Dossier MRUM? (Can You Give me A Movement?)

BABIRUSA DANZA 多M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me A Movement/Gift?

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“Express our emotions through the movements of the body. Each movement, each shift, each gesture of whatever part of the body, reflects an aspect of our inner life” Rudolf Von Laban ¿ M.R.U.M.? is the result of life- experiences contained in the question Can You Give Me A Movement/Gift? thus generating a direct approach to people. We simply go out and ask people in the street this simple question, following different itineraries within the city, recording the given movements as gifts which are to become the origin of our choreographic creation.

Our working tool has always been based on interacting with people, thus collecting their free movements given to us as gifts combined with our own impressions about the whole thing.

The choreographic language has been greatly influenced by these life-experiences, allowing us to create a specific language based on this chaotic movements known as ¿M.R.U.M.?

Presentation on stage consists of 100 cardboard boxes, all in different sizes, thus creating a big wall. These boxes keep moving while the action takes place, giving the sense of different places and new situations. We also use Videomapping techniques on the cardboard boxes as a three-dimensional support in order to bring together on the stage dancers/performers and common people, using this video format. ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me A Movement/Gift? outlines the different interacting possibilities there are between free movements given to us as gifts by common people in the city, videoprojecting techniques, sound and Contemporary Dancing. ¿M.R.U.M.? reflects life in the city, enhancing interacting creative experiences among people, a trip into a new life- experience, a surprise, a funny game and above all, a great creative stimulus.

¿M.R.U.M.? ¿Can You Give Me A Movement/Gift? Consists of three parts: -Scenic Project.

-Video Installation.

-Laboratory of Contemporary Creation.

SCENIC PROJECT

Director: Beatriz Palenzuela Assistant director: Rafael de la Lastra Performed by: Noelia García Baz, Rebeca García Celdrán, Rafael de la Lastra and Beatriz Palenzuela Music: Created by Chema Palenzuela Audiovisual: Tristana Castilla Lighting Desing: Sergio G. Domínguez Photography: Jesús Robisco Length: 50 minutes Collaborators: Artist Residency at Centro de Danza Canal, Paso a 2 Plataforma Coreográfica, Proximidad Cultural Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Distrito de Tetuán, Artist Residency at Centro Cultural Eduardo Úrculo and A.C. Gruñidos Salvajes.

Web: www.meregalasunmovimiento.com Link Promo: ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me a Movement/Gift?

SYNOPSIS ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me a Movement/Gift? is an idea conceived a few years ago when we began to wonder what would happen if the movements in a choreography, instead of coming from the choreographer or the dancers, came from the inhabitants of a city. The creative process developed around these “movements gifts” which become the driving force in the performance creation. ¿M.R.U.M.? Aims to be an interactive creation between people, a lived journey, a surprise, a game and a powerful stimulation for contemporary creation.

VIDEO INSTALLATION

Director: Beatriz Palenzuela Assistant director: Rafael de la Lastra Music: Created by Chema Palenzuela Audiovisual: Tristana Castilla Collaborators: Paso a 2 Plataforma Coreográfica, Proximidad Cultural Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Distrito de Tetuán, Centro Cultural Eduardo Úrculo and A.C. Gruñidos Salvajes.

SYNOPSIS ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me a Movement/Gift? is also a video installation which is based on the movements that were given as a present by Madrid citizens during the process of the project creation. The images of the "movements gifts" can change depending on the city. The installation is projected on a stand made of cardboard boxes that differs in number and form depending on the size of the venue. The entire composition of images is displayed with one projector.

LABORATORY OF CONTEMPORARY CREATION

The laboratory of creation ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me a Movement/Gift? offers the participants to approach to the choreographic creation from another point of view. It starts from going out to the street to carry out the question: “Can you give me a movement as a present?” and collecting the movements given by citizens in a video format. This is the starting point of the creation process that is being realized onwards.

Methodology and SCHEME OF WORK The laboratory is divided into the following parts: 

The first part is about coming into contact, having a chat about the concept which will be developed during the Laboratory ¿M.R.U.M.? Can You Give Me a Movement/Gift? and a brief presentation of the participants.

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In the second part the participants will be divided into work groups and an itinerary of the nearest areas of the place where the Laboratory will take place will be designed. Every group will have a video camera in order to shoot the given movements.

