RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

The Leaving Party is the last part of the Anatomy of Violence Trilogy in Colombia, a project that started in 2009 and ends in 2017 with no application framework for the peace agreements recently signed between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government. Like the first two parts of this type - The Holly Saints and Discourse of a Decent Man - this piece uses a device that questions, from different points of view, a complex relationship between party and violence in Colombia. A succession of celebrations that reveal, in turn, an allegory of devices for war and death caused since the 1950s by three of the actors of violence in Colombia: guerrilla, paramilitaries and drug traffickers. Theatrical installation and poetic montage of audiovisual archives and testimonies, real and fictional documents, actors and witnesses, children and live music... The Leaving Party, to the siblings Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden, directors of Mapa Teatro, is an opportunity to review the 52 years of internal conflict in Colombia - the oldest in modern history - and its more than seven million victims.

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MAPA TEATRO

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Mapa Teatro is an Artists laboratory dedicated to trans-disciplinary creation. Based in Bogota since 1986, Mapa Teatro was founded in Paris in 1984 by Heidi, Elizabeth and Rolf Abderhalden, theatre and visual artists from Colombia. Since its inception, Mapa Teatro has built a cartography within the milieu of the Live Arts, a propitious space for transgressing - geographic, linguistic, artistic – boundaries, and for staging local and global issues through various “thought-montage” operations. A space of migration, were myth, history and topicality exist continuously; intimate and public spheres; artistic languages (theatre, opera, cabaret, radio, sound and video installations, urban interventions, actions and performatic conferences); authors and epochs (Aeschylus, Müller, Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Antonio Rodriguez, Händl Klaus); geographies and languages (La Noche/Nuit in French and Spanish; West Dock in Russian, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings in Tamil; De Mortibus in English, Spanish and French; voice, image and movement (4:48 Psychosis, Simply Complicated); memory and city (Project Prometheus, The Cleaning of Augias Stables, Witness to the Ruins, Cartographies in Motion); voice, music and live electronics (Simply Complicated, Love Story, The Magic Flute, Orpheus) simulation and reality (Exxxtrañas Amazonas, Trans/positions); document and fiction, poetics and politics (Horatio, The Holy Innocents, Discourse of a Decent Man and The Unaccounted: a Triptych). Hence Mapa Teatro’s interest in the creative processes and events “in vivo”; in the translation and transposition of writings and scenic scores; and in the operation of putting together documentation, archives and fictions. In recent years, Mapa Teatro has focussed particularly on the production of poetic-political events through the construction of ethno-fictions and the ephemeral creation of experimental communities, Mapa Teatro generates processes of artistic investigation and research, which are developed in diverse spheres and scenarios of a Colombian reality. They are laboratories of social imagination.

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LA DESPEDIDA

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Concept and direction: Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden | Dramaturgy: Matthias Pees, Jean Tible, Marta Ruiza | Performed by Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Agnes Brekke, Andrés Castañeda, Julián Díaz, Miguel Molina, Santiago Sepúlveda | Set design: Pierre Henri Magnin | Music and sound design: Juan Ernesto Díaz | Live music: Mario Antonio Morán, Juan Ernesto Díaz | Costumes: Elizabeth Abderhalden

Light design and technical direction: Jean François Dubois | Video editing: Ximena Vargas, Luis Antonio Delgado | Live video: Ximena Vargas | Stage manager: José Ignacio Rincón | Production: Mapa Teatro, José Ignacio Rincón, Ximena Vargas | Production and distribution Europe: Camille Barnaud, Les Indépendances

 

Coproduction: Culture Ministry in Colômbia, Institut Français, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Festival Sens Interdits (Lyon), La Rose des Vents -Next Festival (Villeneuve d’Ascq), Festival FAB (Bordeaux), Monsouturm (Frankfurt).
 

 

Production in Brazil: Performas Produções, prod.art.br | Production director: Andrea Caruso Saturnino, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes, Ricardo Frayha | Technical direction: Julio Cesarini

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Mirada Festival Ibero-Americano de Artes Cênicas

Sesc Santos, Santos, SP, Brazil

09 and 10/09/2018

Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

13 to 15/09/2018