RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

​In a scenographic jungle, an abandoned drive-in cinema screens old science fiction movies in front of a car from the 1940s and the carcass of two cars. Mapa Teatro’s installation makes us think about the abyss between the utopias and dystopias in the past and the present, echoing the reflections of the play The Leaving Party, which the group performed at Mirada Festival in 2018.

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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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TOPOGRAPHIES: UTOPIAS AND DISTOPIAS

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Concept and design: Mapa Teatro, Renato Bolelli Rebouças | Technical Direction: Julio Cesarini | Coordination team Mapa Teatro: Jean François Dubois, José Ignacio Rincón, Santiago Sepúlveda | Lighting coordination: Patricia Savoy, Igor Sane | Audiovisual coordination: Rodrigo Gava | Technicians: André Rossaneis, Enrique Casas, Fernando Zimolo, Lara Bordin, Rafael Alcântara, Wanderley Wagner da Silva
 

Production: Performas Produções, prod.art.br | Production directors: Andrea Caruso Saturnino, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes, Ricardo Frayha

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Mirada Festival Ibero-Americano de Artes Cênicas

Sesc Santos, Santos, SP, Brazil

05 to 15/09/2018