FUNCIONES
Esta soy yo en el escenario
[Foto: Natalia Munozqui]
PLAY AGAIN
Proyecto Piloto
7 Augost 2022 - Las Tres Noches de Lastres
24 November 2022 - Teatro El Llar (Corvera)
Choreographer: Rebeca Martín
Rehearsal Director: Nacho Cárbaca
Music: Violeta Nureyev
Costumes: Patricia Vázquez
Communication: Raquel Martín
Dancers: Nacho Cárcaba, Mayte Suso, Andi Bilbao, Gloria Borge
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Play Again is a contemporary dance piece created for a familiar audience. It takes the world of the arcade videogames of the 80’s as a reference. The proposal departs from the simulation of four screens of different videogames for two or four players: Arkanoid, Pac-Man, Tetris and Pang. Our dancers will see themselves immersed in these different phases and must fight each other like the main characters of these phases.
THE ASTURIAN SISTERS
Teatro Factoría Norte
27 Abril 2022 - Teatro Palacio Valdés (Avilés)
18 Mayo 2022 - Teatro Jovellanos (Gijón)
7 Augost 2022 - Las Tres Noches de Lastres
Author and director: Eladio de Pablo
Performers: Ana Morán, Sheila Montes, Paula Mata, Hugo Manso, Chus Serrano
Scenography and graphic design: Juan Hernaz
Props and scenography confection: Nuria Trabanco
Costumes design: Azucena Bedía
Music: Mar Álvarez
Choreography: Gloria Borge
Lighting: Gonzalo Mateos
Video: Juan Tizón
Translation: Marián García
Production: Carmen Gallo
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The pandemic meant besides many other things, the stop of the activity in the theatres. Three successful musical actresses, chastened by the inherent precarity, instability and stress of their artistic life, decide in this new situation, to voluntarily walk away from the scene for a long while and create a community retired from the madding crowd and based on the enjoyment of the passing moment, the good vibes and the spiritual peace, summarized by two foundational principles: Kairós and Ataraxia.
Everything goes well in the community when all of a sudden, their Responsible of Internal Activities (RIA), called Leo, falls into the madness of believing he is Leopoldo Alas Clarín, and languishes day by day believing he is unfairly forgotten by society. Thankful for the services of their RIA, our actresses decide to organize a tribute to bring him back to his being and make him trust humanity again. But tributes are devil-driven. Come and see.
An acid, biting, intelligent, and extremely funny comedy, where its characters, passing through musical, cabaret, and vaudeville, will live a game of deceptions and disappointments in a world filled of false truths and true lies. For real, do not miss it.
RENACIMIENTO
La Tristura
26-27 March 2022 - Teatro Jovellanos (Gijón)
Creation: Itsaso Arana, Violeta Gil, Celso Giménez
Performers: Roberto Baldinelli, Belén Martí, Alván Prado, Mundo Prieto, Emilio Rivas, Marcos Úbeda, Natalia Fernandes, Eva Montesinos, Alba Valdés, Lydia Areces, Lara Fernández, Rebeca Martín, Carmen Muñoz, Gloria Borge
Light design: Carlos Marquerie
Scenography and costume design: Cecilia Molano
Scenography and costume design assistance: Almudena Bautista
Costumes confection: Isabel López
Props: Ricardo Vergne, Mundo Prieto
Curtains: Nuria Obispo, Olga López, Ana Arroyo, Julia Navalón
Sound design: Adolfo García
Production: Alicia Calôt
Production assistance: Iván Mozetich
Technical direction: Cristina Bolívar
Technical assistance: Roberto Baldinelli, Mathieu Dartus
Choreography: Mucha Muchacha
Voice: Vera Cort
Communication and distribution: Art Republic
Photography: Mario Zamora
Press: Paloma Fidalgo
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Renacimiento puts the microcosm of the technical sets and their workers at the centre of the piece. We want to stop to observe the kind of dialogue and exchange that merges there. A kind of cooperations which is very tangible and concrete, where it becomes evident that without the collective and the community, it would be impossible to get everything ready just before the curtains raises. Renacimiento draws from iconic moments from our democracy, a period shorter than 50 years. This landscape re-builds, sometimes subtly and others graphically, the last years of our history. Not to judge it, juts to look at it from another perspective and perhaps realize that everything is always again ready to be built. Renacimiento is a show with 20 performers, dancers, actors and technicians on scene. A celebration of the threatrical act, that puts value into the group, the dialogue, and the community.
