PRESENTS
A DANCE-THEATER PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN FROM 2 YEARS OLD COPRODUCTION
A DANCE-THEATER PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN FROM 2 YEARS OLD
WITH THE COLLABORATION
CREATION MONTSE ROIG JOAN CASAS MARINA CARDONA AND THE SUPPORT OF
PERFORMANCE MONTSE ROIG
ORIGINAL MUSIC AIDA OSET Index
THE COMPANY...... 4 CALENDAR ...... 4 REVIEWS...... 5 SHOW PRESENTATION...... 7 ISADORA DUNCAN AS AN INSPIRATION...... 8 DRAMATURGY...... 9 SCENIC SPACE ...... 9 SOUND SPACE ...... 9 COSTUME...... 9 TECHNICAL RIDER...... 10 TEAM & BIOS...... 11
BLINK FLASH LAB ...... 13 Performances Calendar BLINK FLASH DUNCAN
2019 2018 December, 30th: Teatre del Raval - CASTELLÓN November, 24th: Teatro Francisco Rabal - PINTO The Company November, 25th to 28th– SAT! - BARCELONA November, 16th: Teatro Canovas - MALAGA November, 11th: Teatre del Foment - MARTORELL The Blink Flash Company was born on October, 26th: Auditorio Palacios Congresos - JACA November, 9th: Espai La Lira - TREMP 2016 with the aim of introducing Dance October, 20th: Teatro Circo - MURCIA October, 20th: Teatre Orfeu - Festival Cos - REUS and Theater languages to the little ones October, 13th: Auditorio Montserrat Caballé - February,25th; Graner -Fest. Salmón - BARCELONA as a vehicle to express their emotions. MADRID Since its beginnings , BlinkFlash company September, 8th: Auditori Cas Serres - IBIZA is a part of El Mercat de les Flors educa- June, 15th: Sala Central Lechera - CADIZ 2017 Festival Més Petit de Tots: tional program, performing for children, May, 29th & 30th: Teatre Conservatori – MANRESA November, 26th: Teatre de l’Aurora - IGUALADA teachers and families at kindergartens . April, 9th: Teatre Municipal - BERGA Their first theater show "Blink Flash November, 19th - Teatre Magatzem - TARRAGONA April, 1st to 7th : Teatre La Sala - SABADELL Duncan" premiered at Mercat de les Flors November, 18th - Teatre LaSala - SABADELL March, 29th - CCN - Festival Petits et Grands - in the Festival "El Més Petit de Tots" (Bar- NANTES (France) celona, November 2017). Noviembre, 12th, 13th, 14th : Mercat de Les Flors February, 10th- Convent de Les Arts - ALCOVER (PREMIERE) January, 13th- Teatre Foment - JUNEDA
January, 2nd, 3rd, 4th: Caixa Forum - BARCELONA
4 Reviews
“AT THE SERVICE OF CHILDREN SURPRISE” JORDI BORDES REVIEW FROM RECOMANA.CAT (15.11.2017)
Montse Roig and Joan Casas have managed to make emerge a fragile and tender world from the choreographer´s visits to the nursery schools. She has researched, played and dared to transform into one more child in the classroom. With a music that perfectly complements a situation, circumstantially (the piece evolves from each surprise that appears in the scenic space), small games are very effective with minimal elements. …/… the connection with the scoundrel is continuous because images are suggestive and magical and because the look is always towards the children. The work ends with a party, distributing colored hearts and throwing them on the fly as if they were tender autumn leaves. A simple but effective game, suggestive, that keeps the curiosity and that it redeems when finally it is acceded to the scene. And yes, it is also danced on the sits, innocently, especially as a result of the rain of hearts, in line with the artist.
