ABOUT AHUYÉNTANOS ESTE FUROR (CHASE THE FRENZY AWAY FROM US)
Ahuyéntanos este furor (Chase this frenzy away from us) is a performance lab about “the feminine”. An exploration of some of the favorite myths associated to women like hysteria, wickedness or complaisance. An act of empowerment and autonomy.
Synopsis
Ahuyéntanos este furor combines dance, voice and text. The work is based in three ascendant states, from minor to major amount of conscience and empowerment:
1. Whispers and wool, at home, sheep-like. Exploring the private space, showing languid, passive, fevered-medicated women that become stronger while they get together, connect and help each other.
2. Trance-hysteria, at the forest. Placed in a middle space, it is the collective awareness through the cleansing and sublimation of desires, to get another approach and a different universe where they are subjects of themselves.
3. Between a witches' sabbath and Bonnie Tyler (musical clip), in scene. Placed in a public space, it is total empowerment, mixing the new and the old concepts to begin a new life.
As a whole, it is the creation of an out-of-the-ordinary universe, in movement and sound, easing up the break of psychological barriers and exploring more extreme, wild and absurd aspects.
It develops creative skills of improvisation, sense of group, accompaniment, high level of coordination and the ability to work at the same time with voice, text and body movement.
Open both to professionals and amateurs in Performing Arts (dancers, actresses, musicians, singers...) and to any woman interested in expressing and empowering themselves through their body and voice.
Artist Schedule
Conceptual work and Art Direction: Bárbara Sánchez.
Vocal coordination: Alicia Murillo
Play-writing: Raquel Campuzano Godoy.
Creation and Performance: by the performers.
AHUYÉNTANOS ESTE FUROR[EN SOLITARIA](CHASE THE FRENZY AWAY FROM US[AS SOLOIST])
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It comes out of my curiousity to experience the process of the performance-lab Ahuyéntanos este furor without the group, just by myself.
After experiencing the strength and security of “the herd”, I decided to try out what would it be like if one of them went astray and left the group to become a solitary bitch, without the support of her sisters.
Would she be a lonely bitch?
Would she be a dead bitch?
Ahuyéntanos este furor [as soloist] is the disassociation from the herd, keeping the same structure of the group-lab. Experiencing the difference, without the others, to see what happens.
A woman living alone
1 bitch 1
Whispers and wool
Trance and Dioniso
This performance takes place, as a journey, in three different spaces within the same building.
Art Direction and Performance: Bárbara Sánchez.
Duration: 40 min.
AHUYÉNTANOS ESTE FUROR[HOMBRES](CHASE THE FRENZY AWAY FROM US[MEN])
It is the same performance-lab Ahuyéntanos este furor experienced in men bodies.
Ahuyéntanos este furor[men]is a performance lab about “the feminine”. An exploration of some of the favorite myths associated to women like hysteria, wickedness or complaisance. An act of empowerment and autonomy.
Ahuyéntanos este furor[men]is a performance lab about “the feminine”. An exploration of some of the favorite myths associated to women like hysteria, wickedness or complaisance. An act of empowerment and autonomy.
Open both to dancers, actors, musicians, singers and to any man that would like to experience how does it feel like, in our hetero-patriarchal society that is more than six thousand years old, to be born with a pussy.
TEAM
BÁRBARA SÁNCHEZ/CONCEPTUAL WORK AND ART DIRECTION
ALICIA MURILLO/VOCAL COORDINATION
TEAM
BÁRBARA SÁNCHEZ/CONCEPTUAL WORK AND ART DIRECTION
Sevilla 1975. Choreographer and performer. I studied drama, classic dance and contemporary dance in Sevilla, expanding my training in many european cities(London, Paris, Toulouse...) with choreographers such as Phillipe Gaulier, Enrique Pardo, Germana Civera, Julyen Hamillton, María Muñoz, Jordi Cortés, Roberto Olivan, Ivo Dimchev. I've worked in London and the Caribbean as a striptease dancer and as a contemporary dancer with andalusian companies such as Manuela Nogales, El Velador or La Cuadra de Sevilla, having the opportunity to go on tour around the world, performing in many theatres throughout the years. In 2003 I began my solo career as choreographer. I had created and perform three solos: “A la vuelta de la esquina” (“Around the corner”), “El jardín de atrás” (“The backyard garden”) and “Plutón no es un planeta” (“Pluto is not a planet”). “Ahuyéntanos este furor [en solitaria]”. Together with Roberto Martínez, “Mejor no saber su nombre” (“Better not to know its name”) and “Gala Fantoche”. Recently, I have collaborateded with the visual artist and performer Abraham Hurtado. In 2013 I directed the piece "LA satisfacción del capricho", produced by the International Itálica Dance Festival. At the moment, I am directing a feminist performance-lab “Ahuyéntanos este furor”. My work has been shown at many national cities.
ALICIA MURILLO/VOCAL COORDINATION
Sevilla, 1975. Multidisciplinary artist and activist feminist.
She studied Singing at the Conservatorio Manuel Castillo De Sevilla(Spain) and the Conservatorio G. Rossini de Pesaro (Italy) where she finished her studies under the guidance of teachers Daniela Broganelli and Lucia Fiori. In order to complement her singing education, Alicia has also studied dancing, flute and piano.
She started her career as an ancient music soloist when she was 20 years old participating in different tours with the vocal-instrumental ensemble Arte Factum. She has since worked with companies from around the world such as Bárbara Sánchez’s, Circus Contraption, La Cuadra de Sevilla (directed by Salvador Távora), Vertical Cuarteto, La Zanfoña Móvil and Sottomondo Urbano.
She has toured internationally in Belgium, USA, France, Mexico, Morocco, Greece, Spain, Italy, UK… Some of the festivals where Alicia has sung are: Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona; Festival del Castell de Peralada; Athens Music Festival; Rossini Opera Festival; Festival Cervantino, Edinburgh Festival etc.
Alicia Murillo, in collaboration with other young artists such as Francesco Manna, Daniela Ferrati or Eduardo Khawam, has created different shows: "Tatuaje", "Encuentro", "De Andalucía a América", "Youkali", "Opera Café", "Opera Kabaret" and "Tenor o no tenor".
Political activism performances, audiovisual techniques, puppets, text, dance, cabaret, circus and opera are some of the components of her works.
Alicia Murillo has carried out her first cinematographic performance with the guidance of film director Jamal Belmejdoub. The feature film Mighiss, from Bravo Productions, includes also the performances of other Spanish actors and actresses such as Javier Rey, Roberto Cerdá, Juanma Rodríguez and Mélida Molina.
She has recorded for Sars Records, Milan (Italy), DNA (Italy), Tokyo TV (Japan) and Univisión (USA).
CALENDAR
2013
July, from 22 till 27. Ahuyéntanos este furor. Intervencion IV.Centro Negra/Blanca/Murcia. Spain.
April, from 19 till 21. Ahuyéntanos este furor[men].Performance-lab. El Arsenal, Cádiz. Spain
2012
November, 17. Ahuyéntanos este furor[as soloist].LEAL.LAV, Teather Leal de La Laguna, Tenerife. Spain
November, from 13 till 16. Ahuyéntanos este furor. Performance-lab. LEAL.LAV,Teather Leal de La Laguna.Tenerife, Spain.
November, 15. Meeting with Contramarea Association Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
September, 16. Ahuyéntanos este furor. Festival Alamedeando(Sevilla).
June, 22 and 23.Ahuyéntanos este furor. Sevilla, Spain.
2011
September, 16. Ahuyéntanos este furor[as soloist]. Festival Mapa.Cataluña, Spain.
June, 22. Ahuyéntanos este furor. Premier. Sevilla
2010
October. First lab Ahuyéntanos este furor. Sevilla.
