REPITE CONMIGO

Vertical Dance
September 6, 22:00 h. || 1 Stefan Stambolov Sq.
Free Entrance

About the company:
Delrevés is a company for vertical dance founded in Barcelona by Saioa Fernández and Eduardo Torres in the middle of 2007. The two of them started from two different points – he, from a physical trajectory in martial arts, and she – from performing arts at the Drama School in Bilbao and Leeds Metropolitan University, and met each other in the field of contemporary dance. Owing to the different artistic experience they both had, Saioa Fernández and Eduardo Torres set as their main objective to create a fusion between various artistic languages. This can be immediately seen in their works, which are a combination of contemporary dance techniques, digital, visual, performing arts, industrial alpinism, and work with height safety equipment. This unusual mixture is realized with the support of the urban architecture which exhibits the typical features of every city. All these key points make Delrevés' shows a unique and unforgettable experience.
Delrevés turns the attention to the unknown and the new possibilities, and also the future. Using the vertical stage for their choreography, the performers change all rules of art. They take the audience to a parallel world –  palpably close, yet constantly elusive – a magical world where boundaries do not exist or just follow other rules. It is precisely there that zero gravity and flying are made possible and also mandatory.
The company's performances are a revision of all kinds of theatrical and dance events. Delrevés offers unique adaptations of the works they've chosen, transforming them into a remarkable vertical composition. Each work takes into consideration the architectural, cultural, and social characteristics of the city and the building used as a stage. The vertical dance transforms the urban space – it gives it new life and new public appearance. The street space also plays an important role – it subtly reveals the spectacle and makes every passerby a spectator and perhaps an ardent fan of vertical dance. 
Both the music and the audiovisual component in Delrevés' choreography are done live. The people behind the digital setting are Torres and Fernández themselves, while the music is composed by Aurelien Rotureau. Thanks to his original musical works which represent a mixture of electro and classical music and which are performed by the the violoncellist Nuria Soldevilla, the audience can immerse themselves entirely in Delrevés' magic.     

About the performance:
Repite Conmigo is a vertical dance show inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The second part to be precise, in which Alice takes up the issue of what it means to be an independent individual and the search for that independence. Delrevés borrow Carroll's unconventional story, move it away from the ground and take it up above, place it in a vertical position and then, from this already distorted perspective, take the audience into a magical world where nothing is certain and where there is no conventional meaning and application. Delrevés are mostly inspired by the idea of the “two Alices – the duality, the mirror, the reflection, it’s double-meanings.” Repite Conmigo symbolizes not only the absolute dependence of one being on another (for example, when in our childhood we repeat after our parents so that we learn a certain word or action) but also the game of power between two relatively equal individuals (for example, when our mind is in disharmony and the different personalities within us are trying to gain control, just like the two Alices).

Duration:  20 min., no intermission
Choreography:  Delrevés
Dancers: Eduardo Torres, Saioa Fernández
Costumes and image: Delrevés
Music: Aurelien Rotureau, Nuria Soldevilla
© Ana Diaz, Itziori, Lydie Huot-Marchand
Year: 2013