Silvia Gómez Giusto, director of the Vicente López Festival, which is in its ninth year, told Ámbito: “We want to investigate the transformation of the creative processes of each work, in the research that goes into making the work happen, there; in a space or a means of transportation that was not created for an artistic purpose”
From April 12 to 21, the ninth edition of the Vicente López Festival on Stage, which proposes deploying the performing arts in unexpected spaces. Created and produced by the Ministry of Culture of Vicente López with the artistic direction of Silvia Gómez Giusto, The festival brings together performing art with alternative spaces to those established as a conventional circuit and re-signifies the places visited by the people who pass through it daily.
Silvia Gómez Giusto said to Ambit: “We seek to reflect on performing practices in formats that come out of the box. We want to investigate the transformation of the creative processes of each work, in the research that goes into making the work happen, there; in a space or a means of transportation that was not created for an artistic purpose. How is that space fictionalized, how does another story appear? When leaving the room, the assembly of a scenic material has other needs, in this dialogue we want to know about it, the limitations that appear and how that affects or sometimes provokes the construction of the work in the best of senses. There is a lot to know about how each director or artistic collective works in these contexts where we also do not usually have the audience in a fixed place and with a single front, these practices have an active spectator. Without a doubt we have a lot to know about these experiences.”
What works can be seen at the festival Vicente López on Scene
Some of these works are: “The Invisible of Gustavo Tarrío and Pablo Viotti, a tour work specially created to be presented at the Josefina C. de Bignone Institute of Eyes, Low Vision and Rehabilitation of the Blind, anddesigned to experiment from a practice that investigates a non-visual world. It can also be seen “The Kings”, a work of humor and tragic farce Damián Mai, Felipe Saade and Mechi Beno Mendizábal which can be seen at Michael Ham School.
This is the ninth year that the festival has been held, which speaks of continuity in the policies to promote culture. Gomez Giusto considered: “Culture is an incalculable asset, it is our identity. Regarding what is happening at a macro level, it makes me very sad, but art is not eradicated, we will create with more force because we cannot only monetize the fundamental axes of a healthy and constructive society through culture. Proposals like this show that promotion brings the public closer to art, otherwise viewers would miss out.
“The Body Stuttering in the Proximity of a Future Sign” It is a dance performance Valeria Polorena and Sebastian Morell what will happen on the Vicente López Coastal Promenade, while “Unintentional Harm” It is a performance of Fabian Gandini intervening in public space near the coast of that municipality.
On the experiences of new audiences in their contact with theater, Gómez Giusto told: “We have the mission of thinking of strategies to get closer to everyone and the festival goes out of the box for this, for that casual spectator, who finds in unexpected places in his neighborhood an artistic event that surely sows a link with the culture that he only wants. make it grow more.”
Two pieces commissioned to be presented in 2 specific places in Vicente López are added to the programming. The directors Juan Coulasso and Francisco Castro Pizzo, together with the Rosetti collective, they investigate other ways of traveling on the Bicentennial Transportation with their musical theater performance “World, are you there?” On the other hand, the director Monina Bonelli with the playwright Paola Traczuk, They work creating a weave with wool together with the community of weavers from the Mercería Cocomiel in the Florida neighborhood, with their work “Tejido Samurai”.
The Festival also proposes a seminar by the dancers Lucía Fernández Mouján and Martin Piliponsky, with live music Guillermo Barbuto and Juan Ignacio Ferreras.
There will also be 2 talks about performing practices in unconventional spaces moderated by Carolina Prietowith the presence of the directors of all the proposals of this ninth edition. All activities are free and open to the community.
Source: Ambito
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