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“There is an emptiness when you are being convinced that everything might be falling apart. Suddenly, in groups, they converge. The rhythm develops with the time that passes, and the body explodes. The liberation removes something from the individuals. As a result, a human practice emerges that is profoundly vulnerable and generous. This video is meant for any person, pulse or dance. “

Direction & video: Fana Adjani.

Co-direction & video supervisor: Oscar Vargas.

Original music: Pere George.

Mask design: Yvan Fiend Brand.

Performers:

Aimé Irasema Sánchez. Carlos Gabriel Martínez. Floria González. Memo Canan. Mike Bouchan. Juan Manuel Torreblanca. Fana Adjani & Pere George

Thanks to: Leonel Garcia, Geminiano Pineda, Camila Bouchan, Octavio Dagnino, Alexa Sol, Di Martínez.

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AMATISMO

AMATISMO
Digital Premiere
UNAM
Dance Saturdays Cycle | Stay Home
Saturday June 6, 2020, 20:00 hrs
via the Danza UNAM Facebook Page

Amatismo is the new work of the artist Fana Adjani, created as a result of the invitation on behalf of the Compañía Juvenil de Danza UNAM (Youth Dance Company), directed by Andrea Chirinos.

Amatismo is a work about a group of people that are bound in compositions juxtaposed with performative dynamics, spaces and bodies molded by fanatism. They build fictions, as well as personal and collective relations, their rapid expansion shivers under the threshold of cycles and orgiastic structures. They believe in a digital and universal language, they speak of their home (body) in their own timeless platforms, created in a deeply immersed feeling.

This piece was thought out to be premiered before a live audience and was in the process of being debuted when it was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, a new plan was thought up to modify it's premiere and ultimately resulted in an alternative presentation format, with a sneak peek look into the working process for digital content platforms. Said premiere will take place June 6, 2020 at 20:00 hrs (Mexico City Time) via the Facebook Page of Danza UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Within the framework of the Dance Saturdays Cycle | Stay Home we are abiding the recommendation given by the WHO if possible, please stay home and enjoy this invitation to watch and dance to the premiere of Amatismo by staying safely home.

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For the creation of Amatismo, Fana Adjani recruited a team of collaborators of the highest artistic level, among them are composer and music producer Pere George, who was tasked with creating the original music score for the piece, Pere George has been nominated twice for a Latin Grammy Award (including the Album of the Year category) for his work as producer of the album SIGUIENTE by El David Aguilar (2018), Aimé Irasema Sánchez, outstanding independent dancer, whom Fana enlisted as Assistant Director, advisor and dance teacher, Aimé is an undergraduate of the National School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, she was a part of the first and second generations of the Centro de Producción de Danza Contemporánea (CEPRODAC, Center for Contemporary Dance Production) and was a part of the Aura Dance Theatre Company in Lithuania, she was also a recipient of the FONCA (National Fund for the Arts) for scenic creators in the A category and most recently she was invited to participate in the residency program at SIDance 2019 in Seoul, South Korea; and finally Oscar Vargas, editor, visual FX and animation artist whose work has led him to collaborate with artists on the scale of Sin Bandera, Leonel García and the artist Floria González. 

Watch The Full Piece Here

SKALAR + FANA ADJANI Teaser Trailer

Teaser trailer for the presentation for Lasso (Facebook) #lassersatSkalar of the choreographic piece/intervention by Fana Adjani, in collaboration with the lighting + sound installation Skalar, by Christopher Bauder (White Void Berlin), at the Frontón México, CDMX. November 2019. Teaser trailer shot and produced by Guayabo Films (@guayabofilms).

SUBUNGUIS

 

THE INSPIRATION

By analyzing the economic fall and the hypermodernity of our current society and generation, the social relationships and interpretations disassemble and look at the same conventions that help us relate within a system or body within a vast number of criteria without balance. Thus, the needs get multiplied exponentially, the birth and death of concepts accelerates; planning and analysis is needed. It is important to vindicate the codes that surge from language to context in which we develop,  due to a need to chance our consciousness and the representations we’ve acquired.
 
This piece –a portion of the approximation of physical laws: space, time, gravity, and the impact on structure due to choreographed movement– is backed by the research of Mariana Centeno PhD from the Department of Physics at UNAM.
 
In 2014, Subunguis was selected to be the closing event of the contemporary dance cycle of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA). Subungis has been presented at several venues, including the CUATRO X CUATRO International Festival in Jalapa, Veracruz; Plataforma iN / iN International Performing Arts Showcase at Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART); Claustro de Sor Juana, featuring the role of women in dance in “Constelación Femenina” of Dirección de Danza de la UNAM.

 

 

SYNOPSIS

Why the need to make evident? 
 
The answer is as simple as it is complex: to consider something as true or to doubt its content and form –having in mind its permanence– because of its anthropological characteristics or a mechanical portion. 
 
Diverse fictions, psychosomatic landscapes, assuming to wander around, time and space, activate certain contexts and the capacity of noticing and memorizing until the perception of themselves is altered. The outcome is a formation of narratives, not linear, just appropriated. 
 
It’s not just about questioning or evidencing, actually the individual tries to legitimize before himself and others the acts, the affects, the me, that need to belong, to be part of, to appropriate, or to recognize something on many levels: socially, within systems or cultures, in our coexisting dynamics. An exercise where body is pushed to an intensely human action and enters a plain that not only represents and projects oneself, but forces validation, love and legitimization in an impact.

Duration: 45 minutes

Direction and original idea:  Fana Adjani Solórzano++

Creative team:  Fana Adjani Solórzano++, Carlos Martínez, Ignacio Velasco and Dino de la Lanza

Original score:  Mood-Fu

Academic adviser:  Mariana Centeno
Departamento de Física de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Stage lighting design:  Jessica Elizondo

Director of lighting techniques:  Juan Francisco Maldonado

Graphic design:  Francisco Mateos

Publicist:  Maricarmen Urbiola

Wardrobe:  Abraham Mendoza

Suitable for teenagers and adults
++Proyectos especiales FONCA 2014-2015

DISSOCIATIVE

Opus for two or duet for many.
“There are no doors, no mirrors… I will break the mirrors, I will shatter my image that piously becomes my accomplice, my informer, each morning.”
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SYNOPSIS

All individuals, even ordinary people, have many emotional states that can become real characters and at the same time they are modified by the symbol that another individual represents in their presence.
Two performers who represent themselves with all their I in a specific place and time create a complex interactive situations beginning with the personality they are living or fantasizing about living.
The piece is a personal deep and introspective analysis of the performers and their realities, emotions, psyches and thoughts that leads us to reflect on the transformations we suffer in order to fit into this society, or of the personalities that we never allowed ourselves to experience and are rooted in the subconscious.
Setting out with the premise that we all have a Dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder.
How many people cohabit in one body interacting with each other and showing up according to the situation, and the moment?
We are never the same, we change, mutate an infinite number of times in just one day. We call it the fragmentation of the I. We don’t see a performer playing a character, we see the character in a real state in it is usual condition and in a scenic present tense.

 

Directors: Fana Adjani Solórzano and Erika Suárez
Director of movement: Fana Adjani Solórzano
Performers: Fana Adjani Solórzano and Erika Suárez
Wardrobe: Marvin Duran