“Tartalo. Week of the Fantastic in the Arts” Closing Ceremony.
Arriskuan
Choreography: Elvira Illana.
5th year students
The movements to be performed will be adapted to the lack of the bar, representing ‘the risk’ of the moment when students finish their training at the conservatory and go out to dance outside. What may seem like an abyss and a feeling of being in danger (‘arriskuan’ in Basque) becomes the creation of new movements that arise from adapting to an unknown situation.
Esto no es un tutú
Choreography: Elvira Illana.
6th year students
René Magritte painted a series of paintings between 1928 and 1929, entitled “The Treachery of Images”, which includes “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This Is not a Pipe”). With it, the painter wanted to criticize ‘representation’. What we see in the painting is not a pipe, but its representation, and to prove this, he writes (or paints) a sentence that reads “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” underneath.
Based on this idea of Magritte’s, the choreography Esto no es un tutú, takes an element of dance that we all know, and presents it as choreographic ‘material’ where, in addition to its characteristics of colour or lightness, its use takes preference. Things are their use, not their form.