BURI
2023 Winner of the award for multidisciplinary scenic creation for early childhood from Bogotá District Institute of Arts
Synopsis
Minutes after arriving in the world, Buri discovers that his voice, his hair, and his size are different from those of others. After a terrible catastrophe, Buri is expelled from his city by the white inhabitants and begins a mystical journey full of possibilities, crossing mountains, oceans and jungles until he finds his true home.
Using shadows, puppets, masks, video and black theater, Lúcida hecha a mano company composes the plastic universe that will take us into the Buri world. Buri presents diversity and difference as elements that enrich the living experience and shows how facing the unknown, even when it involves fear, is also a possibility of fulfillment, joy and happiness.
Buri was born in a long-term performance carried out in the city of Lopburi, Thailand in 2020 while the director of the collective was trapped during the pandemic. Unable to return to Colombia and feeling strange and different from everyone, she decided to make large-format borrowed body puppets, using the local basket weaving tradition and natural fibers to recreate these characters that embodied the strangeness she felt outside her homeland. Dressed as what she called a “Buri”, she gained the attention, laughter and sympathy of those who initially saw only a foreigner in her. Glimpses of the performance can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Artistic credits:
Concept and general production: Adriana Rojas Pretel and Lúcida hecha a mano
Co-direction: Andrés Castañeda and Adriana Rojas Pretel
Performers: Tatiana Torres, Manuela Barragán, Adriana Rojas, Angélica Espíndola and Luisa Bonilla.
Original music and sound: Nicolás Gutiérrez and Alexander Rodríguez
Song lyrics: Juan Carlos Garzón
Light design: Lula Pedraza
Design and production of puppets: Angélica Espíndola “La Jaguara”
Set Design: Monica Bastos, Adriana Rojas and Angélica Espíndola
Prop creation: Adriana Rojas, Monica Bastos and Edwing Gámez
Costume creation: Adriana Rojas and Mónica Bastos
Shows
District Planetarium
Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo
Virgilio Barco Public Library
Bogotá, Colombia
Video Recording
Entire show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hguXNl Fls
Reel of the play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KeuOfN1RE0&feature=youtu.be
About us
Lúcida Hecha a Mano (Hand made Lucid) is a collaborative research and creation platform based in Bogotá Colombia and founded in 2013 by Adriana Rojas Pretel, director of the company. This platform brings together artists from different disciplines with the interest of expanding the experience of theater embracing different languages such as shadow puppets, video, installation and analog animation. Lúcida has a history of developing interdisciplinary collaborative performances and workshops for children inside and outside the country. We have carried out an artistic residency in Palestine in 2014 with children and youth thanks to the Colombia-Asia, Africa Middle East Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and Arts Collaboratory, we participated as a guest group in the World Stage Design WSD 2013 in Cardiff Wales, UK, and we had the most visited installation at the White Night Festival in Bogotá in 2015 For more info visit: https://lucidahechaamano.wixsite.com/lucida-hecha-a-mano/home
We have a sound section of sound pieces based on stories from children's literature that can be listened at: https://soundcloud.com/lucidahechaamano.
Technical info:
Name: Buri
Country: Colombia
Company: Lúcida hecha a Mano / Hand made Lucid
Audience: Early childhood (0-6 years)
Duration: approximately 55 minutes, without intermission.
Adaptable to theaters and unconventional spaces (black box space is required)
MEMBERS:
5 Performers
1 stage director
1 lighting technician/designer
2 Musicians
1 Producer assistant
Total people on site: 10
SPACE:
A space of 10 mt wide x 10 mt. deep x 5 mt height is required. It is required that the interior walls of the theater or the space are black The floor should be flat, without slope and black. It must have 2 black legs or covers on each side for entrances and exits, if there are no legs, at least 2 panels of 150m wide by 2m high will be needed in each side.
SET UP:
1 day before the date of the first performance is required for the assembly of lights and support personnel for the installation of lighting, video and sound is needed. During presentations and rehearsals it is necessary to have a sound engineer and light technician responsible for operating the light and sound console. (It must be the same person in rehearsals and presentations). Disassembly can be done on the day of the last performance and takes 15 hours.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF:
2 lighting and electrical technicians
1 video technician
1 set design assistant
1 lighting technician (to program the console)
+57 3184194446
adrianarojaspretel@gmail com
https://lucidahechaamano.wixsite.com/ lucida-hecha-a-mano/home
Cra 20 61B 24 Apt 301 Bogotá, Colombia
1 sound engineer for the shows and rehearsals (to operate the console, it must always be the same person) cleaning staff
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