AUPAPÁ
Festival Haziaraba In The Mapping
4 December 2021 - Kunarte (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
Dancer: Gloria Borge Lasarte
Music: Andy Monroe
Production: Estrella García, Miguel Quiroga (ZigZag Danza)
Aupapá is a choreographic gestural solo for early childhood, between six months and three years old, that offers an active interaction with the little spectators at an unusual distance in theatre. The show counts with a singular scenographic element, a huge box, in which the dancer interacts with the kids who are enjoying the show while moving at the sides and on top of the box, following the performer through the bullseyes. Aupapá is a performance made of gestures, sounds, choreographic movements and lights, that all together create a pleasant atmosphere, a quiet place to observe out of the daily rhythm.
DANZA PARA NIÑOS KINKIS
Proyecto Piloto
26 November 2021 - Centro Cultural Los Canapés (Avilés)
Choreographer: Rebeca Martín Tassis
Dancers: Rebeca Martín Tassis, Ángel Zotes, Andi Bilbao, Gloria Borge Lasarte
Music: Violeta Nureyev
Scenography: Patricia Vázquez, Carmen Vázquez
Light design: Pelayo Rodríguez
Costumes: Patricia Vázquez
Four little colourist and surreal stories approached from music, dance, and visual arts; are responsible for transporting us through colour, rhythm and fantasy to different and unusual worlds from the ocean depths to the outer space, letting the audience’s imagination flow freely as if it was all about a collective dream.
The nasty kids are all the kids because we have all sometimes broken the adults’ rules, even if it is because we didn’t have the time yet to know them well. That’s why the kids play, for discovering which are those rules that govern the world and invent some other alternatives. For those who it has been a long time ago since the last time we spent a full evening just looking at how the living room looks from upside down, or how many things we can get done with a half dozen of clips, this show brings us back the magic of play. It shows us the adventures of characters who play with all the expressive possibilities of their bodies in a hypnotizing way, while they explore the bottom of the sea o the big city, without even getting out from the toy room where they are surrounded by dolls, guns, soap bubbles, paratroopers, puzzles, and gigantic pillows. Watch it with caution: you could come back home with the crazy temptation of rolling on top of the carpet.
GAVIOTA
Brotes_Lab Festival de microDanza: Mujeres en Danza
21 September 2021 - El Huerto (Gijón)
Choreographer and dancer: Gloria Borge Lasarte
Photo: Rafa Cascón
Music: River Erne Horn Duet – Malachy Frame, Simon O’Dwyer, Liam Crangle, Geoffrey Webber; Vlotho Exter – Rechenzentrum; Beyond Skin – Nitin Sawhney; Often a Bird – Wim Mertens; Theory of Machines – Ben Frost; The Wrong Answers – Erik Friedlander; Volar – El Kanka, Zenet
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You are starting, how difficult! You throw yourself plummeting in the water without even knowing how to swim. You sustain the weight of your wings in that painful torsion that goes through your body from side to side to maintain a paused flight at a low height. You know that if the wind opens your wings, you will destroy yourself into one thousand particles of a seagull and you won’t be more than feather and bone. But, is that even important when you know you are right? Fly! Fly high and fast, calm wings. Fly away! Go, flee and learn.
