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| times, it is the first show Hochman presented in a circus tent . Image: Guadalupe Lombardo |
The principal and teachers created a minimalist staging and mobile consists of three racks, lots of clothes and hangers, which results in an entertaining show with circus spirit that characterizes all the work of your company.
As a spectator of the circus and the Moscow Circus came to Buenos Aires, had a slogan, a slogan which I loved. He said: 'We present the Moscow Circus. As always, always different, '"recalls to Página/12 Gerardo Hochman, founder of Companies The Trump in the early 90's and Arena soon after. Hochman does own the motto he learned as a boy when the circus was going to enjoy sitting in the stands as a spectator: "Somehow, that spirit is in every creation. Although the language is the same, try not to repeat the formula. The best compliment we can receive is that ours is considered an original show, and I think in this case went back to do it. " Hochman talks about times, the new creation of The Arena, where a minimalist staging and mobile consists of three racks, lots of clothes and hangers will result in an entertaining show with the circus spirit that characterizes all his work.
The game that enables this staging is acrobatic, dressing and undressing of the characters in each of the tables of the work is not done as a daily, but "it is always through clothing is a skill that or undressed, "says Hochman. Clothing "can change the quality of movement: in one scene, a woman has one foot footwear with heavy buskin the other foot bare. Buskin that generates a hardship, but despite this does wonders for your body unable to use a common way the foot. Clothes can function as something that anchors you, that inhibits you. " Or you can change the attitudes of anyone on stage: "There is one in which three people dress and undress a woman as a department store vendors who want to convince her to take those clothes and those clothes are built with different characters. And this person is acting in relation to the clothes you have. Work clothes here as a kind of disguise, mask, modifying behavior, "he adds.
- How did the idea of \u200b\u200btimes?
"The trigger, the original idea was a plastic idea: play with clothes and hangers. The previous image I had to bring to the team was to replace the traditional circus apparatus, the trapeze, ropes, trampolines and scales simply with three hangers-on which hangs the clothes. Although his appearance is that of common racks are specially trained to do tricks on them. Out came. It took much research, and Lucas (Condra, who performed the staging) will assign each element to investigate, develop and play. I support a lot of artists I work with. That it is a variable. Not from a script, I will not find the actors or performers who will serve me for such a role, but having a support group because I know a lot about what each can give me. I have also considered the wishes of the team. That is always a variable, not particularly in this show.
"This kind of shows, which have the mark a strong presence in the circus but also play dance and theater," created a new artistic language?
"There's a circus own language, which has to do with the circus action, which becomes the language when skills are a means to express and communicate something, and do not appear in pure form or sport, only to have admire the artist for the skill he has. I can get onstage and do five somersaults and is just a dramatic gesture, but I can do and say something or communicate an idea with these five deaths. Basically, this language has to do with the need to use technology as a vehicle circus. And there are signs that the company receives it best: there are more and more public, more instances to show, as a wheel started spinning and spinning well.
- And how to express this mix in your shows? Are there points in common with the past?
"This is a show that first experience and then enjoy. Our shows are not airtight, are metaphorical and poetic, but they are essentially experiential, which sometimes does not even work count. You can say "Go see it because I had fun, I was thrilled," or anything else, but makes no sense to say "there was a person who doubled as the foot turned up and threw the booty saves in the air. " That spot, it is not: the question is to be there, a dazzling surprise what happens. I say experience because it is not only just witnessed, but involves all the senses: music has an important role, we have even worked with aromas. In general, the characters appear in a very transparent because there was no mediation that creates an experience very close to who's running the scene. They show that point to the enjoyment. We do best, leaving us worse but we have in mind. It is one of our engines. The circus is.
Although the tent is the "natural area" circus times, it is the first show Hochman was created for this type of scenario. Travelling Although they were with last year at the Festival of Circus, "this is the first time the show is designed for more than one front." "We really enjoy the situation of working in the temple the circus," he says, and ensures that, for them, "have a taste special": "Artists of the company we formed in schools. So our practice was not in tents but in theaters and performance spaces, and work in the building that is identified as the place that should happen this kind of entertainment is a way to bring something that had been severed, "analyze. "It was a shock to realize that the circus tent was created by necessity of the show, and really solves a lot of things when he worked in a theater you have to adapt. Temple rites are different for different "compared.
"Your work is one of the pioneers in what is called" new circus. " What features does this trend and what the difference from the traditional?
"Sometimes it seems that has to do with something aesthetic, or even the structure of the show, and I think the only thing that differs is the intention in creation, it is to use the technique as a means to express and communicate. Basically is that, because one can express and communicate even under a tent, even with a show that has no history and have numbers, even with a host ... But in a show of this new language, the presenter would be different. It is not waive or to rebel against the building or structure that was against the show, even sacrificing the technical level. We need to triple fatal. To be called circus has to be hard to do, otherwise there is no circus. Would be new, but no circus (laughs). The circus is the art of how difficult and I like the triple somersault. The question is: the triple jump, how what intention is put on stage? Why me because I do admire and applaud me for who I am? Or am I using it as a vehicle to express and communicate something? That's the only difference. Then, if I dress with sequins, as in the traditional circus, that does not define anything.
* Time running shows on Fridays at 21 on Saturdays at 19 and 21, and Sunday at 19 (until 10 April) at the Polo Circus, Combate de los Pozos and Juan de Garay.
The Arena language
The Birth of the Company The Arena has its roots in another group also founded by Hochman, The Trump. "It's a path that has to do with the training I had and with the discovery of a language, to discover that you can express acrobatics, evocative. Discover a language gives you enormous power, which is able to speak, organizing and performing prayers in the best case, a large paragraph (laughs). And this discovery has to do with the formation of one. "The director says that with The Trump made a" selection "of street circus. "From my colleagues highlights. Was that 'instead of everyone to be in a place doing their thing, let's get together and do a show that I'm imagining.' "With their debut in '93 Simple emotions, the first circus performance in a theater setting. But there was something not quite right: "What happened was that they were not trained in the language you want to display on stage," he points out. So the following year created the circus school La Arena, "the need to train people that share a working code, ethics and philosophy, and a language." "Once there was a litter of people trained, we formed the company Arena, who made his debut with the Gala show, which premiered in 1998.
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