The artistic team explains: Revelar un lugar (Revealing a place) is a collective mechanism for revealing a place. To do so, we are developing a practice in different open spaces where we work with sound and movement as materialities that alternate in different time and sensory periods. This perceptive practice is based on an event where we don´t differentiate from the place. Or the complete opposite, it makes us visitors anywhere. We understand place as everything that encompasses us. Allowing us to cross through the vibration of the cardinal points, what we see and what we don´t see until night falls. In accordance with a continuous stream, we inhabit a unique body through movement, sound, the present presence. In order for the collective mechanism to occur everything in us is listening.
Together, we want to study forms of working where each artistic discipline is at the service of revealing the place, in this case, in the Castillo hall. In order to reveal the place, we will work with the following layers: the body in movement of Carlota Mantecón; the sound creation and violin of Luz Prado; the spatialisation of sound and the amplification of sound of the materials of the hall with Pablo Contreras, the lighting design and use of the lights themselves as a prop and manipulable material with Dimás Cedres. Expanding on the normal logic of theatre, we want to work with a plastic/visual gaze on materials or objects by Javier Caldas.
CARLOTA MANTECÓN
Artist, choreographer and dancer. She works in the field of dance, performativity and curatorship. Postgraduate degree in Performance PG and One year certificate at London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) (London 2007-2009). As a dancer she has worked with Carmelo Salazar, Jesús Rubio Gamo, Masu Fajardo and Alexandar Georgiev, among others.
In 2016 she began her artistic creation practice, turning her gaze to fissures or holes as aesthetic policies for action.
Experimenting with notions of time, re-significance and reality-fiction.
Last stage works: “Dance, no goal" in collaboration with Luz Prado and Tamara Ascanio, premièred at Festival FAM 2020 and PTL Slovenia. “Esto no es una prueba de sonido" (This is not a sound test) on tour since 2019 around the regional and national territory, co-produced by the "Adán Martín" Auditorium of Tenerife and the Council of Tenerife.
In 2020/2021 she was curator for the programme La Cresta (dance and performance) at the museum TEA Tenerife Arts Space. She is currently doing research on the "Seguir Moviendo" (Continue Moving) project with Dario Barreto and Sara Reyes supported by Solar Acción Cultural.
LUZ PRADO
She is a violinist, musicao and performer. She works on staging through sound and believes in collaborative creation. Her practice is part of a constant dialogue with violin and the encounter with people who showcase forms of being through folklore, tinkering, movement and noise.
Since 2017 she has lived in Madrid, where she shares processes with musicians focused on improvisation such as Wade Matthews and Julián Sánchez; she expands on sound with artists such as Nilo Gallego, Elsa Paricio and Silvia Hayas and collaborates with dancers such as La Chachi, Elena Córdoba and Carlota Mantecón.
Her latest projects are Returning to the tower for the Monument to Disenchantment exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and the Collection of the Russian Museum in Malaga and Threaded Sound for the CAAMsonora series at the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art of the Council of Gran Canaria.
JAVI CALDAS
is a Canarian artist who lives and works in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He is an active member of the group El Despacho. He is interested in research and speculation about image, its contemporary creation processes, spaces and the means through which the latter inhabits and moves, as well as its relationship to the body.
PABLO CONTRERAS
His daily work always falls between music, sound and technique. He feeds the creative spectrum through his knowledge of technique and vice versa. He has worked for different creations in the audiovisual and cinematographic field, and in the world of stage arts focusing his gaze on the development of sound spaces. It could be said that this intersectionality between the fields of creative development is what gives him the strength to live, or not.
DIMAS CEDRÉS
A lighting technician who trained in the field of theatre, he has worked in different branches of lighting such as dance, theatre, concerts, lighting for television, etc. In the last decade he has also worked as a technician on audiovisual productions. He has combined his work as a technician with the world of teaching, giving lighting courses at different teaching centres. He has collaborated with different national and international companies, among which he highlights different shows such as: Agua de Volcán (Volcano Water - ExpoZaragoza ’08), Cambuyon, Island, Canary Gold, Terekitetap; Gläss, Refinado la cruda historia (Refining the Crude Story) La reunión de los Zanni (The Gathering of the Zanni), Pieles, canto al trabajo (Skins, ode to work) and Radio 3 Concert, among others.