Israel Galván | Natalia Menéndez
DREAM
Idea, creation, and direction
Natalia Menéndez
Creation and choreography
Israel Galván
With
Israel Galván, Paquita Cobos Gil (voice)
Musicians: María Marín (guitar and cante), Antonio Moreno (percussions), Juan Jiménez Alba (wind instruments).
Music advisor Miguel Álvarez Fernández
Lighting designer Valentín Donaire
Sound designer Pedro León
Costume designer Micol Notarianni
Set designer Pepe Barea
Assitant director Ana Barceló
A production by
Teatro Español and IGalván Company
in collaboration with
INAEM
Born from an installation premise, DREAM, an anagram of MADRE, is a commitment to investigate the maternal-filial relationship.
Motherhood, understood as a biological process that equips the rest of our animal companions - not only mammals - can be tinged with affective connotations so close to love and hate - or very often - awaken feelings that combine, more than anything rational, those and many other drives.
This confusing and radical mix of sensations can resemble a dream DREAM/ MADRE. Or, perhaps, a nightmare.
Expressions typical of mothers reach our ears in whispered songs or exhaust us with pitched sounds, and phonetic materiality beyond the content. We are lulled by the nanny who rocks us and the milk that she agitates for us. To dance the voice and break the waters. They come into the world passionate about the different percussions, the whistles, and the horns that persistently cry about a baby that we want to silence.
The stage is also a maternal space and a sound provoked by the scenography in which the body shines through in a being that moves, rocks or kicks inside a kind of amniotic liquid.
This ritual - between invocation and exorcism - which in fact is the oldest in the world, re-enacts the infinite fight in which the mother is simultaneously accused and defended, lawyer and prosecutor. The trial, we already know, is lost. The only thing left for us is to exit our mother.
tour dates
España Bilbao Teatro Arriaga Antzokia 11-12 october 2024
España Madrid Teatro Espanol 17-26 may 2024 (world opening)
©Vanessa Rabade