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AN EDIBLE PROP, MARIACHI MUSIC, CONJURING UP A MODERN CIRCUS, ENERGETIC AND VERY PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS... THERE'S ROOM FOR ALL THIS AND MORE IN DANTZAZ'S LATEST PRODUCTION: A WORK THAT, AS IN THE TRADITIONAL CHILDREN'S GAME, REMINDS US THAT FRAGILITY (REPRESENTED BY THE PAPER) CAN BEAT FORCE (STONE).

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THE SHOW

Dantzaz is presenting its new show, comprising three pieces by Les Vikings (Sara Olmo and Victor Launay) and choreographers Jorge Jauregui and Paolo Mohovich plus participation from the chef Enrique Fleischmann. ‘Harri, Orri, Ar’ (‘Stones, Paper, Scissors’) is the title of Dantzaz's latest production. It acknowledges the game as a creative territory open to the spectator's imagination. How can cuisine and the sense of taste be incorporated into dance? How can we say it absolutely all in a second of silence? How can we let our body and its movement form part of a much broader choral movement? Dantzaz invites us to discover all this and more. The Basque company that feeds a wide-ranging development group of international dancers is behind a show that once again shakes off the most conventional labels. A prop that you eat, mariachi music, circus aspects and very physical movements all fit into a work that, as in the traditional children's game, reminds us that fragility (paper) occasionally has the chance to beat force (stone). The duo formed by the creator Sara Olmo and Frenchman Victor Launay, members of Les Vikings company, choreographed the first of the three pieces to be brought to the stage, ‘History of a second’. They use it to draw us into a con-

versation. A dialogue that any of us might hold. How many things can we manage to think in just one second? How many of these ideas do we actually utter in the end? These reflections inspire a piece that conjures up the atmosphere of the most modern European circus. The second work, ‘Complete Surrender’, has an intentionally modern feel. Jorge Jauregui, its creator, proposes that we approach the borderline between the individual and the group, outlining a choreography where the dancers' bodies bump against each other and intertwine, alternately seeking out a complicated balancing point. Finally, the energy and the intensity that define Jauregui's creation combine in something very special that relies on additional complicity from Mexican Enrique Fleischmann. The award-winning chef, currently living in the Basque Country, has produced the unusual "edible prop" for ‘Harri, Orri, Ar’, bringing this montage to a close, giving the stones or papers the texture and flavour of original foodstuffs that spectators can also taste. This is an epilogue where the Italian choreographer Paolo Mohovich invites us to seduce and be seduced.

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LA COMPAÑÍA

Twelve dancers of different nationalities form part of the company, also the headquarters for an International Choreography Creation Centre that offers twelve artistic residences every year for emerging choreographers and major figures in dance. Production centre, creative laboratory and dance company are the distinguishing features that define Dantzaz, a pioneering platform in the field of moving arts dating back to 2007. Since it began, 90 dancers have formed part of this group’s history. Many of them are currently members of top international dance troupes such as the Ballet National de Marseille, the Nuremberg Ballet, the Scottish Ballet, Iceland Dance Company or Black Box Company, among others. Put together as a company promoting creation and artistic production, well-known international choreographers (Itzik Galili, Lukas Timulak, Eric Gauthier, Hilde Koch or Jacek Przybylowicz among others) and new faces in dance are invited every year to design different pieces and brief productions just for the company. Merely between 2013 and 2015, Dantzaz came up with 66 creations, confirming its enormous artistic potential. Some of these pieces have been included in productions such as ‘'Kameleoia' (with pieces from Galili and Przybylowicz), ‘Flash!’ (once again featuring choreography

routines by Galili and Przybylowicz) or ‘Áureo’ (with works by Jose San Martin, Judith Argomaniz, Christine Hassid, Timulak and Galili). Dantzaz is also a meeting place. Thanks to its International Choreography Creation Centre, the Basque platform offers 12 artistic residences every year for six international creators and six Basque creators, a laboratory formula and networking that is reinforced by working with different entities and Basque theatres such as Dantzagunea, Donostia Kultura, Tabakalera, Azkuna Zentroa and CCN Malandain-Biarritz. From the outset, Dantzaz has backed promoting and developing international projects as demonstrated by its current collaboration agreements with different events and artistic initiatives such as the Concours Choreographique Contemporaine Jeunes Compagnies “Les Synodales-Sens” (in France), and the Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival Stuttgart (in Germany). In addition, it works closely with a variety of European dance companies and creation centres such as Korzo (Netherlands), Piamonte dal Vivo (Italy) and DanceBase (United Kingdom).

