Type of work:
New Stage Languages
Place of show: Outdoor
Duration: 30 minutes
Release date: 2023
Photography Amaia AparicioWhen sleeping, the body remains as if it were dead; it does not see, it does not hear, it does not feel, it has no consciousness or perception. The faculties of man become inactive but the spirit lives and lingers. What’s more, his abilities become more penetrating, he flies higher, his intelligence is greater. We spend almost a third of our lives sleeping. Physically, we cannot function without dreaming; it is basic, like breathing or drinking. Where do dreams go? Do they disappear or do they stay flying through the air? Could it be that they mix within the collective?
There is a special atmosphere on the roofs of buildings. It is as if dreams were kept there. When you dance in the air, it seems that you are seeing them and that they are intertwined with you in that same dance. You who have ever dreamed, have you ever dreamed that you were flying and were being transported? There are universal dreams; they are like a language, without regard to race or class. There are other more personal dreams; there is a world in dreams and I, from up here, want to take care of mine. There is a collective dream which we also have to take care of. Because this reality becomes something so real and limitless, that it makes us capable of anything in dreams, and perhaps from there, we can also change things in reality.
Photography Amaia Aparicio
Photography Amaia AparicioGloria Peón Torre has been studying dance and circus arts for over twelve years now. Her career began specifically in the circus, where she specialised in aerial acrobatics. She studied for several years at different schools, like the National School in Brazil and the National School in Cuba, and continued by doing various postgraduate courses and residences in France and Brussels.
She has always combined her circus studies simultaneously with contemporary, African, Afro-Brazilian and other styles of dance during her training as a trapeze artist.
She undertook stages with the Brazilian company Debora Coker (Brazil), classical dance courses in various places in Cuba and artistic residences in Barcelona, as well as participating in regular contemporary dance courses in Bizkaia with instructors like Begoña Krego and Matxalen Bilbao. She has also helped in several of the monographs on contemporary dance organised by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU).
An eternal traveller in constant movement exploring the performing arts, passionate about the aerial world, always innovating and seeking out new languages in the world aerial acrobatics. She has also been an instructor of these aerial acrobatics for over ten years. A director and producer of this vertical dance performance. After years of research into vertical dance, she has decided to found this vertical dance company together with a cast of professional dancers and musicians.
The first vertical dance company in the Basque Country, with a personality and music based on that very distinct identity of the place where we live and are proud to belong to. Here we present for you the cast of artists that will accompany us in this performance and the adventures of creations in this lifetime journey.
Gloria Peon
Amaia Bartolome
