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.