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THE CREATORS

Dantzaz is once again involved with choreographers enjoying great international success such as the duo Les Vikings (Sara Olmo and Victor Launay), the Basque creator Jorge Jauregui and the Italian Paolo Mohovich.

Les Vikings

The duo known as Les Vikings, based in Belgium and comprising Sara Olmo and French creator Victor Launay, was set up in January 2014. Their first joint project was ‘Embrace’, followed by ‘Ceguera’ inspired by José Saramago’s book of the same name. In 2015, Les Vikings presented ‘Bajo los árboles’, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel ‘Across the river and into the trees’, a piece for five dancers commissioned by the Balletto di Siena. Les Vikings' professional career is the result of two very different personalities coming together. Sara Olmo, trained in classical dance at the ‘Mariemma’ Real Conservatorio de Danza and in modern dance at the ‘María de Ávila’ Conservatorio Superior de Danza in Madrid, boasts a solid career in companies such as ‘La Mov’ or ‘Cáucaso Argonautas’ and alongside prestigious creators such as Goyo Montero, Mónica Runde, Teresa Nieto or Carmen Werner. Her intense career has also been marked by her growing interest in including circus arts and their techniques in her choreographic creation. Her travelling companion in Les Vikings, Frenchman Victor Launay, studied at the CNR in Boulogne and formed part of the Aquitaine Youth Ballet between 2003 and 2005.

Since 2007, he has worked regularly with the CNC Nantes in the Claude Brumachon Company and collaborated with Christophe García, Flora Théfaine, Stephanie Thiersch, Christian Bourigault, among others. ‘Histoire d’une seconde’, his latest production, continues the brilliant path of both members of Les Vikings, as a very personal project that has won a variety of awards such as first prize in the International Choreography Competition BurgosNew York 2014 for their piece entitled ‘L'aveuglement’, or second prize in the 19th Modern Choreography Content ‘Jeunes Compagnies-Les Synodales’ for their work ‘Etreinte’.

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Jorge Jauregui Allúe

He began dancing in 1997 in the Basque Country. He worked with different groups and companies in Euskadi and in Barcelona (Damián Muñoz) before moving to Brussels to work with ‘Última Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus’ from 2004 to 2008. In autumn 2009, working with Lieve Meeussen, he created and performed ‘Nachtevening’, directed by Inne Goris and produced by LOD, Gent, Belgium. Jorge Jáuregui regularly gives workshops based on the physical and choreographic vocabulary

from ‘Última Vez/Wim Vandekeybus’. In 2009, he founded the 'Ember' artistic platform along with Laura Aris to find his own voice in the world of dance. He has been working with several artists on the international scene ever since. Together, they have created the duet ‘La Era de Los Cosmonautas’, a short piece created mainly for street festivals and small theatres and in 2009, they took part in the International Contact programme run by the Conservatorio El Barco, National Dance Workshop in Costa Rica, where they put on ‘Surprised by Joy’ for twenty four dancers. In November 2010, they debuted their new show, 'Impostura', subsidised by the Basque Government Department of Culture. For this project, they worked with singer/composer Luciana Carlevaro (Nubla). He was invited alongside Arís to create shows for ZPA (Agrebacki Plesni Ansambl) in Zagreb (Croatia), Dantzaz (Basque Country) and for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts during 2011-2012.

Paolo Mohovich

Paolo began studying dance in Turin (Italy) with Sara Acquarone and continued in Cannes with

Rosella Hightower, José Ferrán and Edward Cook. He completed his training in La Havana and at Danceworks in London. As a professional dancer he has worked in Italy with the ‘Balletto di Toscana’ in Florence, directed by Cristina Bozzolini, and the ‘Ballet de Víctor Ullate’ and the Ballet de Zaragoza, directed by Mauro Galindo. In these companies, he performed the repertoire of many choreographers such as Uwe Sholtz, Williams Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Hans van Manen, among others. He began his choreography career in 1994, working with a group of colleagues from the Ballet de Zaragoz, on two occasions (1995 and 1997), winning first prize for choreography at the ‘Prix Volinine’ in Paris. In 1999, he founded the ‘Balletto dell’Esperia’ (first resident company in the Valencia Choreography Centre). In 2001, he won the Italian Choreography Prize from 'Salerno Danza' as the best emerging company in Italy. The ‘Balletto dell'Esperia’ has enriched its repertoire with works by Jacopo Godani, William Forsythe, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Eugenio Scigliano, it represented Italy at the Expo in Zaragoza 2008, at Istanbul European Culture Capital 2011 and many times on tour around France, Spain, Cyprus, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Peru.

