Dossier enneagram tres llums by Heredia Beatriz

L’ennéagramme A 451 Production Year of production: 2011 Genre: Video dance Runtime: 15:00 minutes Format: HD 1920 /Widescreen/ Colour Director and producer: Jonathan Bellés Art director and producer: Beatriz Heredia Choreography: Sheila Toledo Original music: Raquel Heredia

The images will stimulate your thinking, the dance will excite your instincts and music will awake your feeling.

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ennéagramme (The Ennegram) is a dance video created in 2011 by the Spanish visual artists Beatriz Heredia and Jonathan Bellés. The Enneagram of the personality or simply the Enneagram, inspired this dance video. It is an ancient knowledge from Central Asia and represents a model of human personality through nine interconnected types of personalities. The theory says that these nine types of personality are at the roots of the human race. The personalities are clustered in three big groups: the mental, the instinct and the emotional. In ancient times, the Enneagram had been performed as a live dance, so Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia wanted to take up this original concept and create a dance video, representing the three personalities. Their main goal was to transmit through dance the basic systems that rule the human being. First of all, they contacted the choreographer Sheila Toledo, who developed with them the three dances.

The first dance, based on the “mental type”, was created like a classical dance, similar to a classical ballet with traditional forms, a formal style and composed following classical traditions. According to the Enneagram, the “mental type” is a perfectionist, intellectual and rational person. Raquel Heredia is the composer of this dance video and created an original music according to these ideas. She plays a grand piano theme based on classical roles. The second dance is about the “instinct type”. As the name says, this kind of personality is normally full of energy and passion. This is why Toledo creates a contemporary dance based on a Pina Bausch style. We can appreciate in this part a blend of different movements and sounds, and the prominent use of different sceneries, (here we used a cage). Of course, the music changes completely. We have a violin theme, directed by Raquel Heredia and performed by Miguel Ángel Navarro. This personality is shrill and impulsive, so the music reminds us on that. The dance and the music are in a contemporary style as well. The prevailing colour in the scenery is red. L’ennéagramme © 2011. All rights reserved

Finally, the third dance is based on the “emotional type”. It means people who base their life on emotions, or people who are “living in the past”. For this theory, we create an abstract dance. A dance based on passion and emotions. Based on the Bauhaus dances, Toledo brings us simple gestures and dramatic expressions, as she is playing with her sobbing and crying. The main colour is of the scenery is blue. Regarding the music, the composer plays again the grand piano and creates a new piece about feelings. Corresponding to the dance style, the music is of abstract nature. In a nutshell, Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia present an unique dance video based on the types of personality through three different dance styles: classical, contemporary and abstract dance. The video expresses the most powerful and common feelings of the human race. Play video dance Unlisted video

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Tres llums A 451 Production Year of production: 2012 Genre: Video dance Runtime: 9:20 minutes Format: HD 1920 /Widescreen/ Colour/ B&W Director and producer: Jonathan Bellés Art director and producer: Beatriz Heredia Choreography: Sheila Toledo Original music: José Antonio Esteban

res llums (Three Lights) is the second video dance created by Director Jonathan Bellés and the team of 451 Productions. It was realized with public grants from “Residencia de los artistas LAS NAVES” in Valencia, Spain. The topic of the dance video is the “natural light”. Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia chose three different types of lights to represent it: “the light of dawn”, “the light of noon” and “the light of dusk”. An actress interprets each type of light. So, three female characters play the lights. However, the last sequence is reserved for the night. An actor plays this role. The night is represented through the shadows of the powerful night. The short film was screened in Las Naves (2012), L’institut Français de Valencia and was a finalist at the Ourense Art Festival (Spain, 2013). Similar to L’ennéagramme, we can divide the dance video in four

parts. The first three sequences are about the light and the last one is about the night. In the first one, the actress Virginia Morant plays “the light of dawn”, it represents the first rays of dawn light. Our story begins in black and white, a few minutes before sunrise. We are in a deep forest. Night is disappearing step by step, and inviting the sun to start its duty: it floods the forest with colours. In the middle of the forest, we find a static statue. A young girl is immobilized in the black and white atmosphere. Suddenly, the first Sunray “paints” her face and body. The girl begins to move slowly. When she starts to walk, she colours everything around her; trees, rocks, etc. Step by step, the whole forest transforms into colour. The original music, created by the Spanish composer José Antonio Esteban, invites us to permeate into the sequence. The following sequences two and three are interpreted by the actresses Lorena Beferrull and Rachel Merino. The first one plays “the light of noon”. It’s meaning is the strongest light by the sun. She is dressed with a gold-coloured Tres llums © 2012. All rights reserved

dress. In the meantime the sun is splendid. During the third sequence Rachel Merino interprets “the light of dusk”. We see the last rays of sunshine before the night falls. In this case, the choreographer Toledo creates a sensual dance, performed on the top of a mountain. Merino gives way to the night. Rubén Belles plays the night through the powerful shadows and dances with the moon light. The night has come. Finally, after the night’s dance, we see again “the light of dawn”, awakening the next morning. The day-night circle just starts again. Play video dance Unlisted video

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Technical crew

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L’ennéagramme Award 2011: International Certamen Jove Valencia Crea Screenings 2011: The Loop Festival (Barcelona, Spain) Sala de Arte Palacio de Pronillo (Santander, Spain) I Festival de Video creaciones (Algemesí, Spain) The Scientist Video Arte, (Ferrara, Italy) Óptica Festival Internacional de Video Arte en Gijón, (Spain) Óptica Festival Internacional Audiovisual en el Archivo Biblioteca Nacionales de Sucre (Bolivia) Galería de Arte Kiosko de Santa Cruz (Bolivia) IV Festival Internacional de Video Arte en Camagüey (Cuba) Director, screenplayer and producer: Jonathan Bellés Art director and producer: Beatriz Heredia Choreography and Scenography: Sheila Toledo Original music: Raquel Heredia Violinist: Miguel Ángel Navarro Sound design: Alberto Martínez and Diego Porto Camera: Marc Gonzálo, Beatriz Heredia and Jonathan Bellés Director of photography: Jonathan Bellés Costumes: Mª Ángeles García and Josefa María Perea Script-girl: Carla Melendre Edition and Postproduction: Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia

Finalist: Festival de Artes Plásticas de Ourense (Galícia, Spain) Cast: Virginia Morant, Lorena Beferull, Rachel Merino and Rubén Bellés Choreography by Sheila Toledo Cinematography and direction by Jonathan Bellés Art direction by Beatriz Heredia Written by Rubén Bellés and Jonathan Bellés Original music: José Antonio Esteban Makeup and hair design by Amanda Fernández Costumes design Beatriz Heredia and Rubén Bellés Costumes by María Ángeles García Production and Executive production by Jonathan Bellés and Beatriz Heredia Production design by Sandra Martorell Sponsors: LAS NAVES, centro de creación contemporánea and Valencia Crea Collaborators: Ajuntament de València

Sponsors: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, facultad de Bellas Artes San Carlos and Máster en Producción Artística.