Dance to death - Grec'16

Alberto Velasco

A site-specific creation about the "losers", especially in the world of dance and theater, part of one of those contests resistance in which couples had to dance without resources to exhaustion.

Director Alberto Velasco and premiered in 2015 ' Danzad damn', a piece that played on stage in the United States during the time of the Great Depression and in which couples without resources struggled desperately to win a cash prize. Now, Velasco delves into the proposal and uses actors, actresses, dancers unemployed to interpret a choreographic piece that, beyond the simple reproduction of those contests, pays tribute to the so - called "losers", those who fall by the wayside and fail to achieve their goals. It does so with special focus on the world of dance and theatrical performance, even though it is a beautiful profession it is hard and cruel, in which only 20 percent of applicants can work and performers have to wait to be chosen by directors or casting directors, hence becoming mere spectators of their own victory or defeat.

Velasco's proposal takes the form of a site-specific creation (designed for a particular space) that part of Horace McCoy's novel ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ in which director Sydney Pollack made a film of the same title (released in Spanish as 'Danzad, danzad, malditos’ 1969). They have converted the choreography in a way where few actors and dancers take time off work and therefore, have a unique creative energy and are in the best possible conditions to tell a story like this.