In 2010, the company won the ‘Danza&Danza’ award for the best Italian dance show of the year for ‘Tríptico 1900’. He has produced choreography for the ‘Balletto di Toscana’ and Ballet de Zaragoza and although his work in 2012 was focussed almost entirely on his company; in the United States, he also created for the ‘’Maximum Dance Company’ in Miami and ‘Miami Contemporary Dance Company’, in addition to ‘Maggiodanza’

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(Florence Opera Ballet), ‘Agorà Coaching Project’ (Reggio Emilia), Centro Dramático de Aragón, Ballet de la Generalitat (Valencia) and soon for ‘Tulsa Ballet’ (USA). In 2012, he won the critics' award for the best Italian ‘Short Time’ choreography for the piece entitled ‘DUO II’. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the ‘Palcoscenico Danza’ Festival in Turin, working with the ‘Fundación Teatro Piemonte Europa’In 2012, he won the critics' award for the best Italian ‘Short Time’ choreography for the piece entitled ‘DUO II’. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the ‘Palcoscenico Danza’ Festival in Turin, working with the ‘Fundación Teatro Piemonte Europa’.

Enrique Fleischmann

Enrique Fleischmann began studying cookery in 1998 at the Culinary Institute of America (New York). Later, he crossed the pond to take a Master's in European Cuisine at the Aiala Catering School. After three years' training with famous chefs such as Iñaki Agirre, Karlos Arguiñano, Juan Mari Arzak and Paul Bocuse, and working as

sous-chef for seven years in Pedro Subijana's Restaurante Akelarre (in the R+D+I department), Fleischmann began a new stage in his career. Accompanied by his wife, Maialen Gereka, he took over the helm of the Restaurante Txoko Getaria (Getaria, Gipuzkoa). They turned it into a family restaurant serving up-to-date, popular food, in an attempt to respect produce, flavours and traditions. At the same time, he set up his second culinary initiative in the Hotel Iriarte Jauregia (Bidania, Gipuzkoa). The Bailara Restaurant offers innovative, cutting-edge, flavoursome food in an extraordinary setting. His hard work over these first few years got him nominated for the Emerging Chef Award 2014 at Madrid Fusión and Best Restaurant of the Year 2016 at the Más Gastronomía awards. This led to setting up Fleischmann´s Cooking Group, tackling a broad range of work in the field of cooking such as extending its work to gastro-consultancy. Since 2014, Enrique Fleischmann has been the corporate chef at Sammic in Azkoitia. He is also a teacher at the Basque Culinary Center.

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THE PIECES

HISTORY OF A

SECOND

Les Vikings (Sara Olmo and Victor Launay)

COMPLETE SURRENDER Jorge Jauregui

HARRI, ORRI, AR

(STONES, PAPER, SCISSORS) Paolo Mohovich

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HISTORY OF A

SECOND

Les Vikings (Sara Olmo and Victor Launay)

Les Vikings,the Spanish-French duo living in Belgium, have created their first piece for Dantzaz entitled ‘Historia de un segundo’, a work that recognises the influence of modern European circus in Sara Olmo and Victor Launay's choreography. ‘Historia de un segundo’ provides movement to a developing conversation. It refers to any type of conversation or dialogue we might come up with or reproduce. How many things can we think or consider in just one second? How many of these ideas do we actually utter in the end? The silence that precedes an answer, when nothing has been said yet or when the ideas, desires and doubts attempt to come out as words, takes to the stage in a choreography that is also a game of questions. What can happen in a second? Les Vikings, a duo comprising choreographers Sara Olmo and Frenchman Victor Launay, have brought us ‘Historia de un segundo’ (History of a Second) which they created during the artistic residence programme organised by Dantzaz in 2017 in which they have participated since winning the ‘Premio Dantza’ in 2015. It is promoted by the Basque company and the Malandain-Biarritz National Choreography Centre within the framework of the Choreographique Jeunes Compagnies ‘Les Synodales’ in Sens (France). Olmo and Launay's work harmonises the texture of dance with the techniques and the atmosphere

of modern circus, also making room for acrobatics or the sounds of the accordion. Choreography: Les Vikings (Sara Olmo and Victor Launay) Music: Amestoy Trio Costume: Les Vikings Lighting: Les Vikings y Alberto Arizaga Duration: 15 minutos

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COMPLETE SURRENDER (‘The contagious power of bodies in movement'’)