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In the third part all the participants will gather in the dance hall to share the impressions of the movement collecting experience.

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In the fourth part a warm-up will be carried out to wake up the body and to enter to the physicality.

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In the fifth part of the laboratory the participants are invited to study the gifts (movements) of the citizens and later on each group will work on the material of the video recordings obtained in the morning and will elaborate a choreographic composition.

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In the sixth part every group will show the realized choreographic work and further on the conversation will be carried out with the aim of comparing different ways of approaching the same concept.

Number of participants: de 10 a 25.

Age: Teenagers and adults.

Type of participants: amateurs and professionals.

Length: between 6 and 8 hours.

Materials: Work space and video cameras provided by the participants

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Babirusa Danza is an independent company founded by Beatriz Palenzuela and Rafael de la Lastra in

2005 in Madrid with the intention of finding a new way of expression between Contemporary Dance and Fhysical Theatre. They use music, video, theatre and dance to create images to communicate with the audience. Babirusa Danza has created Las Tacitas de Tﾃｩ (2004), Sillitas (2005), De Museumnacht (2006) and Lines (2008).

Beatriz Palenzuela won the Prize AISGE XX Madrid Choreography Contest as outstanding Dancer 2006 with De Museumnacht thus allowing her to attend the American Dance Festival 2007.

In the United States the company Babirusa Danza participated in the American Dance Festival Video Showing 2007.

With the piece Lines (2008) showed for the first time in the Theatre Pradillo, in the cycle of New Creators Gracias x Favor, they reached the final in the International Contest of Dance Burgos-Nueva York 2008, in the section of New Tendencies and won a scholarship of Dance WEB Europe ImPulsTanz by Melania Olcina in the Choreographic Contest of Madrid 2008 and participated in the X International Festival of Theatre and Art in the Street in Valladolid 2009.

With the production Folds the company Babirusa Danza was invited to perform for the first time in the Body Navigation Festival of San Petersburg in October 2009. The company obtained artistic residency in El Navegatorio 2009 and technical residency in the theatre la R.E.S.A.D. for the creation of this piece.

With the production Communication Breakdown (2010), Babirusa Danza won the second video dance prize in the II Photography and Video Dance Contest CAPTURADANZA 2010. With the same production, Babirusa Danza was awarded the prize of B.I.D.E. (Barcelona International Dance Exchange) in the XXIV Choreographic Contest of Madrid 2010. ﾃ］imo Animal (2011) a contemporary dance piece created for non-conventional spaces was opened in the XII International Festival of Theatre and Art in the Street in Valladolid 2011.

BEATRIZ PALENZUELA MARTÍNEZ: Direction, choreography and performer.

Beatriz has studied Classic Dance with Iom Beitia and the Royal Academy of Dancing. In Contemporary Dance, she has studied in Carmen Senra (Madrid), Henny Jurriens Stiching (Ámsterdam) and Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid.

She has performed as a dancer with Larumbe Danza, Teresa Nieto, Michell Man , Pedro Berdäyes and Sharon Fridman. She was a member of Trasdanza 2008 with the choreographers Damián Muñoz, Carmen Werner, Daniela Merlo, Michelle Man, Nicolas Rambaud and Teresa Nieto.

She founds Babirusa Danza with Rafael de la Lastra where she develops her work as a choreographer and a performer creating: De Museumnacht, Lines, Folds, Communication Breakdown and Ánimo Animal. Short after founding Babirusa Danza, she obtained the Prize as an Oustanding Dancer 2006 during the celebration of the XX Certamen Coreográfico of Madrid, allowing her to attend the American Dance Festival 2007. In ADF she took part in The Forsythe Project with Richard Siegal, Nik Haffner and Dana Caspersen. She has also studied Composition along with David Dorfman and Zeleste Miller, Improvisation and Contact with Ismael Huston Jones and Curt Haworth, Modern dance Technique with Abby Jager (Trisha Brown) and Mark Haim and Magistral Classes with Jenifer Nugent, Eiko and Koma, David Dorfman and Iguana Dance Theatre.

With the production Folds, she was invited to perform for the first time in the Body Navigation Festival of Saint Petersburg in October of 2009 and obtained artistic residency in El Navegatorio and R.E.S.A.D. Madrid.

