Cris Blanco
In 2018, someone lied to me spectacularly, and ever since then I have been both horrified and fascinated by lies. I have always been interested in the line between reality and fiction, but for the last few years… wait… did that happen to me, or to someone else?
It happened a long time ago; I can’t remember it clearly anymore...
Suddenly, these lines begin to blur. A thick fog starts to cover them, and only a few words remain visible...
Lie... line... wait...
You have to wave the smoke away with your hand to keep reading this synopsis. It seems to work, because you can make out the following sentences:
Did it happen to me?
Wasn’t it that short-sighted actress who told me?
The words fade back into the white background. They’re far too italicized, on the verge of collapsing sideways... Between that and the fog, it’s becoming impossible to read the synopsis properly.
What is this play about? you wonder.
With considerable effort, you manage to decipher a few more words and phrases:
“...deep mistrust...”
“...it’s best not to step into that area of the stage...”
“...I can’t see very well...”
“...it’s easier to imagine the end of the world...”
As you puzzle over these fragments, something seems to be crawling behind you!
You turn around, but there’s nothing there.
You look back at the text and...
Wait a minute...
How do I know all this?
In fact, who am I?
Who is writing this text?
Have you assumed that I am Cris Blanco, the author of Almost No Truth?
Perhaps appearances are not to be trusted.
Supernova
Cuqui Jerez
Supernova is a stellar explosion. The explosion of a star that launches all its parts into infinity. It is a dissemination, a disintegration, a dissolution of form in space-time. What was once a star is now all over the place, occupying a larger space. It's form no longer exists, it's form is now other. Unrecognisable, unfathomable and incomprehensible.
Supernova is the third part of a trilogy. The prequel to the prequel. The world before the world before. It is an explosion. It is a solo. A superstar. A body. Oscar's body on the top of a pair of roller skates. Mutating. Vibrating. It vibrates physically, but it also vibrates in its relationship with space, with few objects. It is an autonomous body that escapes productivity and moves through space trying to understand itself as part of an assembly of micro-forces. It enters a tunnel of experience where it allows itself to be affected by everything it finds, everything it observes, everything it hears, everything it feels. It is the fact of the embodied experience that is learned and understood in its own development. Furthermore, this body is a body that is being transformed and changed. It is a bit like a super pop star. It has extensions on its feet in the form of skates that allow it to move through space as if it were a force, somehow avoiding any approach to a movement that is too human.
Mágica y Elástica
Cuqui Jerez
A performative project by Cuqui Jerez in collaboration with Óscar Bueno who wrote the music of the piece. The creation is also a collaboration with Javi Cruz (visual and performance artist), Cecile Brousse (dancer and choreographer), Anto Rodríguez (singer and performance artist), Louana Gentner (visual artist and performer) and Gilles Gentner (light designer). The piece was premiered in February 2022 in Conde Duque, Madrid.
Mágica y Elástica is a musical, or a deconstructed musical, or an anti-musical that explores how sound, movement and image work together. These elements allow us to perceive what we cannot speak about, they allow us to glimpse what language cannot grasp, theylead us to the eternal unknown, the underground of language and the moment in which experience explodes into emotion. To dig into the relationships between music, choreography, image and narrative, we manipulate, deconstruct and knead the conventions of the musical as a genre, which offers us a working field where narrative could start from an image, choreography from music, music from narrative, choreography from image, image from music, etc. being interdependent on each other and with no hierarchies between them. They shape each other, creating a multilayered, mixed, amorphous musical body.
Las Ultracosas
Cuqui Jerez
Las Ultracosas is a project that circulates through choreography, theory, the objectual, the scenographic, the pictorial, the visual, conceived by Cuqui Jerez and created in collaboration with seven artists from different disciplines: Óscar Bueno (performer and musician), Cécile Brousse (dancer, performer and choreographer), Javi Cruz (visual artist and performer), Anto Rodríguez (performer and singer), Gilles Gentner (light designer), Jorge Salcedo (set designer) and Louana Gentner (visual artist and performer).
In the work of Cuqui Jerez there has always been an interest for the objectual. At first it was formalized by understanding objects as signs in relation to language, considering its meaning and following it, denying it or even misrepresenting it. During the research process of The Dream Project (2013/2016) a fascination with the materiality of things begins to emerge and she starts paying special attention to how matter behaves by observing its qualities: its weight, its texture or its way of falling and crawling when it is activated by a body. After pieces like Crocodiles and Alligators (2012), Unos Pasodobles (2013), The Lake (2015) and The Phenomenon of the Fictitious Forces (2016), amongst others, her work became more contemplative, more oriented towards the search for a non-conceptualised perception, exploring open dramaturgies and considering more and more the visual dimension of experience.
The Stain
María Jerez
The Stain is a shared knowledge space where Maria Jerez has worked with a carpenter, a baker, a painter, a composer and a light designer. A space where the firm classifications of Modernity, that tend to separate knowledge in segregated fields, disappear. An unstable space where entities of different natures coexist and co- evolve in a choreography of constant encounters with otherness.The construction of this unstable choreography, focuses on the idea of dissemination, colonization, invasion, co- evolution and coexistence as a framework of thought from which to relate "bodies" or fragments of “bodies" that are not meant to be together. Understanding "bodies" as objects, people, materials, texts, sounds, matters, colors, atmospheres, spaces, time, spectators, performers...
The relationship established between these disparate "bodies" is not based on an "intelligent" relationship that seeks for coherence but on the contrary for the experience of oddkin.
Yabba
María Jerez
Yabba is an encounter with otherness. In this encounter a third thing, a third dimension, something that was not there before, appears, emerges, unintentionally. And when it emerges, it transforms both 1 and 2. Thus producing a displacement, a process of de-identification, a clash with the undefined.
Yabba is a cosmos with its own order, its own rhythm and its own systems in movement that invites you to enter a new logic. A hybrid of different technologies, an amalgam of entities in constant transformation in time, that produce other things in their own coexistence and in the encounter with those who observe them. Things that transpose images, concepts, ideas, emotions that occur precisely at that moment of encounter with otherness.
Grandíssima Iullusione
Cris Blanco
Bad Translation
Cris Blanco