LINK TO THE WHOLE ARTICLE = http://recomana.cat/CRITICA/3313/3/Blink%20flash%20duncan/JordiBordes#
“DISCOVERING!” NÚRIA CAÑAMARES REVIEW FROM RECOMANA.CAT (24.11.2017)
The show is carefully designed to seduce the audience between 2 and 5 years old and, at the same time, provide a wonderful time for adults who have taken them to the theater. It is about living a shared experience, participating together and in society in an artistic act full of emotion that, although perhaps it is not "the first time", gets very close to it. …/… Now a moon appears, there is a rain of stars or clouds flying. Now they enter into a cave accom- panied by the echo or see how the dancer lives in a music box . With images, lights and melo- dies, they give them a continuity of pure, soft, beautiful, soft scenes, where children, through the eyes, body and soul of the protagonist, awaken their senses and, above all, their emotions and bond with the performing arts. Barefoot, curious, playful and dressed in white with a boot that reminds the baby diaper, the analogy is obvious. She is the one who moves to the scene between a suggestive stage scene, but everyone can see themselves experimenting in their place. Barefoot, curious, playful and dressed in white with a boot that reminds the baby diaper, the analogy is obvious. She is the one who moves to the scene between a suggestive stage scene, but everyone can see themselves experimenting in their place. The little ones react openly to the stimuli and let out cries of joy or babbles that confirm that they are participants in the discovery. And the most fundamental: they enjoy it. In general, the show contains the communication with the public in the role of active receptors except for two moments when the interaction is intentionally explicit and, despite the remarkable change of registration, it occurs naturally. A controlled distension that children receive with fun and that has just come close to this dream universe that will finally be displayed in the real world in an invitation to the game and to the party that rounds the experience.
LINK TO THE WHOLE ARTICLE = http://www.recomana.cat/CRITICA/3313/31/Blink%20flash%20duncan/N%C3%BAriaCa%C3%B1amares
5 INTERVIEW WITH NÚRIA PARERA - EL CULTURISTA (23.10.2017)
The company Blink Flash was born with the aim of bringing the world of dance and theater closer to the youngest. This year they are premiered at the "El Petit Petit de Tots" festival with a show that is based on the intense life of Isadora Duncan. Montse Roig (creator and interpreter), Marina Cardona (choreog- rapher) and Joan Casas (playwright) have experimented with children of twelve kindergartens before giving the jump on stage, and the result is a small jewel that explores the most basic emotions of being human ... / ...
HOW DOES A BIOGRAPHY BECOME A SHOW FOR YOUNG CHILDREN? Joan: We transformed the biography of Isadora into an emotional biography. We made a compilation of the different emotions that he lived and then we made a choice. The background are basic emotions that everyone lives at one time or another. For this reason it is easy to identify with it. Montse: Yes, we talk about fear, discomfort, anger, impost, rejection, loss of children, sadness ... We explain of Isadora´s life through the emotions she lived. And we related each of them it to an object and music. Music helps me to create the movement, and objects help children, since they need something palpable they can touch. Joan: We also play with the colours. Montse begins dressed in white and stains the costume as she lives the different situations , it is a very visual game that gets the audience.
HAVE YOU DONE A PREVIOUS RESEARCH WORK THAT HAS BEEN USEFUL TO CREATE THE SHOW Marina: yes, from the Mercat de Les Flors, laboratories are made in the nurseries to work emotions through theater and dance. We go to the classrooms and do exercises to educate the children in this field and also to give creative tools to educators. The second part of the laboratory is to bring these children to the theater, to see the work.
HOW DO CHILDREN REACT IN THE CLASSROOM? Marina: things happen like an educator asks you, uncertain: "can I take off my shoes?" We respond of course! that they are to feel free to do whatever they feel, as if they want to turn or jump. Montse: with the Mercat de Les Flors educational projec, we give tools to educators so that they can connect with children from the body and not just through words. For example, if you want them to roll on the floor, it is best to do it than you not moving saying "now roll on the ground." Marina: exactly, emotions are experienced physically and more so at early ages. Non-verbal communication is very important. Joan: from a certain age, 5 or 6 years old, emotions are crystallized and the child starts repeating the patterns it has learnt. The work that can be done at this early ages is very profound. They are very important years in the development of a person.
AND TO FINISH, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE KIDS? Montse: a skater or a judge. Marina: a vet or a dancer. Joan: a space ship mechanic, I imagined myself as some mechanic-astronaut that fixed spaceships.
LINK TO THE WHOLE ARTICLE = http://elculturista.cat/entrada-culturista/blink-flash/
6 Introduction
IN BLINK FLASH DUNCAN WE DISCOVER THE INICIATIC JOURNEY OF ISA, BASED ON ISADORA DUNCAN’S EMOTIONAL BIOGRAPHY. THIS SHOW IS AN ARTISTIC PROPOSAL FOR THE LITTLE ONES THAT AIMS TO BRING THE AWAKANING OF DANCE AS A PATH TO COMMUNICATE AND BECOME MORE CONSCIOUS OF THEIR OWN (AND OTHERS) EMOTIONS.
