Canarii, avant-garde multidisciplinary art

The stages of the Cuyás theater witnessed this Friday the premiere of an outstanding avant-garde show. The canaries is a multidisciplinary artist proposal that fuses dance, music, theater and staging taken care of down to the last detail. The audience, overwhelmed by what they saw, heard and felt, applauded the cast for ten minutes. There are still tickets for the performances this Saturday and Sunday.

Canarii, inland is an artistic representation devised by the musician and cultural producer Manuel González and the stage director and choreographer Daniel Abreu. With a notable dance troupe, which achieved full symbiosis with the music, and a group of excellent musicians, strategically located at the back of the stage, with the great Teddy Bautista on keyboards, The canaries It distills the cultural heritage of the Archipelago, but without falling into clichés or navel-gazing. A show absolutely exportable to any theater on the planet, with the presence of Olga Cerpa, the lady of popular music from the Canary Islands. This description of The canariesbut what is not usual is the applause and ecstasy of the public at the conclusion of the performance.

Canarii, inland It is a novel aesthetic and conceptual proposal that aims to invite the viewer on a sensory journey that reveals itself as a leading spiritual and poetic space. From this route, an imaginary of the Canary Islands is drawn that goes into the country until returning to the contemporary world, represented in the city, synthesized in Las Palmas as an example of historical progress that connects all the islands of the Archipelago. And it does so through music, dance and video creation, in such a way that this unique production addresses eight spaces or movements that embody the stage story: sea, ravine, malpaís, trade wind, calima, spiral, city and bailadero.

It is a risky artistic proposition that is born from the fruitful creative experience of Manuel González, founder of Mestisay and restless promoter of very diverse production adventures over more than four decades. In collaboration with another islander, Daniel Abreu, National Dance Prize winner and outstanding figure of contemporary dance in Spain.

Most of the compositional structure of the work is due to Teddy Bautista, legendary island composer and producer, who signs the general score together with a talented musician of the new island generation, the timplist Hirahi Afonso. They jump over the generational barriers that separate them to build a sound narrative of very diverse musical symbols that delves into the heterodox identity of the Canary Islands, a mestizo geographical and cultural space. Manuel González proposes melodies and sound environments that he collected in his youth from tradition to which he adds some of his own compositions. Some compositions by Olga Cerpa, Yónatan Sánchez Santianes and Félix Morales are also added to the original soundtrack.

Abreu, taking that score as a starting point, deconstructs choreographic gestures coming from the roots to reinvent them in an original creative language that is very much his own. Six dancers and five musicians, all of them supported by a theatrical proposal designed by a first-rate artistic and technical cast, participate in the scene.

The support of the Culture area of ​​the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and the city council of the capital of the Island has been key so that the public can enjoy an avant-garde show, with a minimalist aesthetic and outstanding light treatment.