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.
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