chile. His pieces are part of permanent collections such as the Museo’s Marítimo de Barcelona.

His exhibition VIDA ACUÁTICA was selected by: Generalitat de Catalunya, Festival de Artes Imaginarias de Santander, Titirimundi, Teatralia, Festival Marionnettissimo, Forum Art Pantin, Reciclar-te or Fira de Tárrega.

Difusión: Utopía Jesús Nieto / Raúl Martínez oniricamecanica.com ferroluar.com difusion@oniricamecanica.com + 34 653451406