The work is crossed by the primitive, it invites you to let yourself be carried away by the sensory and tremendously creative journey that they propose. Alfonso Baron and Luciano Rosso from a beastly and odd performance on the Metrpolitan stage.
It is theater, it is dance, it is acrobatics, it is contact, it is improvisation, it is sport and all with a humor that makes you laugh thanks to the amazing gestures of its performers. Alfonso Baron and Luciano Rosso. “A red poyo” It is crossed by animality and the primitive, inviting you to let yourself be carried away by the sensory and tremendously creative journey that they propose from a beastly and odd performance on stage.
The energy overflows, the rhythmic, dissonant, magnetic and live movement is overwhelming, leaving the audience breathless. The characters that repel each other as much as they attract each other invite you on a journey of pure sensuality, struggle, love and war. There is a game in the search for identity that comes to fruition only in the contact of bodies, fluids and heartbeats.
“A red poyo” It is inexplicably unique, not for nothing is it the international stage event that has been on an international tour for 15 uninterrupted years, perhaps because it has no text and that is why language is not a barrier to jumping into the world. With more than 1000 performances and seen in 30 countries, for the next two weeks, only Tuesdays and Wednesdays, it will be presented at the Metropolitan. It is produced by Jonathan Zak of Timbre 4 and Maxime Seugeand the choreography was created by Nicolas Poggi next to Rosso and Baron. Points of contact can be found with the works of “The unraveling” or the great Gabriel Chame Buendía but it’s still something else.
It tells the story of a first kiss between two creatures, they can be men, dogs, cats or trees, who meet in a locker room and begin to compete, seduce each other and finally spread their feathers as if they were birds. The body management of these two artists is amazing, from the tip of the foot to the hair, everything is transformed and redefined during the show.
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Listening to the radio is hilarious: an incessant struggle between the songs and the monotonous empty voices of the FM. When at the end they confess that it is live radio and that they improvise with the zappinig, the admiration is absolute. There are beautiful choreographies with an unexpected menu of themes that range from Lía Cruzet to the german song Okay which was a bowling anthem in the ’80s.
The final bonus track with Rosso and “The Pious Chick” It’s hilarious. Safety pin “A red poyo”, of which there are still 4 functions. In times when Artificial Intelligence dominates images and movements, seeing so much beauty and fun with pure human theatricality and blood drive is a delight.
Source: Ambito
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