To mark the twentieth anniversary of the death of Etienne Decroux, who "conducted one of the most important research into the Western theatrical tradition of the art of the actor" (Jordi Fàbrega, 2008), Moveo Teatro presents ARA!, a dialogue between E. Decroux’s legacy and contemporary creation.

This new show aims at re-exploring and situating in the landscape of contemporary performing arts the heritage of one of the great masters of twentieth-century theatre.

What is left of this heritage today? In which directions is the new generation of creators’ research going? What is the place of this art of Resistance? How does this art relate, in its contemporary developments, to its "cousins", theatre and dance?

From these questions, and starting with the idea that today our hopes lie in the re-invention of our relationship to “the Other” (other sex, other religion, other being, other desire, etc..), the company has entered into a creative process mixing corporeal mime repertoire and creation.

For each one of the show’s characters, "the Other" is this other person, close and distant at the same time, seen as a parallel world, unattainable, but without which we could not live.

ARA! is the result of the work of the company and its 6 actors led by Stéphane Lévy and Sophie Kasser, a representation of our tragicomic coming and going between altruism and selflessness, of the necessity of meeting "the Other" who lives with its permanent denial in our actions.

Premiered: 20th October 2011, Festival COS , Reus (Spain)

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“Soñar el rio hasta el mar” is an incisive and ironic reflection on solitude, drawing the portrait of a ordinary man dreaming the impossible.

The story of a man whose life resembles a mirror smashed to smithereens. He is lonely and hides in a miserable room of a dirty, poor hotel after a “big coup”: he has attacked a bank and is planning to run away together with the woman neighbour from upstairs. His wish: to forget his mediocre life and his failures, to finally be part of the world of the people who exist and to follow the river of his dreams to the sea, to freedom. But will he be able to reach his aim? To be the man who everybody expects him to be?

Soñar el Rio Hasta el Mar has been performed :
Carme Teatre – Valencia – May 2008
Visual Theatre Festival - Labin (Croacia) – August 2008
Festival COS de Reus - Octobre 2008
Teatro Tantarantana de Barcelona, within the Ciclo de teatro físico, danza y performance - novembre 2008

The production has been funded by the Region of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya - ICAC) and the Fundación Llull.

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