Synopsis
One night, while everybody is sleeping… a disenchanted girl, a bit sad, a bit bored, arrives at a beach. Suddenly, her empty world starts to fill with magic: she discovers her own creativity. Every corner of the beach keeps an object that starts a new world with its own colour, music and expe- rience. Isa is a brave girl and dares to play. The world has changed and it is a place full of possibilities. We’ll tell you a secret; these objects keep Isadora’s Duncan vital experiences. The kids won’t see her, neither will we, however she will give us a path to freedom, towards the discovery of our own and unique movement, towards creativity, towards dreams, joy, happiness and hope.
VIDEO TEASER = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mv3oAORLt8
DURATION
35 minutes (at the end of the show, children are invited to explore on the stage)
SPACE
6 x 7 meters (white linoleum on the ground)
COMPANY
1 Dancer 1 Technician 1 Production assistant
BUILD UP
6 hours
FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE TECHNICAL RIDER - P. 10
7 Isadora Duncan as an inspiration for movement research
Isadora Duncan, an essential figure in contemporary dance, was a unique character that inspired many artists of her own time and later generations. She was a woman with the imperative need to create the life that she imagined and transform into dance everything she captured in the world.
She created her own language, avoiding conventionalisms of her era. Only guided by the shade of her own gaze, she expressed with her body what was passing through her heart and entrails, without convention. All these factors led to a life full of ups and downs and really difficult episodes. Yet the same factors gave her a passion for a life unique in history and a vision of the world never seen before. This deep vitality of facing life is the point that we would like to share with children, her hunger for life and her energetic and positive attitude towards it.
With Blink Flash Duncan, we have tried to capture this existentially expressionist world, her energetic attitude, creativity and vital emo- tion that made her bet very strongly for any project and experience.
Isadora Duncan´s inspirations are nature and soul, since she conceives of Dance as the soul move- ment embodied and expressed by the human being.
She was inspired by nature both in person and through paintings and sculptures: landscapes, flowers, the sea, the human body.... Those referring to the ancient world of Greece and therefore also to the Renaissance of the s. XVI are constant, in fact many of his works were represented in tunic and sandals or barefoot. In some epochs its dances resembled dances of Nymphs with slight movements, undulating and with jumps, or in other times to dances of mermaids or witches with more dramatic, sensual and expressive movements.
In her technique, of which she taught classes, the solar plexus is concept as the centre of move- ment. It says that this is the place where the soul resides and that in every Dance the opening and closing of the plexus is a necessary action towards the expression of this soul motor from which it always leaves to dance. With these psychic, aesthetic and technical referents we will address a search for movement in which we humbly try to evoke Duncan and bring it to the scene.
Dance has to be an extension of the body's natural movements ... Dance puts the individual in harmonic communication with the intrinsic rhythm of nature and celestial bodies Isadora Duncan
8 Dramaturgy
When we see Isa playing on the beach, we are contemplating the emotional biography of Isadora Duncan. All the worlds that Isa enters are analogous to their vital experiences. The dramaturgi- cal process of the piece consisted of extracting a key emotion from each experience of Isado- ra Duncan and then creating a scene. From there, we have reinforced the character of emotion with its corresponding colour that envelops the scene, the hue of movement, and an element that invites Isa to live his own experience with the same emotion that Isadora Duncan.
Scenic space, Lighting & Video
The scenic space is coloured in tune with the emotional journey of Isa, to give more plasticity and texture to each emotion that makes it visible for children. Likewise, dreamlike spaces arise analogous to the locations where Isadora created the essence to make dance evolve. At the bottom of the stage, a starry sky is projected on the length. In this sky, we find the Moon, repre- senting the plastic recreation of emotions. The moon is acquiring the colours of the scenes, integrating the emotional trip of Isa.
Sound space
The original music is composed entirely of Aida Oset except "the electro-swing", composed by Toti Arimany, who also signs the sound space together with the Aida. Each song has been creat- ed based on the emotion and color that was transmited to each scene, but also about what chapter of the life of Isadora Duncan we were talking about. It has been a process of continu- ous creation where music was fed with dance and vice versa and where joint improvisation has played an important role.
Costume
The girl is dressed in a white dress that is colouring after each scene, so that children understand in a clear way the evolution of the girl after each scene. The colouring of the dress also wants to show the maturity of the consciousness acquired after experience.
