Type of work:
Contemporary Dance
Place of show: Outdoor
Duration: 15 minutes
Release date: 2020
Photography Sergio Marcos"Piece created in tribute to my grandparents”
“Ahotsak” is a journey through the labyrinths of memory, the routes that often sway and get lost in forgetting, in minds annihilated by time. They speak about the emptiness of destruction, of loneliness, of injustice, of pain and of the total absurdity of wars.
Listening to the voices, the silence gets filled with words, with testimonies that lead us to reflection, to comprehension and the capacity of dreaming awake, in order to reconstruct a fairer and more human society.
This work attempts, humbly, to be an ode to living hope in spite of death, but, above all, a light to the testimony of the last survivors of that massacre which took place in Gernika.
As a descendant, it is a vital, personal and necessary reencounter, with a subtle edge of the deepest emotions, which push me to narrate and demonstrate my opposition, nit just towards something that happened, but towards what is happening now in many places in the world.
They are the voices which speak to us about the future, and which shout out for peace and hope.
Photography Hibai Agorria
Photography Hibai AgorriaBachelor’s degree in the History of Art from the University of the Basque Country.
In 2002 she was awarded a grant to continue her studies of classical and contemporary dance at the Sophia Antipolis University in Nice (France).
She has continued her training, undertaking different courses and residences in New York, the “Graham Technique” at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and at the Dance New Amsterdam, at "The Place" in London, P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, the Última vez/Win vandekeybus Studios in Brussels, the Theaterschool S.N.D.O in Amsterdam, Henny Jurriens Dance Amsterdam and Barcelona.
3 pieces endorse her trajectory: 1. "K- otica in Progress“, subsidised by the Basque Government and premiered at the BAD Festival in Bilbao, Basque Country.
2. “Symbiosis”, with another two grants from the Basque Government: Dantzan Bilaka 2014 and Producción 2015, “Emptiness”, a short street piece.
3. “Biopiracy”, this latter piece a work in progress, subsidised by the Basque Government and the Gernika Town Council and in collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Diego Sinniger de Salas.
She combines her work as a performer and choreographer with that of teacher, giving classes and workshops in contemporary dance at both a national and international level.
Ziomara Hormaetxe Fernandez
Ziomara Hormaetxe Fernandez
