“In this technological world of such complexity, where AI makes the films, there are eight people display says Walter zaga, Director of “Mayumana”that returns to Argentina from July 2 with 5 only functions at the Broadway Theater and then travels to Rosario and Córdoba.
The recognized company presents “Currents”, A show for the whole family, with FENIX Entertainment production, which searched the seal Mayumana And he formed a troupe of multidisciplinary Argentine artists, between 18 and 35 years old, who are both musicians, dancers and performers.
After conquering more than 40 countries and more than 15 million viewers, the scenic phenomenon Mayumana It presents a show that combines live music, percussion, dance, humor, acrobatics, technology and public participation in a nonverbal and universal format. Inspired by the historic “war of the currents” between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edisonthe show represents that battle of energies from the physical, the sound and the visual.
Conceived to “see music” and “listen to the movement”, in a choreography that breaks borders between dance and rhythm, with styles that go from High-Tech to Street Dance. Since its creation in 1996 in Tel Aviv, Mayumana has shared the stage with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, David Broza, Tiestoand has been defined by international means as Israel’s most successful cultural startup. We talked with Back.
Journalist: How was Mayumana transformed in these years and how do technology or AI incorporate?
Walter Zaga: The show did not suffer the irruption of AI, it has practically the same essence of talented people sharing energy and rhythm. You have that of the tribal where you cannot stay still. When the show ends you and the legs and body inevitably. I rescue that meeting today, a show where public participation is key, laughs, applaud, is part. There is no language, the rhythm is the conductive thread and the universal language. The party will be tried outside the room as in the early days, hopefully the permits to go outside and follow the party outside.
Q.: What new elements are added to this show?
WZ: I hope you continue to have that same impact that you always had and this show has a more arduous dye, there are native phrases and melodies. The cast of 12 people with 8 on stage and other rotating arose from a casting but they are all Argentines, which is inevitable. There are drums, boilers that we will see how they impact. This cast was designed to make Latinomanical Mayumana.
Q.: What remained of that company born in Israel from which you were starting from the beginning?
WZ: He trained there and is still working with the same training method, maintains that practice of transmitting energy. This is not show but a way of feeling things, his slogan is “Art of Joy”, so we try to take the viewer to that, without languages, without borders. The same experience was made with a cast in Spain and they turn through Europe.
Q.: And the artists of Mayumana Israel How are they in this context of war?
WZ: Now everything is paralyzed is a disaster. Since October 7, the work went down, the modality changed, it continued to work but my former partners and friends involved in the entertainment world say that very different things are generated. Not traveling, there are more local shows and the public consumes more what is there, there is no offer from abroad to Israel at this time. Before the Robrote of Anti -Semitism, in Spain, there was an incipient boycott for the company for considering it Israeli. But the truth is that I do not relate to the company directly to Israel since the focus is to create new casts around the world, as it was always. Mayumana did not go with the flag of Israel, there were always many nationalities, a very dispersed nucleus.
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Q.: Mayumana was your key to turn the world, what places do you remember as milestones?
WZ: Seoul was a flash, Macao is a Portuguese colony island in Asia that is like Las Vegas Chino, it is crazy. Spain, Belgium, Ausria, Holland, France, Italy, I remember events in Bahamas at the Atlantis Hotel where Michael Jackson had his room. We did shows at the Viña del Mar Festival, in Amsterdam on Queen’s Day.
Source: Ambito
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