CUQUI JEREZ

Mágica y Elástica is presented as a deconstructed musical that explores how sound, movement and image work together; these elements allow us to perceive what we cannot talk about, glimpse what language cannot capture, and take us to a space of mystery in the performance’s subsoil, at the precise time when experience becomes emotion. The deconstruction of the musical genre offers a field of work where narrative can emerge from an image, choreography from a piece of music, music from narrative, choreography from image, image from music, and so on, without any hierarchy between them, working together to generate the score that makes up the piece: an amorphous, intermixed, multilayer musical body.

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: Since my early pieces, my work has been a tool for understanding the performative act. In the course of my career, I have worked with performances, dance pieces, theatrical pieces, videos, texts, photographs, objects, events and publications. Viewed under different lights, I consider all these activities to be choreographies. My approach to all my works is choreographic, so basically I think of myself as a choreographer.

Project Cuqui Jerez / In collaboration with Óscar Bueno / Concept and direction Cuqui Jerez / Created in collaboration with Anto Rodríguez, Cécile Brousse, Javi Cruz, Louana Gentner and Gilles Gentner / Musical composition Óscar Bueno in collaboration with Cuqui Jerez, Anto Rodríguez, Cécile Brousse, Javi Cruz, Louana Gentner / Lighting design and technical direction Gilles Gentner / Sound technician Oscar Villegas / Production assistant Nicole Sazo / Production Dorothy Michaels – Oficina de Investigación y producción artística
Coproduction Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Madrid; Kaaitheatre, Brussel·les; Budakunstencentrum, Kortrijk / With the support Graner fàbrica de creació and La Caldera centre de creació / Acknowledgments María Jurado, Julia Rubíes, Miguel Jerez, Beatriz Quintana, Maral Kekejian, Julia López Varela, Andrea Rodrigo, María Jerez, David Fernández

Introduction session to the show ‘ONE HOUR BEFORE’ the function: Saturday 25 February

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