With Communication Breakdown, Beatriz Palenzuela was price-winning with 2nd Prize Videodanza II Concurso Capturadanza Teatro de Madrid 2010 and Prize B.I.D.E. Barcelona International Dance Exchange in XXIV Certamen Coreográfico of Madrid 2010.

In B.I.D.E was price-winning with a grant to attend to Festival Internacional Contact Meets Contemporary Göttingen 2011 and selected to participate in Festival Video CanalMono Barcelona in May 2011.

RAFAEL DE LA LASTRA GARCÍA: Assistant director, creation and performer.

Rafael studied Interpretation in Cuarta Pared Madrid and Physical Theater in Taller de Formación y Creación Teatral directed by Mª Mar Navarro and Andrés Hernández and Mime Workshops in Theatre School Amsterdam. He studied Contemporary Dance with Michelle Man, Beatriz Palenzuela, Sharon Fridman, Marta Carrasco, Iñaki Azpillaga,10&10 Danza and David Zambrano in Madrid and on the Henny Jurriens Stiching in Amsterdam. In American Dance Festival he participated in The Forsythe Project with Richard Siegal, Nik Haffner and Dana Caspersen. He also studied Composition with David Dorfman and Zeleste Miller, Improvisation and Contact with Ismael Huston Jones and Curt Haworth, Modern dance Technique with Abby Jager ( Trisha Brown) and Mark Haim and Magistral Classes with Jenifer Nugent, Eiko and Koma, David Dorfman and Iguana Dance Theatre.

He worked by El Curro DT in XVII Festival Internacional Madrid en Danza 2002, by Els Comediants and by Babirusa Danza where is creator and performer.

He founds Babirusa Danza with Beatriz Palenzuela where he develops his work as a choreographer and a performer creating: De Museumnacht, Lines, Folds, Communication Breakdown and Ánimo Animal.

With the production Folds, he was invited to perform for the first time in the Body Navigation Festival of Saint Petersburg in October of 2009 and obtained artistic residencies in El Navegatorio and R.E.S.A.D. Madrid.

In 2011 he participated in Festival B.I.D.E Barcelona International Dance Exchange where he was selected to participate in Festival Video CanalMono Barcelona 2011 and Festival Internacional Contact Meets Contemporary Göttingen 2011.

NOELIA GARCÍA BAZ: Performer and creation.

Noelia has studied ballet and contemporary dance with different teachers and has participated in various international festivals and encounters with artists and creators of diverse artistic areas (dance, circus, theatre, music) in Barcelona, Berlin, Belgium and Vienna.

She has taken contemporary dance classes with Michelle Man, Francesc Bravo, Carmen Werner, Teresa Nieto, 10&10 and Daniel Abreu, and composition classes with Guillermo Weickert and Nicolas Rambaud. In Brussels she studies in La Raffinerie and in Jette with the group Les Slovaks, Cruz Mata, David Zambrano; with Lali Ayguade and Anton Lachky she studies repertory (Hofesh Shechter and Akram Khan) and composition with Roberto Olivan.

In 2008, she participates in the Multidisciplinary Performance Art and Cultural Exchange and in Ponderosa Tanzland Festival held in Berlin, taking classes of improvisation with Israeli creator Shahar Dor, contact and basics of martial arts applied to dance with Jorg Hassman, Sebastián Ferro, Wolfgang Ranft, Ricardo de Paulo and Bruno Caverna.

In 2010, she participates in the ImPuls Tanz 2010 where she studied partnering with Rasmus Olme, Josef Fruzec & Linda Kapetanea, repertory of Trisha Brown with Shelly Senter, and composition with David Dorfman.

Professionally she has worked in various productions with the director, choreographer and performer Michelle Man: Sueños - the production of Circus Theatre Price 2007-2008, Seasons with Ensemble Sinkro in the XI Neopercussion cycle of the district Chamberí 2010-2011.

With the company La Phármaco she participates as a performer in the piece El Libro de los Venenos which was awarded by Injuve 2009 as the best scenic proposal and in Málaga Crea 2009 she has received a honorable mention for the best dancers.

With the company Fugapiés she participates in the creation of the production Connection 2007, directed by Israeli choreographer Sharon Fridman.

In 2009, Noelia sets up Vado Permanente with a group of dancers which emerges from the intention to approach dance to other public, representing it in another places; here by creating different pieces for the Archaeological museum of Madrid she develops her choreographic and performer’s skills.

