RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Dance | GUEST PERFORMANCE | 2007

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CONSTANZA MACRAS 

DORKYPARK

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Big in Bombay

A waiting room which at first sight looks like any waiting room somewhere in the world. People are hanging around, waiting and killing time. Each of them shares this time of waiting with total strangers. An eclectic mix of pop music, political slogans, delusion of consumption, Bollywood-choreographies and telenovelas unleashes in the tradition of Bollywood. All you discover here as brand-new is already established in other parts of the world. Slogans like „no pasarán“ only decorate Che-Guevara-T-Shirts, their meaning got completely lost. Though all persons are in one room, they seem to exist in different places all over the world. Maybe everything is just the result of individual imagination. Here starts the paranoia. Their respective worlds clasp around them, keep them imprisoned in their anxiety state, in their mental leaps and guilty consciences. Why is nothing happening to me while everything in the world around me goes wrong? Time accelerates or stands already still. Everybody tries desperately to stand out from the crowd, to flee from his own reality and cultural identity. We appropriate contexts, identities and images to find out that finally everybody is doing the same. Everybody knew everything right from the start, and haven’t we met somewhere before?

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CONSTANZA MACRAS

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was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied dance and fashion design, at the Buenos Aires University (UBA). She continued her dance studies in Amsterdam and New York (Merce Cunningham Studios). In 1995, Macras moved to Berlin and danced for various companies. In 1997, she founded her own first company TAMAGOTCHI Y2K. Between 1998 and 2000, TAMAGOTCHI Y2K presented four pieces: Wild Switzerland (1998), Face One (1999), In Between (2000) and Dolce Vita (2000), a site-specific live music performance that combined artists from various disciplines. It was created as a one-time event for each specific location. From 2001 to 2002, Macras developed and presented the trilogy MIR: A Love Story. In 2002, she also curated the project ‘PORNOsotros’, where she performed together with Lisi Estaras (Ballets C. de la B.) under the direction of different directors four short pieces dealing with the subject of pornography at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. She taught workshops and master classes in Japan, the United States (Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, ‘On the Boards’ in Seattle, India Atakalari Dance Center), France, Italy (Rome University for Performing Arts), Belgium (Antwerp University), the Netherlands (Henny Jurriens Foundation), Switzerland and Germany (Hochschule fuer Schauspielkunst ‘Ernst Busch’ and at the University of Arts UdK, both in Berlin. In 2008 Constanza Macras received the Goethe-Institut Award for her piece Hell on Earth. In 2010 she was awarded with the Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) William L. Abramowitz Residency. Since 1961, the series has brought renowned performing artists and writers to MIT to perform, present public lectures, and collaborate with students in free programs. In the same year Constanza Macras was awarded the national German theater-prize DER FAUST for best choreography for the piece Megalopolis. Next to her productions with her company, Constanza Macras has also created Bosque de Espejos  (2016) for Teatro Colón’s Permanent Ballet Company in Buenos Aires; Soft Cell  (2015) commissioned by and for the Göteborg Opera Dance Company; Paraíso sem Consolação  (2008) a commission work of the Goethe Institut São Paulo with dancers from the company and a Brazilian cast. Premiered in São Paulo; Ein Sommernachtsraum (2006) together with Thomas Ostermeier, the Schaubühne ensemble and dancers from DorkyPark, Premiered at the Hellenic Festival;
Pegarle a la Bolsa (2004) a commission from the Goethe-Institut Cordoba (Argentina) and Happiness (2003) for the Saarländisches Staatstheater Ballet.

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BIG IN BOMBAY

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Concept: Constanza Macras, Kevin Slavin | Direction and Choreography: Constanza Macras | Dramaturgy: Carmen Mehnert | Performers: Nabih Amaraoui, Yeri Anarika Vargas Sanchez, Knut Berger, Nir de Volff, Jill Emerson, Claus Erbskorn, Jared Gradinger, Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir, Rahel Savoldelli, Fernanda Farah, Kristina Loesche-Loewensen, Ulf Pankoke, Christian Buck, Almut Lustig | Lightning Design: Jackie Shemesh | Sound Design: Stephan Wöhrmann | Set Design: Lars Müller | Costumes: Gilvan Coêlho de Oliveira | Bollywood Choreography: Sangita Shrestova | Music: Claus Erbskorn, Julian Klein/A Rose Is | Video: Constanza Macras, Kevin Slavin | Video Design: Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck

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A production of Constanza Macras | DorkyPark, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin and spielzeiteuropa /Berliner Festspiele, coproduced by sophiensaele,  Schauspielhaus Wien and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur

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Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production direction: Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Executive production: Ricardo Frayha | Technical direction: Julio Cesarini

 

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo and Goethe-Institut

Sesc Pinheiros

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

02 and 03/10/2007