I think I suffer from what in my profession is called nostalgia
Memory Number 7 | Javier Ara Sauco & Enrique López Flores

  Friday, October 17
  7:30 p.m.
  16 and 18
MUN Theater

* Season ticket for Naranjas naranjas limones limones (Lucía Campillo), Me parece que sufro lo que en mi profesión llaman nostalgia (Recuerdo Número 7) and Noces (Led Silhouette and Pamplona Chamber Choir): €39 (no additional discounts)
* Advance sales: buy your tickets with a 15% discount before August 31. Not applicable to season tickets or family packs.

An exploration of the intangible nature of time through memory.

In this proposal, the dancers' bodies face the confusion of embodying what has no body. Based on this paradox, an emotional journey is proposed, a window open to a sensitive universe full of absences and images that have no beginning and no end. The piece has received numerous awards.

ARTISTIC CREDITS
Direction and choreography: Enrique López Flores and Javier Ara Sauco
Performers: Natalia García, Enrique López, and Javier Ara
Music and sound design: Alex Aller and Javier Ara
Lighting design: Javier Ara and Andrés Pérez
Text: Lucía Naval

COMPAÑÍA RECUERDO NÚMERO 7
Alongside their work as performers, Javier Ara Sauco and Enrique López Flores began their career as creators in 2021 under the name Recuerdo número 7. They present projects in different formats, ranging from performance and installation to transdisciplinary artistic projects and educational activities. Their choreographic work is characterized by the use of the dancers' personalities and a delicate and sensitive approach to the body.

In addition to their own productions, they run creative workshops at different companies such as LAB180 in Madrid and are invited to give workshops at the Biennale Danza College in Venice. In 2024, they were selected as choreographers to participate in the Biennale Danza College under the direction of Wayne McGregor, where they shared three months of the creative process with 16 young dancers from around the world and presented the results at the 18th edition of the prestigious Venice dance festival. 

Javier Ara Sauco

In 2013, he began studying dance at the María de Ávila Conservatory of Dance in Madrid. In 2015, he became a member of the young company IT Dansa in Barcelona under the artistic direction of Catherine Allard. From 2018 to 2021, he danced with the Hessisches Staatsballett under the direction of Tim Plegge and Bruno Heynderickx. In 2021, he completed his higher dance studies at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and began working as an independent dancer. In 2022, he participated as a dancer in the Biennale Dance College in Venice under the direction of Wayne McGregor. There he met Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato and since then has been collaborating with them in the KARAS company, dancing in projects around Europe and Japan and also working as a choreographic assistant in creations for other companies. Since 2021, he has been co-directing Recuerdo Número 7 with Enrique López.

ENRIQUE LÓPEZ FLORES

He began studying contemporary dance at the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Barcelona. He later joined IT Dansa, the young dance company of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, under the artistic direction of Catherine Allard, where he danced choreographies by Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Jiři Kylián, Rafael Bonachela, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at the Hessisches Staatsballett under the direction of Tim Plegge and Bruno Heynderickx. Since 2021, she has co-directed Recuerdo Número 7 alongside Javier Ara.