9 Technical Rider Lighting Material - provided by the theater This document is for optimal conditions. It could be adapted 2X PAR64 CP60 1KW according to the characteristics of the theatre. 20 X PAR64 CP62 1KW Please contact with us if you have any questions. 14 X PROFILES ETC S4 ZOOM 25º-50º 750W. OR SIMILAR 11 X PC ROBERT JULIAT HPC310 1 KW. OR SIMILAR 6 X BOOM SUPPORTS 13 X REGULATED LINES ON THE STAGE Company 1 X DIRECT LINE (220V.) ON THE STAGE 1 DANCER 48 X DIMMER CHANNELS 1 TECHNICIAN DMX CONNEXION ON THE STAGE 1 PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Lighting Material - provided by the company Necessary Technical Assistance MACHINERY: 2 X SET UP 1 X CABLE FOR THE LAMP LIGHTS: 2 X SET UP/ 1 X SHOW 1 X BLUE LAMP SO/VÍDEO: 1 X SET UP/ 1 X SHOW 1 X STAGE LIGHTS 3 X LEDS STRIPS RGB 14W/M Approximate set up time: 6 hours 3 X POWER SUPPLY LED 3 X INTERFACE DMX CABLES DMX XLR 3 PINS FILTERS Stage CONTROL TABLE
Equipment to be provided by the theater: 6X7M DANCE FLOOR: WHITE LINOLEUM 2.5 MM THICK 6M METAL BAR FIT TO HANG THE FABRIC SCREEN Sound ROPES TO HANG THE SCREEN
P.A SYSTEM : L/ R (with processors system, digital stages, etc.) Equipment provided by the company: MOSQUITO NET (6 X 4M) 3 TRANSPARENTS SKYLIGHTS (+ 2 BASES). DIAMETER: 120, 70, 70 cm SUBWOOFERS SYSTEM 10 PIECES OF WOOD (max. 140 x 140 cm) MONITORS “Side Fill”: 2X Vídeo 1 DELAY SYSTEM 1 VIDEO-PROJECTOR (MINI. 5.200 LUMENS) WITH WIDE ANGLE OPTIC 0.8 1 MIXER CABLES HDMI O VGA (CONNECTED TO TECHNICAL CABIN)
10 CREATION & PERFORMANCE MONTSE ROIG Team & Bios CHOREOGRAPHY MARINA CARDONA & MONTSE ROIG DRAMATURGY JOAN CASAS ORIGINAL MUSIC AIDA OSET SOUND SPACE AIDA OSET & TOTI ARIMANY SCENOGRAPHY & ACCESSORIES MARIA ALEJANDRE & QUICO SÀNCHEZ LIGHTING MARC LLEIXA VIDEO PROJECTION SÍLVIA ISACH COSTUME MIRANDA MÉNDEZ PRODUCTION CAROLINE GIFFARD
MONTSE ROIG JOAN CASAS RIUS
Montse Roig, mover graduated in choreography at AHK Amterdam Hoges- Actor, director and playwright, he studies theater at the Col·legi del Teatre chool voor the kunsten, Netherlands. She specializes in Physical Theater in Barcelona and the di Fazzio method in Rome, a method that fuses the next to the choreographer Mercedes Boronat, with whom she works for Strasberg technique and Zen. As a multidisciplinary artist, during his 15 seven years. Assists and dances for choreographers such as Luca Silvestri- years of career, he has researched different languages Such as the natural- ni, in Cruïlles, Mercat de les Flors 2011 or Ignacio Achurra, La ira de los ist theater, the theater forum, the musical, the mime, the clown, the theater peces, Fira Tàrrega 2014 and Santiago a Mil 2016. She develops her own of objects, storytelling, dance, dance-theater, theater of shadows or perfor- vocabulary in collaboration with other artists coming from video-dance, mance. Stepping in as many rooms as the Teatre Lliure, the Liceu or Arriaga contemporary dance, flamenco and theater. She enters the world of children theater Bilbao, alternative theater rooms and street arts festivals through- with the performance Happy Ha Ha, one year at Teatre Gaudí in Barcelona. out Europe. During his career he has collaborated with artists such as; Now is part of the educational project Meva Teva from Mercat de les Flors Eleonora Herder, Nuria Espert, Daniel Zippi, Moises Maicas, Carol Lopez, as a dancer. She is also performing at Caixa Fòrum Museum in Barcelona, Diego Murciano, Willy Decker, Renato Palumbo, Mario Gas, Jaume Llauradó discovering Paintings and installation work to children. and Jordi Granell among others.
