ÁLVARO ESTEBAN & LAURA ARIS
CUALQUIER MAÑANA
©Elías Aguirre ©Jelena Jankovic ©Andi Bančic ©Germanmaton ©Salomon R. Plaza
©Vèrtex Deltebre ©Günter kraemmer ©Mai Ibargüen ©Lucia Baldini
Cualquier Mañana (At Any Given Morning) is the result of a collaboration between two independent artists, brought together under the framework of The Anatomy of Broken Things —a concept developed by Laura Aris out of a personal curiosity. This exploration has led her to create other projects under the same theme with various artists.An intimate duet about the natural sadness of broken things.
Any given morning, light breaks through the cracks—now scattered, no longer intact. Once, they fit together, like the sky holds the sea, but now the spaces linger. They no longer fit as they once did.
A physical journey into the present, realising that the past cannot return.
I trace the lines we once drew, though time has worn them thin. Each memory, like a whisper, fades from within.
In delicate balance,
when a couple of words,
a gesture, a snap, a shift,
a casualty or a coincidence,
when a simple whisper can tip the scales.
Sometimes our reference points disappear,
leaving only guts,
the visceral"
Created and performed by Álvaro Esteban and Laura Aris
Original music by Roger Marín
with the support of HKAPA and Ultima Vez
The press said":
"Only two mature and well-versed performers can endow so much richness to each of their movements on stage, from their brutal stage presence to the meticulousness of their transitions from one step to the next."
—Luis Alberto Sosa Berlinga, Sep 28, 2022. Achtung! Dance, stage. Madrid.“The star of this year's festival was Laura Aris Álvarez, a renowned Spanish dancer and choreographer who held a workshop and performed with a solo and a duet. She has been on the European dance scene for more than twenty years. And why it was obviously seen in the duo Cualquier Mañana, who played with her younger colleague Álvaro Esteban.
—Tomislav Čadež, Jutarnji Kultura, Svetvičenat International Festival, Croatia, 2017
"On the stage, they demonstrated that their conceptualisation and proposal as artists are translated to the body and their performance capacity. At Any Given Morning displays in front of us the deep dialogue of a couple.”
—El Apuntador, Review of Performing Arts Quito , Ecuador, 2019
"Esteban and Aris use every fibre of their bodies to produce expression. We would have gladly seen more. "
Dietmar Kanthak, Boon, Germany, 215"Esteban and Aris are two wonderfully unsettling creatures as big as when two dancers harmonise.”
—Nicole Strecker, Boon, Germany, 2015
about ÁLVARO ESTEBAN
After years of working under the baton of different choreographers, companies and several choreographers, Álvaro begins to discover his personal movement supported by self-awareness techniques and meditation, giving emphasis to the development of awareness, all physical, emotional and energetic sense. Today, beside of been still part of the companies Cia. Daniel Abreu (ES) and CocoonDance (DE), he is looking forwards to new projects, following a work line that influences different configurations of the body, in it is absent - present , leading him into collaborations with other artists.
Álvaro co-created "Cuadra-T ” together with Natxo Montero, Finalist at the Choreographic Competition of Madrid 2008. Also co-created "Entomo" together with Elias Aguirre, a multi - awarded piece still on tour and with more than 100 performances worldwide.