RITMOS
Proyecto PuntoZerO
12 June 2021 - Nave 6 | Espacio de Creación (Pola de Siero)
Choreographer: Rafa Cascón Alonso
Choreographer's assistant: Gloria Borge Lasarte
Dancers: Rafa Cascón, Gloria Borge, Xana Llaneza, Samara Pulido, Mara Suárez.
Costumes: Noelia Alonso
Photo and video: Natalia Munozqui
Music: Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Pärt, Farc - Pedro Bromfman, Study - Secret Soundscapes, Interstellar - Full Tilt, Sleep - Eric Whitacre
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RITMOS is Proyecto Punto ZER0's first choreographic proposal. It is born as a reflection of the frantic life rhythm we live under, and about how it generates a constant sensation of oppression as it poses unreachable requirements. Like this, we forget about being, about dancing instead of following predetermined steps... This rhythm blurs our present, our bonds, connections, relationships... We believe ourselves to be eternal, we live on autopilot, and we forget that time is passing while we don't even realize it. However, the current situation we are living in has forced us to stop and question this way and rhythm of life.
STILL POINT
V Encuentro La Reunión en Danza
11 January 2020 - El Café de las Artes (Santander)
18 January 2020 - LaFuNDiCióN (Bilbao)
25 January 2020 - Teatro de La Laboral (Gijón)
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Choreographer and dancer: Gloria Borge Lasarte
Music: Indigo Dream - Jocelyn Pook, Mugam Beyati Shriraz - Kronos Quartet
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At the still point of the turning world..., there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. -T.S.Eliot.
M.A.D. Music And Dance
Malta International Arts Festival - MiAF19
4 July 2019 (Main Stage Boat Street)
Dancers: Gloria Borge, Concetta Cariello, Aline Zora, Alicja Sóosnia, Pamela Ker, Anna Armato, Carmen di Lorenzo, Luke Buggega
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Contemporary music and dance come together in a compelling programme featuring chamber works by Ligeti, Walton and Connesson under the direction of conductor Pavel Šnajdr. The programme includes new choreographies by Gil Kerer and Zoe Camilleri set to the music of Maltese composers Karl Fiorini, Veronique Vella and Alex Vella Gregory.
IN BETWEEN
University of Malta Dance Studies Final Choreographies
15 May 2019 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Choreographer: Gloria Borge
Dancers: Lili Kerezstesi, Milu di Lorenzo, Petra Chircop, Alicja Soósnia, Valentine Soucy, Amy Abela, Maria Agius Muscat (understudy)
Music: Alone I - Johan Söderqvist, Theory of Machines - Ben Frost, Tazarine - Gustavo Santaolalla, Aunque es de noche - ROSALÍA, Erupting Light - Hildur Guonadottir
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In between us there are stories, silent thing that mattered and still matter. There is space that we do not occupy anymore, an abyss of pride and absence. And yet, when the fears won’t hurt anymore, there will be us.
LA FEMME
University of Malta Dance Studies Final Choreographies
16 May 2019 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Choreographer: Lili Krezstesi
Dancers: Petra Chircop, Katherine Green, Maria Agius Muscat, Gloria Borge
Music: Kaval Sviri – Peter Lyondev, Lidilidili – Szájról Szájra
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Bitch, Lover, Child, Mother, Sinner, Saint, Your Hell, Your Dream, Nothing In Between, You take it, or you better leave it.
PREJUDICE
Mediterranean Conference Centre Showcase II
22 December 2018 - Mediterranean Conference Center (Valletta)
Choreographer: Fracesca Tranter
Dancers: Sara Accettura, Gloria Borge, Zoe Camilleri, Jure Gostincar, Fabiana Mangialardi, Moritz Zavan
The work is inspired by the haunting image of a series of black and white photos entitled 'Prejudice' by Hungarian photographer Noell S.Oszwald. The abstract movement form allows the mind to indulge in the 'no colour distraction' distorting a helpless need within us to recognize our deeply inner hidden prejudices.
THE PASSING
Dance Studies Tour 2018.
School of Performing Arts. University of Malta.
