Euskaraz irakurri: Eukaliptoak guri buruz esateko dituenak, Durangoko Azokaren Sormen Bekaren lan irabazlean
The short play “Eucalyptus”by the creator from Bermeo Jon Ander Urresti, is the winner of the fifth edition of the Durango Fair Creation Scholarship, which is facing its second day today. This was decided by a jury made up of the actor Oier Guillan, the writer Leire Vargas, the dancer Jon Maya, the director of the San Agustín de Durango cultural center Arantza Arrazola, the cultural programmer from Hendaia Aurelie Pousset and Asun Elorriaga, a member of Gerediaga Elkartea .
Urresti will receive, therefore, the 15,000 euro subsidy granted by Durangoko Azoka and the City Council of the Biscayan town to accompany the process of a cultural work from its beginning to its premiere. This year, the field of creation chosen has been the performing arts, in the same way that in the previous four editions of the Fair they were literature, music, audiovisual and digital projects.
“Using the eucalyptus as a pretext, I wanted to reflect on the management of our lands and our lives”, explained Urresti, grateful, “to sow doubts, since that is the function of art”. “The word ‘eucalyptus’ in Greek means well covered, and our lands have been for the last few years. They have been covered physically and also covered in conflict.”
Jon Ander Urresti
“We haven’t left much room for reflection, but the eucalyptus trees have put our society in front of the mirror,” according to Urresti. They have shown us, according to the Biscayan creator, the consequences of specialization, of the sacralization of profitable decisions and of having closed the doors to diversity.
“The eucalyptus itself is beneficial, both its wood and the medicinal use of its leaves. But there is a relationship between monoculture and totalitarianism. It is about an Australian friend that we have brought from abroad to work for us and whom we have blamed for our miseries”, reflected Urresti.
We will see the result of this work, which will combine “the concretion of theater and the abstraction of dance” at the Durango Fair in 2023, since for the moment it is only “a proposal to develop a process”.
Jon Ander Urresti (Bermeo, 1992) is a graduate of Dantzerti, Euskadi Higher School of Dramatic Art and Dance, and a member of the Horman Poster collective. Currently, he participates in the interpretation of the play “Hondamendia”, produced by Artedrama and Axut.
Source: Eitb
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