PREMIERE: June 27th 2008
VENUE: Festival Viva Cité de Sotteville-lès-Rouen, França
KIND: Outdoor show
DURATION: Duration 60′
The show poses in the format of a fable, an ever present question nowadays, tha lack of water.
Sirena a la plancha is a great outdor dance/theater show. A 8 metre mobile mermaid, a 8 metre puppet ans a stage composed of five mobile platforms make up a show wich the audience share the same space as these scenography.
Synopsis:
A woman who changes into a mermaid in order to save the world is caught by fishermen, sold and lost. A giant seduces her, a story of impossible love. She is water and he earth. The earth dries up and all interest is lost. Should we change planets?
The show poses in the format of a fable, an ever present question nowadays, the lack of water.
A 9 metre mobile mermaid, a 9 metre puppet and a stage composed of five mobile platforms make up a show in which the audience shares the same space as these structures.
This show was premiered in the summer of 2008 as a special commission for the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza.
ARTISTIC FILE
- Direction and Choreography: Sol Picó
- Musical composition and singer: Cee
- Set design and technical space: Kike Blanco
- Costume design and realization: Valeria Civil
- Design and construction of Siren: Mar Pérez, Francisco Coderch, Comando J.E. Carrozas El Morero
- Light design: David Monguet, Kike Blanco
- Video: Joan Rodón
- First choreography assistant, stage manager: Sonia González
- Second choreography assistant: Maribel Martínez
- Dancers: Xaro Campo, María Campos, Verónica Cendoya, Virginia Garcia, Maribel Martínez
- Actors – maquinists: Joan Manrique, Joaquim Revenga “Tatín”, Fernando Ruiz de Mendarozqueta, Ramón Tarés, F. X. Vidi Vidal G
- Technical direction: Kike Blanco
- Sound technician: Christian Teruel
- Scenography and structures construction: Joan Manrique, Kike Blanco, Ramón Tarés, F. X. Vidi Vidal, Fernando Ruiz de Mendarozqueta (La Viuda)
- Giant construction: La Viuda, Masters
- Photographer: Óscar De Paz
- Video text: Marc Rosich
- Production: Cane (N. Canela), Pía Mazuela
- Production assistant and Road Manager: Daphné Malherbe
- Transport: Francisco Castillo
- Thanks to: Aurora Navarro,José Sequena, Comfraria de pescadors de Blanes
- Coproducers: Sol Picó cia de danza, Festival Viva Cité, Atelier 231, Expoagua Zaragoza 2008
- Collaborators:Mediterránea, Residència artística i técnica: Atelier 231, Ca l’Estruch