The Lope de Vega Theater raises the curtain again after the Christmas holidays with two contemporary proposals focused on dance and theater, starting with the show Set of Sets, which will take the stage next Friday the 21st to explore the notion of time as a concept through repetition and rhythm in movement. It will be followed on Saturday 22 by the theatrical production Man Up, an acid and funny comedy focused on unmasking the traditional story of masculinity and its referents. Both arrive at Lope de Vega endorsed by several nominations for the Max Awards.
Guy Nader and María Campos sign Set of Sets, produced by the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona for seven dancers in collaboration with the Sevillian performer and composer Miguel Marín, who also performs live music. In this show, the company recreates repetition and rhythm in movement, as a metaphor for the repetitive nature of existence itself and the idea of persistence. Candidate for Best Dance Show in the last edition of the Max Awards, it is a journey of joint cooperation, precision and rigor that draws the public’s attention to the perception of infinity, time and memory, creating an endless labyrinth of bodies in action that defy gravity incessantly.
The exploration of the notion of time as a fundamental concept guides the piece. Inquiring into the idea of infinity as a loop that does not stop and with the constant interest in the delight of repetition, Set of Sets emphasizes the idea of the cyclical nature of our existence.
Already on Saturday, the Lope de Vega receives Teatro en Vilo, the 2019 National Radio of Spain Critical Eye Award for Theater, which will be presented to the Sevillian public Man Up. Andrea Jiménez and Noemi Rodríguez, directors of the company, also direct this work that uses irony, irreverence and absurd humor to question traditional masculine codes. Thus, this show produced by the National Dramatic Center, where it premiered to enormous critical and public acclaim in 2019, aims to be a space from which to question cultural assumptions about what it means to be a man and, at the same time, a place from which to imagine new ways of being.
Candidate for Best Show and Best Authorship at the Max Awards, Man Up stages six actors who launch themselves into a great carnival of masculinity, playing at deconstructing, reconstructing or destroying the cultural references that govern the standards of manhood while reflecting on their place in the world and their own identity . Teatro en Vilo premieres next May its next piece, Blast, second order of the National Dramatic Center.
Set of Sets
Date: January 21st.
Schedule: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Lope de Vega Theater (Avda. de María Luisa, s/n).
Price: From 4 to 21 euros.
Ticket Sales: https://bit.ly/3zVP9xx
Trailer: https://bit.ly/3tmRnoD
Man Up
Date: January 22.
Schedule: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Lope de Vega Theater (Avda. de María Luisa, s/n).
Price: From 4 to 21 euros.
Ticket Sales: https://bit.ly/3re6m1h
Trailer: https://bit.ly/3K8FHM8
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