IMPOSTURA
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IMPOSTURA was the first stage performance Ember created in 2010. With the artistic direction of Jorge Jáuregui, it was created together with Laura Aris, Luciana Carlevaro (Nubla) and Ander Agudo.
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People need fictions to live.
We invent and play at believing the inventions of others.
Impostura tries to build a concrete fiction: a person who disappears in her own body.
We believe in the possibility of deciphering and rescuing the memory, not only animal but also vegetable and mineral, that we all have inside, by representing a ritual.
Impostura, a specifically designed ritual set to reach this primeval body, is an initial journey where one leaves to become somebody new. It is a journey to the unknown - into an unknown body.
In Impostura, two women share the stage - a dancer and a singer. One owns the territory. The other has just arrived.
“Your body is not a word,
it does not lie or tell the truth.”
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Man's capacity for metamorphosis, which has given him so much power over other creatures, needs to be more focused and understood. It belongs to the greatest of enigmas: each one has it, each one applies it, and each one considers it very natural.
Only some realise that they owe to it the best of what they are. It is unusually difficult to probe the essence of the metamorphosis, and it must be approached from different sides.
Direction by Jorge Jáuregui Allue
Created with & performed by Laura Arís Álvarez and Luciana Carlevaro
Original music by Luciana Carlevaro (Nubla), Ander Agudo
Assistance by Iñaki Azpillaga, Idoia Zabaleta
Light design by Mingo Albir
Sound design by Ander Agudo
Costume design by Gimena González Busch
Production by Ember
Residencies: Azala espacio de creación, Artium Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, L'Estruch-fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu de l'Ajuntament de Sabadell.
Collaborating organizations: Malqueridas Plataforma de investigación (I+D), La Fundición
Supported by Culture Department of Basque Government
Texts by Nubla, populars folk salteño
Recorded and mixed by Nubla and Ander Agudo in Azala (Vitoria), Estudios el Murmullo (Barcelona).
Musicians: Nubla, Ander Agudo, Pablo Miranda, Amsia, Manuel Krapovickas
THANKS to Idoia Zabaleta, Cristina Redondo, Mari Sol & Pedro, Edu, Santi, Noemí Elias, Jerras and Sergio.
“... And looking back to what we had promised to be our unique, dangerous, unpredictable adventure, we found only that the end is a series of equal metamorphoses by men and women in all parts of the world, in all Centuries, of all the centuries of memory and under all the various and strange disguises of civilization”
©Noemi Bascuñana shares her vision about the creation process of IMPOSTURA
" Pienso en Caracol.
Caracol pienso en guardería. Guardería pienso en infancia. Infancia en abuela. Abuela en cuchillo. Cuchillo en corte. Corte en helado. Helado en verano. Verano en sol. Sol en playa. Playa en mar. Mar en nombre. Nombre en elección. Elección en pensamiento. Pensamiento en calma. Calma en silencio. Silencio en ausencia. Ausencia en muerte. Muerte en Libert. Libert en sonrisa. Sonrisa en diversión. Diversión en relajación. Relajación en infusión. Infusión en invierno. Invierno en frío. Frío en manta. Manta en sillón. Sillón en casa. Casa en cueva. Cueva en naturaleza. Naturaleza en sonidos. Sonidos en música. Música en goce. Goce en deber. Deber en regla. Regla en sangre. Sangre en vida. Vida en oportunidad. Oportunidad en lugar. Lugar en camino. Camino en paseo. Paseo en descanso. Descanso en playa..." Laura Aris
Notes during the residency at AZALA, Vitoria (ES)
©Noemi Bascuñana