Marcelino Pena (Galizia) RUTAS Y DESIERTO Itinerari e deserto

Sunday 30th September – 9.30pm  -  NATIONAL PREMIERE
Teatro Kismet OperA

by  Marcelino Pena
production assistant Belen Duarte

Moving monologue of improvised dance.
The starting point is the intention of representing, through dance, agile and precise traits that a painter is improvising on a blank canvas, his gestures are translated into lines, circles, spirals, dots spots, etc. .. that make up the choreography. Creating directions, tensions, gaps, colors, shadows, the painter, in the privacy of his office, the painter composed the picture that is the expression of those gestures. The attempt is to find a language of movement that allows to translate and represent the artistic expression,  that is dynamic and ecstatic at the same time. The music is the structure on which dance improvisation develops. A bench or a chair on stage: epicenter, focus, pathways and turning points. As an introduction to the work on the body, with colored markers in his hand, the performer “in situ” carries on a white panel  a sketch or monologue, that is preamble to the movements that follow. Improvisation is influenced by several permanent factors, music, public space and time. Factors that are necessary to ensure that each improvisation is unique and spontaneous.

MARCELINO PENA born among the mountains, forests, rivers and bays of Galicia, an autonomous region in the north-west of Spain, into a family of farmers, workers and artisans and assimilates immediately predisposition to physical labor and plastic. In addition to studies of electronic he deepens martial arts (1st Dan Taekwondo) and dance studying at the School of Dance in Lisbon. He worked  with choreographer Francisco Camacho. He returned to Spain in 2004 and with other artists opened the performative center “PlayCulture” , a meeting and experimentation of contemporary art place. In 2008 he worked with the master of mime Nacho Otero to the creation of the show “Erocion inducida.” Since 2010 he lives and works in Belgium as a dancer and sculptor / stone restorer .