Result of the second chapter of Eyelands, Riccardo Buscarini’s travelling project dedicated to the islands and their culture. The Passing is a tribute to ghana, Malta’s traditional singing. Six dancers, like six voices in ghana, accumulate movement around one choreographic theme. They gather and separate from an intertwined partnerwork cooperating to find a common language between different facets of the same identity. Spectators, on the other side, are left to contemplate their connections formed and dissolved by continuous waves of movement.
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Music: Andrew Alamango, Niels Plotard
Dancers: Lelle Baksa-Soos, Gloria Borge, Melissa Frenznick, Lili Keresztesi, Laura Kuukanen, Emma Xerry.
IN THE NAME OF THE SHADOWS
Dance Studies Tour 2018.
School of Performing Arts. University of Malta.
‘The rage… wringing the shadow’s picture’
(Pablo Picasso)
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Original music: Alberto García
Choreographer: Lucía Piquero
Dancers: Gloria Borge, Melissa Freznick, Lili Keresztesi, Emma Xerry.
9 MINUTES
Dance Studies Tour 2018.
School of Performing Arts. University of Malta.
9 Minutes will be a piece composed of three episodes of Dance, three of Circus and three of Theatre: nine intersecting stories depicting the last nine minutes of nine different characters’ lives in mind-bending exploration of the power of being alive. Jorge Crecis will build the complete piece as a unique creative experiment throughout the academic year 2018-2019 by working with different European institutions: studio XL (Italy), University of Malta (Malta), EDGE, RADA, and NCCA (London, UK). The excerpt created for the Department of Dance Studies of UM encapsulates, in a fast-forward way, the three dance episodes.
Modern life is geared to put us into autopilot. How often does it feel that our lives are slipping past without us even being aware of the time? 9 Minutes uses movement, words, and music to highlight that, for all we know, we might be dead by tomorrow; we only live once, and it is happening now!
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Choreographer's assistants: Rosaria Di Maro, Adriano Bolognino.
Dancers: Lelle Baksa-Soos, Gloria Borge, Melissa Frenznick, Lili Keresztesi, Laura Kuukanen, Emma Xerry.
DANCE STUDIES TOUR 2018
School of Performing Arts. University of Malta.
16th & 17th November 2018 - Valletta Campus Theatre (Malta)
19th November 2018 - Teatro Circo (Albacete)
20th November 2018 - Teatro Galileo (Madrid)
21st November 2018 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Granada)
22nd November 2018 - Teatro El Albeitar (León)
23rd November 2018 - Aula de teatro de la Universidad (Oviedo)
6th December 2018 - SOPA (Msida)
10th December 2018 - Teatru Salesjan (Sliema)
Artistic direction: Lucia Piquero
Rehersal direction: Sara Accettura
Ligth design and technical direction: Moritz Zavan Stoeckle
Dancers: Lelle Baksa-Soos, Gloria Borge, Melissa Frenznick, Lili Keresztesi, Laura Kuukanen, Emma Xerry.
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The Department of Dance Studies of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta organises a programme of choreographies by local and foreign artists every year: the Dance Tour.
This show serves both as an experience of professional life for our students, and as a showcase of their work throughout their three years at university.
1+1=SPOON
University of Malta Dance Studies Final Choreographies
9th May 2018 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Choreographer: Pinelopi Mousga
Dancers: Gloria Borge, Lili Keresztesi, Carmen di Lorenzo.
Zazetsky was called to answer this question: Do you prefer to live or just survive?
The question that he actually answerred was another one... What does it take t live again?
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.