MARINA CARDONA
Graduated in Dance in the year 2000 in the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she receives training in Classic Ballet and in Contemporary Dance. During the following years, she worked in Germany to the Braunsweig Staatstheater under the direction of Pierre Wyss and the Kassel Staatstheater under Henning Paar. These directors used the Ballet as a base technique for the company and their productions were often theatrical. He worked for the Cirque du Soleil for one year, under the ever-loving gaze of Franco Dragone, together with 50 other dancers he created the show A New Day, a concert-show for Celine Dion of an exqui- site artistic level. She returns to Barcelona from the hand of Thomas Noone and later Juan Carlos García de Lanònima Imperial. The last major adven- ture abroad was in Australia with Liz Lea Dance, who worked the Contem- porary Dance together with the Classical Dance India. Since then, she has established itself in Barcelona and works mainly with the Filles Föllen and makes occasional collaborations with artists such as Bebeto Cidra, Marcellí Antúnez etc.
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Actress and singer, graduated in the Studio Nancy Tuñón and AULA (Con- Video artist. In 2015, she was awarded the Second Berlin Jury Prize at the servatory of modern music and jazz of the Liceu). In 2017 she is certified as Berlin Festival of Light, in 2014 she obtained the Special Jury Mention for Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher. As a singer and composer, she would the mapping at Barcelona VisualSound and she was selected as a finalist at highlight her current NUU electronic pop group, which has just released its the International Mapping Festival of Girona, in 2012 he won the First Prize first album, GLOOM (Cydonia Records, 2017). She has also composed music of the Battle VJ of the Toulouse Novel Festival. for various shorts films, theater shows or multidisciplinary and creation pieces such as Je-me.app (Festival Fringe Madrid 2014), La Red (Sprech- http://sinoca.cat/ werk Theater, Hamburg 2015) or RESET (from the dance company Erre que Erre, spectacle premiered at the Mercat de les Flors in the Sónar Festival + D 2016). CAROLINE GIFFARD http://www.aidaoset.com/ She holds a degree in Management (EM Grenoble, 2004) and holds a Masters in Critical Theory (MACBA, Independent Studies Program, Barcelo- TOTI ARIMANY na, 2010). She works for 5 years in a company of the sector of the school theater (Eina d'Escola), taking the production and distribution of shows in Producer, sound technician and musician. He began his professional career Spain and France. He then collaborates with several companies in Catalo- in 1997 with the Dusminguet music group and, throughout these years, he nia (The Performers Inc., Catacrac...) and France (Accidental Company). At has been part of musical projects such as Brazuca Matraca, La Troba the same time, she expands her trainning in dance-theater and perfor- Kung-Fú or Txerramequ Tiquis Miquis. As a freelance producer and techni- mance and participates in several projects with: Mercedes Boronat (Barce- cian he has worked with artists such as Manu Chao, Macaco, Ojos de Brujo, lona), Tamara Cubas (Uruguay), Action Festival (Barcelona), Marabal Maria Rodés or Cabo San Roque among others. (Barcelona), Álvaro Frutos (Madrid), Collectif La Horde France), etc.
MARC LLEIXA
Head of lighting for Teatre Lliure (Barcelona) http://www.marclleixa.com/
MARIA ALEJANDRE
After working professionally for more than a decade in architecture compa- nies, he decided to expand her training in Scenography at the Massana School and the “Institut del Teatre” in Barcelona. She develops a conceptual look where movement, plasticity and technique play a great role. She has worked in various theatrical and audiovisual productions of Cia Obskené, Colectivo Big Bouncers, A Contracorriente Films, Life & pictures, MuchoBue- noFilms, OvideoTv, among others. http://mariaalejandre.blogspot.com.es/
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A danced and participative workshop
The aim of this activity is to offer an artistic experience to the little ones and bring tools for children´s physical and emotional expression to educators or families
LENGHT
25 minuts
RECOMMENDED AGE GAP
0 a 3 years old
BLINKFLASH LAB SESSIONS CAN BE DONE:
- In a classroom with a group of 25-30 kids (max) + 3 educators (min) - In a different space (with day light) with children and families.
Girls and boys share the creative space with the dancer; together they discover hidden objects that trigger movement and rhythm. Educators and/or parents also participate in the experi- ence, so the child feels safe to participate and, at the same time, adults learn about the tools to communicate with each other through dance, rhythm and games.
This activity has been done in more than 20 kindergarten since 2017 in Barcelona, inside the educational program “Body and movement” from El Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona).
This experience, which has provided a direct relationship with children and educators, has been very valuable at the time to create the show BLINK FLASH DUNCAN.
VIDEO TEASER = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MiURUwxBAk
https://www.you- tube.com/watch?v=3Mi URUwxBAk
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