MARTYRS

CÍA. MAR GÓMEZ

JAMEOS DEL AGUA AUDITORIUM

January 30 / 8:00 pm

70 minutes

Adults

Humor and drama intertwine in this allegory about human contradictions. In a rapid succession of fragmentary scenes, a group of martyrs behave like a troupe of comic antiheroes brimming with irony and sarcasm: Marilyn Monroe awkwardly oversexualizes herself while an unruly fan lifts her skirt, Saint Sebastian trades his arrows for plungers, and a devout woman reveals her most perverse side before her object of worship…

This colorful procession of outdated martyrs and extravagant torments ultimately leads us into the conflicted universe of our contemporary lives —the modern martyrs of our time: the torture of assembling an IKEA shelf, the tyranny of beauty and image, the obsession with romantic love, or the contradictions of social relationships.

 

Mar Gómez Company is a dance-theatre company that blends a highly personal choreographic style with elements such as theatricality, narrative, the poetics of images, gesture, physicality, and above all, a strong sense of humor.

The company was founded in Barcelona in 1992 and since then has been creating and performing around the world for the past 30 years. The stage and street productions of Cía. Mar Gómez have generated an extraordinary rapport with audiences. This has led the company to undertake numerous national and international tours and to become a leading reference in dance theatre at the national level.

The company has performed at some of the main international performing arts festivals, especially in Europe and Latin America, and occasionally also in Asia and Africa. It has appeared at the Sibiu Festival (Romania), SIDance (South Korea), Beijing Fringe Festival (China), GDIF Greenwich and Docklands (United Kingdom), Sztuka Ulicznicy (Poland), Arkhangelsk International Street Festival (Russia), Freiburg’s Internationale Kulturbörse (Germany), Pflasterspektakel Festival (Austria), Festival Prisma (Panama), Festival Danzaextremadura (Mexico), among others. Several of the company’s productions have been co-produced and/or presented at national fairs and festivals such as Fira de Tàrrega, the Grec Festival, and the Sismògraf Festival.

CREDITS

Direction and dramaturgy: Mar Gómez and Magda Puyo

Performers: Mar Gómez, Xavier Martínez, Silvia Capell and Mai Matsuki

Choreography: Colectiva

Stage design: Ramon Simó

Costume: Maribel Salvans

Lighting: Jaume Ortiz

Music: Various authors

A production by: Mar Gómez Company with the support of the Government of Catalonia, ICEC, INAEM, L’Estruch and the City Council of Sabadell.

www.ciamargomez.com

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