Sonoma

La Veronal

April 1 – 2, 2023

Running time 75’

Led by visionary choreographer Marcos Morau, celebrated Spanish company La Veronal returns to FOG with a show inspired by the works and life of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, master of surrealist cinema. In a world in which everything loses meaning, a group of women seek an escape in pure irrationality and instinct, abandoning their bodies in free fall amid surreal and dreamlike scenarios. Playing with symbols from folklore, religion, cinema and art history – in a performance with movements of astonishing energy and hypnotic beauty – the corporeality of the dancers on stage becomes the channel for a rebellious primitive scream, in a journey between dream and fiction, between the human and the extraordinary. A masterful performance.

Founded in 2005 by Marcos Morau, La Veronal is a company formed by artists from a range of disciplines, including dance, film, photography and literature. Marcos Morau studied choreography at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, the Conservatorio Superior de Danza in Valencia and the Movement Research in New York. He has been awarded the National Dance Award 2013, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
La Veronal’s work has been presented in festivals and theatres worldwide, including: Théâtre national de Chaillot (Paris), Venice Biennale, Oslo Opera, Julidans Amsterdam, Tanz im August (Berlin), Roma Europa Festival, SIDance Festival Seoul, Sadler’s Wells (London), Internationale Tanzmesse (Düsseldorf). Marcos Morau won the Danza&Danza 2022 Award for best choreographer.

...more

Read the programme

Info

The performance displays strobe lights, not suitable for photosensitive audiences
Performance with surtitles in Italian and English

Credits

idea, artistic direction: Marcos Morau
choreography: Marcos Morau (in collaboration with the dancers)
dancers: Alba Barral, Angela Boix, Julia Cambra, Laia Duran, Anna Hierro, Ariadna Montfort, Núria Navarra, Lorena Nogal, Marina Rodríguez
text: El Conde de Torrefiel, La Tristura, Carmina S. Belda
répétiteurs: Estela Merlos, Alba Barral
artistic and dramaturgical advice: Roberto Fratini
vocal assistant: Mònica Almirall
technical direction, lighting design: Bernat Jansà
stage manager, props, special effects: David Pascual
sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
voice: María Pardo
set design: Bernat Jansà, David Pascual
costume design: Silvia Delagneau
dressmaking: Ma Carmen Soriano
millinery: Nina Pawlowsky
masks: Juan Serrano (Gadget Efectos Especiales)
giant maker: Martí Doy
props: Mirko Zeni
production, logistics: Cristina Goñi Adot
production direction: Juan Manuel Gil Galindo
coproduction: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona (Institut de Cultura Ajuntament de Barcelona), Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Theater Freiburg, Centro de Cultura Conde Duque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta, Hessisches Staatsballett (in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main)
in collaboration with: Graner (Fàbriques de Creació), Teatre L’Artesà
with the support of: INAEM, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte de España, ICEC, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
beneficiary project of: PYRENART cross-border cooperation project, within the framework of the Interreg VA program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA 2014-2020 – European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

With the support of Instituto Cervantes Milán