SUBUNGUIS

2014-2016

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Salón de Danza, DanzaUNAM

Mexico City

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 it 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.

CREDITS

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