CUQUI JEREZ

Sugar Island is a place. An island, a living organism, a dance. Sugar Island is on the other side. Far away. Deep down. Sugar Island is breaking apart. From the inside out. Concentrated. Sugar Island is earth, muscle, ligament, curtain, light. It is classical, artificial, pop, strange. Sugar Island is not Agon. Sugar Island is Brousse. A confusing sensation of being too awake. Sugar Island is located on Lake Erie, Ohio.

After working as a dancer and performer with different choreographers in Europe in the 1990s, Cuqui Jerez started to develop her own choreographic work in 2001. Since then, she has created pieces that have been performed at many festivals, theatres and museums in Europe, USA and Latin America. Her pieces do not necessarily align with the idea of a “choreography”, although Cuqui Jerez believes that choreographic creation draws from components of different disciplines.

Concept and direction Cuqui Jerez / Performer Cécile Brousse / Walk-on Louana Gentner / Music and sound composition Óscar Bueno / Lighting design Gilles Gentner / Painting Javi Cruz / Graphic design Louana Gentner / Costume collaboration and production Anto Rodríguez and The Costume Studio – Tania Bakunova
Produced by Cuqui Jerez and Dorothy Michaels – Office for Production and Artistic Research, Madrid. Co-productions: Kampnagel International Summer Festival, Hamburg; Europalia Spain; Grants for Creation and Mobility from the Madrid City Council. With the support of: Le Dancing – National Choreographic Development Center, Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté; Buda Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk; National Dance Company, Madrid; Canal Choreographic Center, Madrid; Piedralaves City Council; Miguel Jerez