With elements that remind Stomp or the urban shock premises, through the time pump or force, Mayumana’s essential feature is the ability to surprise with synchronous and choreographed movements plus humor from the gag.
Mayumana He is presenting his new show at the Broadway Theater on Wednesdays of July and August and then facing a tour of Latin America. The group created three decades ago by Boaz Berman He muttered a multinational company that has different representatives by continent, in the image and likeness of the business model of the Cirque du Soleilwhich unfolds in several companies and shows scattered throughout the world.
With elements that remember STOMP or the premises of the Urban shockgoing through The time pump either Fuerzabruta, The essential feature of Mayumana It is the ability to surprise with a perfect synchrony in its choreographed movements and humor from gag plus the simplicity of clownesco. This time the address is from Walter Zaga.
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“Currents” It was presented a few years ago in Buenos Aires from the premise of thinking of paintings from the battle of electric currents between Thomas Edison and his ex -helpant Nikola Tesla.
But the show that we see today combines the best numbers that the group presented several times in the country, from the four members around a table with a base of percussion of hands and feet with unpilating slips of each one, to the picture in which you can hear the heart of each one marked by a vibrates that becomes tribal and collective dance. The moment where something similar to the pong pong is played but without a ball is played although it is heard and even seen, first with square palettes and finally with pans, in a fight between players that ends the blows and remembers in everything “the three chiflados”.
The code Mayumana Part of thinking that movements and percussion individually may not make sense but charge a completely different and attractive dimension when practiced collectively, coordinated from the smallest movement to the largest acrobatic skills, with several mortals included in the streetdance. The performers use PVC tubes, tachos, bags and buckets with water among other elements that surprise how sound and rhythm converted into music emerges. The search not to overwhelm with technology was deliberate, so there are only recangular led screens that provide the color and beauty proposal plus the camera in viva that reproduces the scene and feedback with the public, present from beginning to end in the entire proposal.
At the close, the company goes out playing its drums and generates a batucada that becomes collective dance crowning a show that spreads good vibes.
Source: Ambito
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