Performances

Short Video-Dance (6 minutes)

Gabriela Zuarez presents this meticulous, genuine dance on camera work as part of the company Sur Mundo Ensemble repertory.

Lapso de Fuga is a poetic, fictional video-dance manifesto. The dramaturge and the audiovisual director Agustin Ruiz Brussain convey the inspiration by writer Raul Cortazar’s topographies, which are shared by two dancing souls, embodied by Gabriela Suarez and Sebastian Pereyra. Both performers dance in a stubborn, visceral attempt to meet and escape. In the interlude, a camera secretly observes them from the corners of an old house in the Villa Luro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentine. The dance on camera plays with the sense of evasion of the Tango’s bodies through the permeable boundaries between the local corporeality of dance, image, dramaturgy, music, and site, merging into an integral visual narrative.

Audiovisual Production Agustin Ruiz Brussain | Dramaturgy, Choreography and Direction Gabriela Zuarez |Dance Performers Gabriela Zuarez & Sebastián Pereyra | Piano Music & Arrangements Barbara Varassi Pega. Artists in Residency Coreo-Lab Buenos Aires 2023. Production Tu Tribu Productions, Micaela Tettamanti Buenos Aires Argentina | Location Espacio Homero Buenos Aires Argentina | Sponsors Mecenazgo Cultural Buenos Aires Argentina & Dance-Theatre Development Foundation Amsterdam The Netherlands.

Premiere to be announced.

Interactive Dance Concert Installation
A performance Within a Performance

The performance DA CAPO was created and adapted for the venues of De Duif and the Perdu Theatre in Amsterdam. With DA CAPO, Gabriela Zuarez envisioned creating a bricolage that would trigger the liminal spaces between the documentation, the performative, and the presence of the performers on stage. Together with the ensemble composed of musician Gerardo Agnese, filmmaker Celeste Franco, dancer Damian Rosenthal, and scenarist Marnix Alex Carpentier Alting Zuarez presents this unique self-reflexive theatrical work that possesses a quality to adapt to each venue.

DA CAPO is a colourful, warm theatrical performance with the Tango realm at its main centre. It is a one-hour journey back in time to the origins of the dancing body. A journey where the movement, the music, and the visuals merge into a dazzling whole, in a dialogue between body and space, body and music, body to body, body to light and image…and in which a new performance merges within the performance with an overlapped video documentation.

Zuarez insists on showing the processes of transformation, making, and re-framing from the old to the new…and the performers take you on board from now to then in a shared, immersive performance setting. Those expressive contrasts are portrayed in the performance between nostalgia and desire, loneliness and togetherness, intimacy and distance. Those contrasts play a role for everyone and are significant for everyone to recognize, to feel and to experience.

Next Performance 4 December 2024, at Podium Mozaiek Amsterdam West.

Dancers, musicians and visual artists are hands-on in an interdisciplinary artistic-residency with dramaturgical-choreographic studio-work [Última Cena] led by dramaturge Gabriela Zuarez.

The studio-work explores the yearning for lost intimacy, the need for encounter and the hidden, contradictory desire for contact with the other. The dramaturge and ensemble offer a metaphor of a social meal as a centre of the theatre and as the locus of personal and communal intimacies. Zuarez and her troup apply its cross-cultural, hybrid dance language and instrumental-electroacoustic music where the Tango realm remains as score. The performers explore musically and physically different situations of encounter and human contact during the meal. This studio-work has a recurring post-pandemic thematic that exposes the disruption of family and social locus devasted by digital communication and the unpersonalized visual media culture. The work claims the importance of the physical body, sensuality and human contact as a fundamental act of social well-being. Those contrasts play a role for everyone and are significant for everyone to recognize, feel, and experience.

Última Cena is in dialogue! We are receiving partner locations and festivals to program season 2025-2026. Don’t hesitate to call us.