Burgos New York DantzCidanz Producciones

This show brings together three winners of the Burgos & New York International Choreography Competition 2024:

BIO • ME, Tamara Arruti

From the atoms of our bodies to the infinite network of fungi that surround us, life tends to gather in communities so as to survive and prosper in cooperative coexistence. 

A community is a set of unique entities interconnected by countless bridges built on the basis of trust, allowing each of the components to open up and explore themselves, as well as their peers, embraced by a sense of security, benevolence and belonging. 

Resilience, understanding and acceptance are essential. We must accept major changes to attain balance and continue the cycle needed in order to maintain progress. Learning how to welcome newcomers with an open heart and friendly hand, with as much care and comprehension as when we must allow a much-loved companion to depart and continue their own journey beyond yours.

Music: Song Of The Butterfly, Estas Tonne. Performers : Álvaro Múgica, Kevin Dekeyser, Sergio Apapons, Sara Eliro, Tamara Arruti 

Burdens of Being, Alessio Damiani 

Let me be your weight, and you, my shoulder. Burdens of Being is a choreographic analysis of the crushing sensation that a heavy burden exerts on the shoulders, expressed in this piece in corporeal form. This familiar metaphor seems to refer to the burden we impose on those close to us, our fears, the concerns that arise in the life we share with others.

When do we reach the point where being together becomes a burden for someone? At what moment do we temporarily surrender ourselves to be fully there for another, temporarily to carry the weight of another in case of need? 

A constant to-and-fro between two bodies, one orbiting around the other like two planets, exchanging gravitation, mutually attracting one another, their individual orbits inseparably intertwined… The burden becomes a union, always being there for the other, and at the same time trusting that the other will be there for you. 

Music: Salfræoingur Deyr (Remastered) Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ef Ég Hefõi Aldrei... (Remastered) Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performers: Nicola Stasi, Alessio Damiani

Between the Walls, Ildar Tagirov 

Isolation. Isolation of talent. The isolation of talent is voluntary or enforced. The isolation of talent is political or social. Talent has always been attacked and resisted. Maria Callas is a vivid example of the isolation of her own talent at the height of her powers. There is no way of explaining such actions, since each individual chooses how to use their talent. When someone encloses their talent within four walls, it begins to decompose from the inside. Maria Callas enclosed hers after tremendous successes and achievements. 

This dance is a fantasy about an obsessed soul, tired of resisting any circumstance. She spent the final years of her life without leaving her apartment. There was just a small, dim source of light, somewhere in the distant darkness. Don't take people's talent from them! Don't take people's life from them! 

Music: Casta Diva, Vincenzo Bellini. Performer: Ildar Tagirov