Only for three days, at the company’s theater in Quito, this creation by the French choreographer Alexis Jestin will be seen.
The National Dance Company (CND) premieres the play Foreign Quest It is Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 December, at 7:00 p.m., at the Theater of Contemporary Art, in Quito (Avenida Río Coca E10-59 and Paris).
The title refers to the incessant movement of human beings across borders and to life in social exclusion, and is part of the project Look What The Workd Did To Us (Look what the world did to us), that the French choreographer and artistic director Alexis Jestin It has been in Europe and Asia since 2019, and now it is arriving in Ecuador.
Jestin explains that he has been working on this work with the CND dancers for four weeks, determined to premiere it around the December 18, the date on which the United Nations commemorates International Migrants Day.
“I am lucky to create this work for 16 CND dancers. It was a very interesting human and artistic experience for me. The composer of the soundtrack is Dilemma, who resides in Belgium, and the technical and administrative team of the Ecuadorian company also intervenes ”.
In each country and with each group, the project has its own research and takes on local characteristics. Foreign Quest It has the movements, colors, dramaturgy and emotions worked in interaction with the CND dancers.
“The movement comes from everyday life, we can observe it every day on the street, on the corners, in the markets. We can also go looking in our memories. And we can fictionalize the movement. That is our search: how to bring observation and memory to the study, to create a new door of perceptions of our own movement ”.
Jestin travels with his own company, Underdog Project. “I have been invited to give labs and creation classes. In France I worked with the Montreuil Movement Theater, with the Warsaw Dance Department, in Poland, at the RED Residence in Norway, and with Villa Saigon, in Vietnam.
Admission to the event is free until full capacity is reached (74 people), with biosecurity measures. (AND)
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