Type of work:
Basque Dance
Place of show: Indoor
Duration: 60 minutes
Release date: 2022
Photography David HerranzMigration is movement. To move, basically, is to displace a body. In changing place, the whole interior of a body moves with it: dreams, fears, pains and hopes. Migration is movement. And movement agility, limitless. The body needs opening to move: to be open in order to start movement, to be open in order to receive movement.
The company proposes that very same thing with this performance: an exercise in opening up to movement. Open up will, open up curiosity, open up bodies. So one isn’t the highest wall. Express opening up through dance, through stage behaviour. Look at history in order to recall that our pain is also that of the rest. Without denying pain, it is suggested to the audience that they be willing to perform the encounters. What does it mean to be a migrant if not, deep down, to move: to be willing to move a body, and rediscover the body that one is in that new place.
Photography David Herranz
Photography David HerranzDance company based in Donostia, ii was founded in 1997 on the initiative of dancer and choreographer Edu Muruamendiaraz; the fusion of traditional and contemporary dance defines its chorographical work, in which the rhythm and rules of traditional dance are broken, changed, drawn out or deconstructed, and this has become a distinguishing feature of the company.
The company has produced 10 shows through its artistic career: “Sutargi”, “Izena duen guztia omen da”, “Bideak", “10.urteurrena”, “GERNIKA, mihise gaineko dantza”, “Burnia”, “Geltokia”, “Fusioak”, “Maurizia” and ” Aukeraren 20.urte”(2017), a show in which it carries out an emotional trip through its most emblematic choreographies.
The company’s shows have toured the principal theatres and squares of the Basque Country, as well as outside our borders: Castile la Mancha, Murcia, France, Manresa, Manila, Argentina, Uruguay, “Smithsonian Folklife Festival ” in Washington, MTV concert with the group Crystal Fighters, among others.
At the same time it collaborates with renowned artists and groups: The Basque Youth Orchestra, the launch of the record “Garden” by Alos Quartet, representations in the zarzuela “El caserío” in theatres like Campoamor in Oviedo and Teatros el Canal in Madrid, the show “Ereñotzu” by Xabi Solano, with the group Kalakan, among others.
Aukeran began 2019 with a new challenge, a project in collaboration with Euskaltzaindia, the Basque Language Academy, to commemorate the centenary of its creation: “Bih hitza”, euskara batuaren historia dantzatua, a show which takes as its starting point the history of any language but represents the particular history of Standard Basque; language becomes movement, it becomes dance.
Edu Muruamendiaraz
Aitor Narbaiza (Bapo Bapo produkzioak)
