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ÉCUMES

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Catalunya – France- Portugal
2006

‘‘…Écumes, by Paulo Duarte and Nuria Legarda, is a captivating work… Simply
magnetic, enchanting’.

Francesc Massip [Published in Estudis Escènics. Quaderns de l’Institut del Teatre, 32 (TARDOR DE 2007): pages 207-219]

A visual piece incorporating dance, video and puppetry. Inspired by the work of Boris Vian “L'écume des jours”, It maintains the form of surrealism and reinvents it with contributions from audiovisual language and the main themes: unconditional love, passion, desire, disease, the passage of time, death, innocence. Textual language transforms to visual language and sonic landscapes which convey the characters’ thoughts.

VIDEO · CLIP · CAST & CREATIVE · DEVISED PROCESS · EXHIBITION SPACE · PRESS


VIDEO

CLIP

CAST & CREATIVE


Creation and direction: Paulo Duarte and Nuria Legarda / Music: Tyler Futrell / Artistic collaboration: David Girondino Moad / Artistic assistance: Miguel Rubio / Video editing: Mélanie Pavy / Lighting: Julián Arnau / Movement assistance: Teresa García / Production: PSEUDONYMO (Reims, France) resident company in 2006 at La Comédie de Reims, Scène Nationale, N NARANJA (Barcelona) / Co-production: A Tarumba (Lisbon / Portugal), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-O-Novo / Portugal), ORCCA (France), La Comédie de Reims (France), Espace Périphérique – La Villette (France), MIRA! (Spain/France/Portugal), Festival Internacional de Teatre Visual and Titelles (Barcelona), Generalitat de Catalunya. With the support of: La Mekanica (Barcelona) and Erre Que Erre (Barcelona)

DEVISED PROCESS

EXHIBITION SPACE

Festival Noves Escenes Obertes, November 2006 Barcelona / Espace Péripherique La Villette (France) / Centre National de Reims (France) / Festival FIMFA (Portugal)

 

PRESS ON ÉCUMES

 

“Écumes, by Paulo Duarte and Nuria Legarda, was a captivating endeavour in which the actress and dancer constructs a broken doll, intoxicated with shadows, whose naked body was nakedness was walked about by an acrobat rat, while a half-living chair expressed concern, patience, nervousness or bewilderment with its legs and some blinds followed the rhythm with the slats that half opened or closed. Marionettes, objects and screenings were summoned in the show presided by glass doors with broken panes which she scraped as if to heal the wounds. Simple, magnetic, bewitching.”
by Francesc Massip [Published in Estudis Escènics. Quaderns de l’Institut del Teatre, 32 (AUTUMN 2007), pp. 207-219]

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