Guest Company La Veronal: Sonoma

"If there is a heaven, it is here and now."
Luis Buñuel

Sonoma is not a word that you will find in a dictionary. However, it contains phonemes from Greek, soma (body) and Latin, sonum (sound): Sound body and body sound. Choreographer Marcos Morau returns to the essential concepts of a piece he created in 2016 for the Ballet de Lorraine: "Le Surréalisme au service de la Révolution" [Surrealism at the service of the Revolution], based on the figure of Luis Buñuel, and falling between medieval Calanda and cosmopolitan Paris, the Jesuit faith and surrealist freedom. That entire microcosm is developed and expanded in “Sonoma”. The piece begins with a scream and ends with a loud racket. In the middle, in a landscape between reality and fiction, a group of women try to free themselves from the bonds of the known, and cross frontiers using their intuition and instinct. When they come together, the inner cry they share is amplified, it grows until overflowing, and they celebrate it with rituals, offerings, hypnotic songs, and dances. They enter an unknown and bewildering state, a state that frees their minds but at the same time reminds them of their human condition. Sonoma is that place where the storm originates, where the drums continue to beat with a force that shakes the earth and opens a deep crack in the ground under our feet.

Choreography: Marcos Morau
Artistic and Dramaturgical Advice: Roberto Fratini
Text: La Tristura, El Conde de Torrefiel, Carmina S. Belda
Sound Design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
Set: David Pascual, Bernat Jansà
Licht Design: Bernat Jansà
Costumes: Silvia Delagneau
Masks: Juan Serrano – Gadget Efectos Especiales

1 hour 15 minutes | no intermission

PREMIERE:
La Veronal, Festival Grec de Barcelona, Barcelona, July 24, 2020

CO-PRODUCTION:
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 Contemporánea CondeDuque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta, Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Sadler’s Wells.
In collaboration with Graner – Fàbriques de Creació and Teatre L’Artesà.
Beneficiary project of the 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 INAEM – Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain and ICEC –Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya

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