REBECA GARCÍA CELDRÁN: Interpretación y creación.

Born in Santander where she graduated at Centro Autorizado de danza Belín Cabrillo. Degree in Spanish dance in 2002 by the Royal Conservatory of Dance Mariemma (RCPDM). Afterwards she travels to Madrid and contacts with contemporary dance in the Carmen Senra Dance Studio.

Her process as creative starts at Conservatory of Dance María de Ávila, as a student of choreography, with pieces such as No hay 3 sin 4, Sigo detrás, and Por los pelos, with which she was invited to participate in the cycle of emerging artists Gracias x Favor. In December 2012 she was selected to participate in the Choreography Contest in Madrid with the piece Acecho, obtaining an artist residence in La Caldera de Barcelona and the Award for Outstanding Dancer granting by AISGE Foundation with a scholarship to the Amercian Dance Festival .

She currently teaches contemporary dance in Santander, develops her creative side with Manuel Martín as part of the group "My madder" and she is also part of the project MRUM? (Can You Give Me a Movement?) by Babirusa Danza Company.

CHEMA PALENZUELA: Musical Composition.

Chema initiates his studies of singing at the music conservatory AtaĂşlfo Argenta of Santander. Later he gets interested in the piano and enters to the world of modern music, Jazz, Blues, Funky, etc.

After having finished his studies with great masters of piano, Chema gets involved in electronic music by setting up his own recording studio. He has taken part in diverse musical groups as an instrumentalist and an arranger.

Since his childhood he was keen on dance and movement, taking ballet and modern dance classes.

While working with the company Babirusa Danza, Chema has created a soundtrack for Folds, the piece which had its premiere in San Petersburg and whose dance video was awarded the second video dance prize in the II Photography and Video Dance contest CAPTURADANZA Theatre of Madrid 2010.

TRISTANA CASTILLA: Video creation and projection.

Tristana has graduated in audiovisual communication at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2003, she starts her dance training by getting into diverse dance styles: Jazz, Ballet, Funky, Flamenco, Oriental dance, Air acrobatics.

Since 2006 she studies contemporary dance in depth with Gustavo de Ceglie. She broadens her audiovisual education by means of workshops: Cinematographic photography (CECAN-EICTV), Screenplay and cinematographic direction (Encantada School, La Palma). In 2010, she travels to Cuba to the Cinema and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños with the aim of participating in the workshop Cámaras Danzantes (Dancing cameras) and in such a way discovers the unity of video and dance, her two passions.

She is a screenwriter, producer and editor of Temporal, Espacios, Panal, Irrational thinking objective emotion and other visual creations.

In 2011, the production Espacios gets the Honorable Mention and Panal is selected for the projection on the big screen by the VIII International Festival Dance For The Camera in the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

As a performer Tristana participates in CMYK by Elena Sala, Breathe by Valeria Valentina, Yogurt by Felipe López, Danción by Jermán Catalán and Balon alone by Dasiel Cruz. She has made practice in the department of thematic programs (RTVE). Currently, Tristana is studying master of Scenic Arts at the URJC.

SERGIO G. DOMINGUEZ: Lighting design.

Sergio has graduated at the Fine Arts Faculty of Madrid Complutense University (1991-1996) and has participated in various specialization courses: Scenic Lighting Course at the Centre of the Spectacle t Technology with Jaume Aiza (Barcelona 2005), workshop Perseguidores de Sombras (Pursuers of Shadows) by the company La Cónica Lacónica (Barcelona UNIMA 2006) and the direction course of the INAEM (Comunidad de Madrid, 2007).

From 2006 to 2008 he has worked as a lighting and sound technician at the theatre Pradillo in Madrid.

Similarly, he has worked as a lightning designer and technician for the companies Daniel Abreu (Canarias), Nabeirarrúa Danza (Madrid), Provisional Danza (Madrid), Paloma Calle (Madrid), Angel Corella (Castilla la Mancha), Megaló Teatro Móvil (Madrid), 87 Grillos (Madrid), Sin Aliento (Madrid), Simona Ferrar (Suiza), La Sombra de tu Perro (Madrid), Projects in Movements (Israel-Madrid), Jesús Rubio (Madrid), Babirusa Danza (Madrid) and Onírica Mecánica (Murcia).

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