Danza y chistes (Dance and Jokes) is not a poetic title hiding artistic metaphors of fictional worlds or abstract concepts. Danza y chistes is what it is: dance and jokes. The most common jokes with the same contemporary dance as always. The Englishman, the Irishman and the Scotsman, mummy mummy, a funny thing happened to me…, and other major classics from the world of cheap humour engage in dialogue with the most conventional release, some misunderstood “flying low” and some scabby “instant composition”. An improvised show for which we’ve rehearsed our entire life, something between stand-up comedy and a jam session for barefoot dancers. A show that doesn’t aim to create new artistic lenguages, nor encourage risk or experimentation, nor create new audiences, but just to spend some strange and funky time among simplistic humor and esoteric asbtraction.
The work of Pere Faura (Barcelona, 1980) is usually characterized by the appropriation of pop culture elements such as striptease, disco, musicals or porn, to be de-contextualized and re-mixed later in a multidisciplinary choreography that brings together all theatrical elements.
After several years studying and working in Amsterdam as a choreographer, he returned to Barcelona in 2011, seduced by the artistic wealth that he thought results from social precariousness, until his career became conceptually discredited when he started doing impro performances with bad jokes.
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