• PREMIERE: June 28th 2002

  • VENUE: Festival Viva Cité de Sotteville-lès-Rouen, França

  • KIND: Outdoor show

  • DURATION: Duration 50′

Diesel Love is a spectacle born from a Sol Picó’s old idea of creating a dancing piece on a digger. After a co-directing experience with Kike Blanco in D.V.A. – Dubious Artistic Value – a necessity of keeping working together appears; and also the idea of going on creating dancing shows specially conceived for large open spaces.

With this intention in mind, the idea of a large dimensions show for a huge number of spectators but without a too complicated logistic effort starts being developed in a joint-production work between Sol Picó Dancing Company and La Viuda, Kike Blanco’s current company.

Diesel Love is a fifty minutes dancing piece for three ballerinas and three diggers. A great love story of three women who coming back home from a party at any night, ending up by being victims of a shameless Stockholm Syndrome. A surrealistic story – as all stories – in which actually no one exists.

DIESEL LOVE…A POSSIBLE LOVE?

SHE – I’m worried, this way on there is a sunflowers field that stare at me when I pass by their side and whisper between them. When I turn round they all dissemble looking at the sun.

After all it is not so strange my fondness for petrol. At long last we will be able to make some money when problems appear.

MACHINE –  Rrrrr….

SHE – I guess I’m starting to like you, my little machine

MACHINE –  Rrrrr….

SHE –  Now that you have won me, you will go away, and then I’ll have to tie my heart up with a rope in order not to loose it; … I don’t know. Maybe I should stuff you and then set you up on the dinning-room, but you are really huge and I even don’t know what to do with the petrol puddles you leave me all over the house.

MACHINE –  Rrrrr….

SHE – You could do something for your part, couldn’t you? Or at least stop purring!

MACHINE –   Rrrrr….

SHE – My parents already told me; look for another one, you won’t get anything out from someone who does nothing but casting up fumes, he will dig a trench and then he’ll get as far away as possible.

Artistic file

  • Creation: Sol Picó and Kike Blanco
  • Scenic direction:  Kike Blanco
  • Choreographic direction:  Sol Picó
  • Music direction: Mireia Tejero
  • Scenography design:  La Viuda
  • Light design:  M. Lou and Chus Parcero
  • Costumes design:  Eva Sanz and Sol Picó
  • Interpreters: David Climent, Joan Manrique, Leo Castro,Maribel Martínez, Marielle Morales and Pablo Molinero
  • Light technician:  Chus Parcero
  • Sound technician:  Gat
  • Road Manager:  Pilar López
  • Executive production:  Pía Mazuela
  • Production assistant:  Ricardo Carisio
  • Costumes realization:  Montse García
  • Scenography realization:  Cía. La Viuda
  • Platform:  Oscar de Paz
  • Model set design: M. Lou
  • Illustrations: Eva Sanz
  • Electric and acoustic guitar:  Pepe Gómez
  • Bass:  David Salvador and Maite Arrilla
  • Voice:  Dácil López
  • Saxos, samplers and voices:  Disolvente Tejero
  • Electronic bases:  Carles López
  • Cajón:  Juanito Linares
  • Brushes:  Mercè Ros
  • Production:  Sol Picó Cía. de Danza – Cía. La Viuda
  • Coproducers: ATELIER 231 – Sotteville-lès-Rouen (Francia), Fira de Teatre al carrer de Tàrrega, Ajuntament de Barcelona
  • Collaborators: Gomaus S.L.,HKL Baumaschinen, S.L.
  • Thanks to: Javier Cambero, Lluis Monteagudo, Kike Salgado, Jordi Pastells, Cesc Casadesus, Can Cuadres, Jorge Manrique.
  • SOL PICÓ – Dance company residing in Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC)