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Mur

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Dance, Music, Architecture

18th of Januray, 2007, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.

Extract from Beckett’s fourth text in a series of five

Mur takes place in an imaginary open space, delimited by a powerful scenery designed by David Jimenez and original music by Pedro Navarrete. The piece is inspired by a text from Foirades, collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns. The austerity of Beckett’s writing is remarkable. Using unfinished phrases and incomplete, ambiguous descriptions he creates a space both tangible and emotive. This is the aim of Mur. By dividing the stage with a plain barrier and by delimiting and directing the dancer, simple movement provokes an emotional response.

Beginning with the wall front stage, radically limiting the possibilities of movement and creating an anticipation of what can happen, the space is slowly opened, the dance enters the space and the possibilities multiply. The dance has then to take its own decisions and establish its own limits: Perhaps the barrier is not merely physical.

Choreography: Thomas Noone
Dancers: Ásgeir Magnusson, Ana Cáceres, Gemma Galera/Alba Barral, Horne Horneman, Núria Martínez and Thomas Noone.
Original Music: Pedro Navarrete
Musicians: Violoncellos: Joaquín Ruiz, Violin: Reynaldo Maceo, Viola: José Martínez
Recording and Mixing: Hugo Westerdahl (AXIS)
Set Design: David Jiménez with the collaboration of Martin Ocampo and Juan Álvarez
Set Construction: Taller Escenografía Jorba-Mirò
Light Design: Jaume Ortiz
Sound Technician: Gianfranco Pappalardo

Collaborators

PEDRO NAVARRETE. Music

The carrer of Pedro Navarrete has always been closely related to the stage. After studying Piano and Composition in the Conservatoire of Zaragoza he established himself in Madrid in the mid eighties, where rapidly he was in great demand both as musician and arranger by diverse groups and record companies with musical styles ranging from popular to contemporary music and the avant-garde.

He started composing for Dance for the company 10 x 10 Danza (Winner of the Spanish National Prize for Dance 2000) with the collaboration Meeting Point, continuing to create music for the choreographies Años aguardando un gesto (1993), Milagro (1996) and Venus Benedecta (1997). During this time he also composed “Ottepel” (1994) for Danat Dansa.

From 1996 Navarrete began a long term collaboration with the company Provisional Danza directed by Carmen Werner and composing the music for all the companies repertoire. In 2001 with the composition Aonia created for the piece El tiempo de un instante, he won the Onassis Prize in the 1st International Competition of Music for Dance.

In addition to his activity as a composer, Pedro Navarrete has taken part in various Theatrical productions. Notably, as both musical director and pianist, he collaborated with the actress Nuria Espert in the tour Poems and Songs – Brecht / Weill.

DAVID JIMÉNEZ: Set

David Jimenez studied Architecture in the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (UPC). His professional career started in 1999 when he collaborated in the competition Europandom (Pich Aguilera Arquitectes) investigating Urban development via housing in European Ultramar regions. Between 2000 and 2004 he has collaborated in the development and presentation of projects for the company Nadal & Puigdengoles Arquitectes and in 2003 was finalist in the competition for Young Architects in the same firm.

Mur is a co-production of the Mercat de les Flors and Thomas Noone Dance, with the special participation of the Teatre Auditori de Granollers and Can Gomà del Ajuntament de Mollet del Vallès.