Jorge Jauregui

The choreographer Jorge Jauregui has produced a choral work travelling through the borderlands of the balance between the individual and the group. A clearly modern and physical work. Jorge Jaurequi emphasises that movement can be conceived as a set of physical actions. Almost in the same way as society can be interpreted from each of our individual actions. It is important, he adds, to define what you do and how you perform it, take yourself to the limit or let yourself fall into the most absolute rendition. It is almost a question of balance. And the piece that Jauregui has choreographed for Dantzaz's dancers, "Com-

plete Surrender", is based right within this borderland of balances. ‘Complete Surrender’ is an intentionally modern piece. It is a work that puts across to spectators how the group moves and builds by using the driving force of each individual. Inspired by this physical vocabulary, with inexhaustible energy, the dancers' bodies bump into each other, and interlink, alternately seeking out a point of balance, drawing these metaphors of modern society. However, faced with the energy, intensity or the force of the work’s most choral fragments, it evokes sweetness and relaxation. Perhaps, Jauregui explains, this is an attempt to "defend us from the contagious power of bodies in movement." Choreography: Jorge Jauregui Music : Borja Ramos, Mark Pritchard and Badmarsh & Shri Custome: Jorge Jauregui Lighting: Jorge Jáuregui y Alberto Arizaga Duration: 23 minutos

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HARRI, ORRI, AR (Stones, Paper, Scissors) Paolo Mohovich

‘Harri, Orri, Ar’ came to life as a project-laboratory for the Black Box Dance Company (Holstebro-Denmark), a piece that proposes that dance should be tasted through an “edible prop” designed by the prestigious chef Enrique Fleischmann. ‘Harri, Orri, Ar’ (Stones, Paper, Scissors in the Basque language) is a simple yet universal game, a game that plants its roots in a tradition with centuries of history. One element prevails over another, but not due to its force. Its power lies in its shape. Paper is more fragile than a stone and yet beats it by wrapping. This same rule and each of its nuances can be transferred to human relations and emotions. Flirting, seduction or fascination also constitutes a game that is separate from physical force. The Italian choreographer Paolo Mohovich, alma mater of the Balletto dell’Esperia, was inspired by this traditional game to bring a piece to the stage that strips back the dynamics of seduction, attraction or contact, working its way into a very special aesthetic space. The acclaimed Mexican chef, currently living in Euskadi, Enrique Fleischmann has produced an “edible prop” for the work. The team from Fleischmann´s Cooking Group has used it to include the sense of taste in the piece. Edible papers and rocks enter this polyhedral world where dance takes on an additional sense, the sense of taste. ‘Harri, Orri, Ar’ started out as a projectlaboratory for Black Box Theatre (HolstebroDenmark), where its pre-premier was held last

October. Scheduled on the line-up for an international conference on audiences and dance where they presented this choreography that, in addition to flavour and edible textures, claims ethnic nuances, the most primary roots of dance and its infinite possibilities as a game of seduction and encounter. The sound space, another of the piece’s great attractions, is nourished by work developed by Pa Ta Ka and the voice of Lucha Reyes. And for dessert, a very special opportunity for the audience, invited to try the "edible" elements created by Fleischmann. Choreography: Paolo Mohovich Cooking concepts: Enrique Fleischmann Music: Pa Ta Ka, Severiano Briseño, Manuel Esperón/Ernesto Cortazar, Gilberto Parra Costume: Paolo Mohovich, Marina Bestard Lighting: Paolo Mohovich, Alberto Arizaga Duration: 20 minutos

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"This project originates in taste and a passion to innovate. We have been able to create a meeting place for the choreographer and the chefs to be able to express their ideas and include them in an original way" Cutting edge cuisine, innovation and dance merge in a piece that explores the immense staging possibilities for cookery. Edible stones and papers made by craftsmen from Bailara Restaurant, with Jesús Mena, Nahuel Pazos, Jesús Viejo and led by Enrique Fleischmann, are transformed into essential elements of this metaphor on strength and fragility.

These elements originate in very special native ingredients to Basque cuisine such as sweet red piquillo peppers or squid ink. They are as simple as they are versatile, explain their creators, "as common as they are exquisite". The challenge facing ‘Harri, Orri, Ar’ was to incorporate these flavours into the actual discourse and the aesthetics of the choreography designed by Mohovich, managing to make it a natural extension of the piece's actual choreographic narrative. The managers of Fleischmann´s Cooking Group explain that both edible papers and stones have existed in cutting-edge cuisine for a few years, but they emphasise that the relevant aspect here is visualising how these elements could form part of a modern dance performance. The work does not stop there. The audience has the chance to try these unusual gastro-creations at the end of the show. Ingredients: Pimientos de piquillo y tinta de chipirón Cooking concepts: Enrique Fleischmann, Jesús Mena, Nahuel Pazos y Jesús Viejo

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