Acto Blanco - Argentina 

 

The storm and the night place the feminine universe in the abyss of the dream, the monstrous and the nature. The contemplation of one’s own body, the beautiful, what perishes and transforms. Acto Blanco brings to the stage an evocation of the spirit of the romantic movement. We consider the romantic movement as a production space of strong aesthetic and aesthetical images over time, both in the general artistic field and in the specific field of dance. The work is put into dialogue with these particular images. Acto Blanco retakes those romantic images and topics. It feeds on this aesthetic ideology to create its own images as a contemporary work. This work allowed us to put the present into a dialogue with the past, starting with linking with emblematic works that emerged from the romantic movement in the arts and especially in dance. This jump to the past, this discontinuity we have approached from the intertextual procedure. From this point of view, we understand that Acto Blanco is constructed as a parodic speech while he tries to pay homage and propose a transforming and renovating look at the dance of nineteenth-century, appealing to make present in the representation the fascination for the afterlife as a place of escape from reality. White Act revisits the figure of women and postulates a type of female figure that only makes sense in relation to that of the nineteenth century, because it evokes, subverts, pays tribute to, questions it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oz3lRL24D8&amp=&feature=youtu.be

 

45 min

16 years old

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Idea and Direction: Laura Figueiras and Carla Rímola

Performers: Barbara Alonso, Liza Rule Larrea, Marisa Villar, Teli Ortiz

Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Johannes Brahms, Amédée Chauson

Original music and sound design: Gastón Taylor

Costumes: Franco Lapietra For Mooo !, Ester Caselli

Hairstyles: Darío Calgagno

Makeup: Sebastián Bielous

Lighting: Matías Sendon

Space: Alicia Leloutre

Photography: Eleazar Cremona, Mariela García

Graphic Design: Mariana Fossatti

Production: Laura Chidichimo