I CANNOT WALK AROUND MY BODY,
I CANNOT LEAVE IT BEHIND
University of Malta Dance Studies Final Choreographies
10th May 2018 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Choreographer: Maria Concetta Cariello
Dancers: Lelle Baksa-Soos, Ornella Bavaro, Gloria Borge, Alicja Soosnia, Francesca Zammit
...Body. Wrapping. Beauty. Sexuality. Clothes. Appearance. Junk Food. Excess. Box. Fragile. Normality. Discovering. My body. Your body. Our body. Shape. Everyday. Bedroom. Kitchen. Bathroom. Photos. Falling. Body parts. No filter. Aesthetics. Compact. Core. Connection. One. Hugging. Disconnection. System. Curiosity. Details. Tool. Pain. Layers. Manipulation. Senses. The way it is...
EXT
Note Bianca 2017, Valletta (Malta)
29 September 2017, S-Stages, Science in the City (Valletta)
Dancers and Choreography: Carmen di Lorenzo, Gloria Borge
Music: Paolo Gatti
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EXT is a performance project in collaboration with Science in the City with the theme of environment destruction and species extintion. The choreographers and performers, Gloria Borge and Carmen di Lorenzo, devised the piece together with the italian music composer Paolo Gatti.
REVOLUTION
School of Performing Arts Annual Collective Performance
7-9th March 2018 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Artistic Director: Douglas Comley
Stage Manager: Max Spitieri
Light Design: Matthew Gellel, Ismael Porteli, Gerald Agius
Technical Assistance: Clive Ferrante
SPA Coordinators: Stefan Aquilina, Phillip Ciantar, Brandon Shaw
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Caught up in the mediocrity of life
where freedom is just an illusion,
a bewildered herd seeks answers through anarchy,
revolution and civil disobedience.
IMÁN
8th July, Dance Hybrid 2017. M Space (Msida, Malta)
9th July, Sunscape Festival 2017. (Ramla Bay, Gozo)
6th April, Performing Arts Festival 2018. (Msida, Malta)
Choreographers and dancers: Gloria Borge, Carmen di Lorenzo.
Music: The Wrong Answers - Erik Friedlander, Bounce Bounce - Hilary Hahn, Hauschka, Caracol - Tremor.
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Imán is a contemporary dance abstract duet. Imán is the Spanish word referring to a magnet. This particular material produces an invisible magnetic field, responsible of the most remarkable property of a magnet: a force that attracts or rejects other magnets.
The whole choreography and its creative process is based in this idea. The movement and the different qualities in which it is performed inspires the forces of attraction and rejection between two magnets, in this case, the two dancers.
From a more intimate point of view, this concept speaks about our personal story, and how dance has put us together.
TRAVECTIO, TO THE LEFT, OR MAYBE SPIRAL STUDIES II
University of Malta Dance Studies Final Choreographies
10-11 May 2017 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Choreographer: Blanca Fekete
Dancers: Ilaria Lagna, Lili Kerezstesi, Gloria Borge, Nicole Labbe
Music: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major K 279 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Drohn - David Walters.
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Travectio is the Latin word meaning travelling and passing.
Left is where the dancers invite us.
Spiral Studies is the experiment in which they are looking for infinite circling patterns.
EKHO: I SHARE, THEREFORE I AM
School of Performing Arts Annual Collective Performance
8-10th March 2017 (Valletta Campus Theatre)
Artistic Director: Denise Mulholland
Assistant Director: Erica Muscat
Installation: Erica Muscat , Rafael Mielczarek
SPA Coordinators: Phillip Ciantar, Mario Frendo, Lucía Piquero
Light Design: Moritz Zavan Stoeckle
Technical Assistance: Clive Ferrante
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The telephone.
Originally invented as a substitute for an impossible activity: it allowed us to talk to someone at a distance.
A technological miracle: it enables us to keep in touch when face to face communiction was not possibe.
It wasn't invented to be BETTER than face to face communication, it was meant to be a substitute for it.
But over the years, technology has advanced us to a place where we accept, embrace, and PREFER this diminished substitute.
Little by little it's becomig easier to avoid the emotional work of actually being present. We message, tweet, post, text, mail. We have more ways of communicating than ever before, but have we sacrificed conversation for mere connection? Have we ended up expecting more from technology and less from each other?
