Dalet (da)
Daniel Abreu Company

  Saturday, October 7, 7:30 p.m.
 60 min
 €20 and €22
MUN Theater

Going from emptiness to a form without dimensions, changing (place, world). The passage and the path are the starting point for several characters who act and interact in decision-making.
 

Dalet is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet that refers to a door. A door without a lintel that allows one to go through, to pass through, to transit. A journey from emptiness to form without dimensions. Dalet speaks of a journey through the desert, of necessary steps that are taken countless times on the path of evolution.

This symbol, this energy that allows us to change places, is the driving force behind a creation for six dancers and two musicians. The starting point from which several characters begin to make decisions. Figures who, supported by the group, give meaning to a landscape full of symbols related to nature, its conquest, and reinterpretation.

The humility of throwing ourselves to the ground and waiting for the grass to grow on our skin is a recurring image that accompanied the entire process. The surrender of water to its course. And dancing. Dancing knowing that it is the ground that moves and we only react to it through the air.

The work moves from a sustained focus on gesture and dance to a place of reverie and magical representation.
 

ARTISTIC CREDITS
Direction and creation: Daniel Abreu
Assistant director: Mar Rodríguez
Performers: Daniel Abreu, Abián Hernández, Diego Pazo, Mauricio Pérez, Daniel Rodríguez, David Vilarinyo
Musicians: Hugo Portas, Elisa Tejedor
Original music: Hugo Portas, Elisa Tejedor
Other music: Alec Roth, David Terranova, David Toop, Forest Swords, John Taverner, Michael Wall, Svarte Greïner, Thomas Köner, Akira Rabelais, Andy Stoot
Lighting: Pedro Yagüe
Set design: Luis Crespo
Projection and technical coordination: David Benito
Tailoring workshop: Gabriel Besa
Fantasy costume design and production: Esteban Cedrés
Photography: marcosGpunto
Distribution: Elena Santonja

Project carried out with the support of the Madrid City Council's program of grants for creation and mobility and the Community of Madrid's grants for choreographic production.

Collaborators: María Pagés Choreographic Center, Canal Choreographic Center, National Dance Company

Acknowledgements: Ana Cabo, Janet Novás, Jesús Villanueva, Dácil González, María Pagés, Larbi El-Harti, Beatriz Barzamendi, Elena P., Carmen Werner, David Candela, Roberto Torre
 

BIOGRAPHY

DANIEL ABREU
Dancer and choreographer, born on the island of Tenerife, where his curiosity and interest in physical movement and theatrical expression began. During his artistic training, he earned a degree in psychology, which has been very present in his choreographic works through careful poetic symbolism.

As a performer, he has worked with various dance and theater companies and collectives on the national scene. As a creator, he has a long creative career spanning more than sixty productions that have been seen in many countries and have received critical and public acclaim, as well as various awards.

DANIEL ABREU COMPANY
Founded in 2004, the Daniel Abreu Company is a leading dance company on the Spanish national scene. Daniel Abreu's choreographic work is defined by the use of simple interpretive language tools, the strength and personality of the performers, evocative landscapes that give rise to powerful, dreamlike images, and a sensitive soundscape. The highly poetic narrative, a prominent feature in each work, underpins every creation premiered, whether solo or group.

The company's team is made up of dancers with a great vocation for physical vocabulary and communication through the body. To date, they have premiered more than sixty works. They tour regularly throughout Europe, America, and Asia.
 

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