The piece falls within the framework of Canchales, a performance research initiative begun by the company in 2016, through which contemporary performance creators were invited to take part in creation processes, leading to the exploration of common trajectories and ideas from different perspectives. Arar is a work by Ensalle, in collaboration with the artists Juan Loriente and Antonio Fernández Lera.
Arar is the result of continuous work, with the preceding pieces and all the terrain explored and self-explored during that time coming together in a variety of forms of expression. Importance is given to the search for the present moment, and to the musicality of bodies, words and space, layered to compose a soundscape. The piece is inhabited by Raquel Hernández, Artús Rei and contains interventions by Pedro Fresnada.
Original text by Pedro Fresnada, published by Colección Pliegos de Teatro y Danza, AFLERA. Nº66.
“The idea is to expedite what isn’t said, what isn’t done. The journey, the road, the haste, with its speed and noise and disorder, the selection of objects ejected by the tube, the changing set”.
Cia. Ensalle is a contemporary creation company founded in Madrid in 1995 that moved to Vigo in 2003 in a bid to continue its creativity from the “edges”. In Vigo they set up the city’s first alternative theatre, Teatro Ensalle, a space for the exhibition and dissemination of contemporary theatre and dance, and a creation centre for project residencies, while also home to five permanently resident Spanish companies, Cia Ensalle being one of them.
The company consists of Raquel Hernández, Pedro Fresneda and Artús Rei, their individual and joint trajectories since 2005. Their creations are the result of continuous and constantly evolving work. They have staged many pieces of work that mix forms of expression and have a recognisable drive. Their incursions into the Galician contemporary creation scene have provided it with fresh input.
With more than 20 pieces to their name, they have performed in Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Portugal.
Their most recent works fall within the framework of Canchales, a performance research initiative begun by the company in 2016, through which contemporary performance creators were invited to take part in creation processes, leading to the exploration of common trajectories and ideas from different perspectives. Antonio Fernández Lera / Magrinyana, Juan Loriente, Mónica Valenciano, Juan Úbeda, Elisa Gálvez, Carlos Sarrió, Begoña Crespo and Antonio Sarrió have been the collaborating artists in the company’s last three pieces.
