Synopsis

In order to say what "El Cielo" is not, we'll call it a fantasy. It doesn't describe events, or even the stirrings of the soul. But impressions, visions. Audible and tangible deeds. From the asceticism of "Means," a mere contemplation of nature, that is to say, of man, of the physiognomy of his sound organ.

Up to the extasis of "Merging bodies", the drunkeness of dissolving into another and into everything. All by way of contemplation, because it is through contemplation that action and fusion arise. Following the manner of the renaissance mystics, this isn't merely a choreographic proposal, but a healing experience (or illuminating, or simply receptive). A revelation, an encounter with our corpus delicti. A revision of the modern "Science of love" which Plato presents in the Socratian dialogues. Give birth to light, be light. Inhabit our light, our darkness.

"El Cielo de tu Boca" is an encounter with the body, with our own body, with our internal song and dance. A probe into the depths that will surprisingly reveal that it all begins in our skin, in the roof of our mouths.

The bell is a metaphor that was introduced into our beings, in our eardrums, as flamenco was, through the byzantine culture, in the 5th or 6th century. The delicious scientific mystery that "consumes and allows no pity" arrived to the western world in the Greek modal scales and bronze bells. Through this intimate secret, the art of flamenco has traversed the metaphor of the bell, from is origins in Amparo la Campanera, up to Estampío and his "Zapateado de las Campanas". Continuing through the "Campana Gorda", that is none other than Antonio Chacon. "El Cielo" will give voice to this secret...great voice.

If, for a second, we can get the audience not to question what they see, not try to classify and label but simply to feel their own bodies, their skin, the heaven of their mouths (what we feel in the process of creating this piece and during its performance), we will consider our objective accomplished.

Credits

Première in the XV Bienal de Flamenco in Sevilla
September 22nd and 23rd, 2008. Teatro Central.

dance Andrés Marín
bells and polyphonics Lloren̤ Barber Рguest artist
guest singers Segundo Falcón, José Valencia, Enrique Soto
guitarist Salvador Gutiérrez
percussion Antonio Coronel

artistic direction and dramaturgy Andrés Marín, Salud López, Santiago Barber, Juan Vergillos
choreography Andrés Marín
assistance choreography Salud López
musical direction Andrés Marín, Salvador Gutiérrez
scenic direction Salud López, Andrés Marín
espacio escénico Santiago Barber, Salud López
audiovisuals Yvan Schreck
scenography construction Sebastian Iampietro
documentation Juan Vergillos
lighting design Ada Bonadei (VanCram)
sound technician Rafael Pipió
executive production Andrés Marín
production Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto S.L. / Agencia Andaluza para el Desarrollo del Flamenco
distribution Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto S.L.
duration 1h20 no intermission

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