VISUAL WORK FOR MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
TEC DE MONTERREY I NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS I MEXICO
FLYING FISH OVER MEXICO
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE BY PEDRO VALIENTE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY EVELIA KOCHEN
FLYING FISH OVER MEXICO (2004-2005, Spain/Mexico, 60min) visual thetaer/butoh dance
Flying Fish Over Mexico (Peces voladores sobre México) is a production by Flying Fish Work (Spain) with the support of the National Center for the Arts (Centro Nacional de las Artes, CNA) through the National Theater School and Salvador Novo Theater (Escuela Nacional de Teatro, Teatro Salvador Novo) in Mexico City in 2005, and Tecnológico de Monterrey University in Mexico State in 2004.
FLYING FISH OVER MEXICO
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE BY PEDRO VALIENTE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY EVELIA KOCHEN
FLYING FISH OVER MEXICO (2004-2005, Spain/Mexico, 60min) visual theater/butoh dance
SYNOPSIS Flying Fish Over Mexico is a multimedia performance that explores the origins of humans and the Mexican identity. The story follows two parallel plots. The love of Gondwana and Laurasia, the two continents in which the original megacontinent Pangea split up. And views of the heart of Mexican culture. As a physical mirror of both: Butoh, Japanese avant-garde dance, explores their ultimate meaning: the search of love inside each person and the search of a common identity in the soul of a nation.
CAST Endless Lovers: Leopoldo Rivera, María Sandoval I White Dancers: Denise Barber, Rolando Martínez, Nadia Zúñiga, Adrián Hernández, Rodrigo Leal, César Rodríguez, Francia Castañeda, Sergio Solís I Wise Children: Roberto Castelló Lima, Tamara Henaine I Original Souls: Rafael Furlong, Rosario Dávila CREW Director/writer/producer: Pedro Valiente I Choreographer: Evelia Kochen I Producer: Guadalupe Lima I AD: Leopoldo Rivera I Assistant choreographer: Adrián Ladrón I Stage coordinators: Óscar Pérez, Griselda Pérez I Stage assistant: Aaroon Buendía I Costume / Makeup: Flying Fish Work I Technical director: Jesús Treviño I Technical coordinator: Sue Ellen Bernal I Camera operators: Juan Carlos Bonilla, Víctor Manuel Vega, Liliana Cortés I Lighting: Miguel Ángel Tavera I Visual coordinator: Rodrigo del Campo I Video: Bruno Schauwecker I Sound coordinator/public relations: Luís García
FROM THE DIRECTOR "What is the connection between Pangea, Mexico, and Asia? The early history of continents and their migrations lays that the first settlers of America arrived through the Bering Strait from Asia. therefore, we (freely) imagine a fantastic world where American pueblos meet their Oriental essence. And we also (freely) set that all these events happen in a very specific moment in the history of the Universe. Exactly in times before eagles and snakes [symbols of the Mexican flag]. Magical times where flying fish glided over Mexico. Founding times where Mexican people started to look at themselves with innocent eyes. To dream of the future. Endless Lovers, Gondwana and Laurasia, rebirth through time and space into men and women who don't stop loving each other. Wise Children, maybe indigo, light from their blazing blue their never-ending flow of encounters and separations. White Dancers portray the cycle of birth/life/death through Butoh dance in its radical expression of the most intimate being. Original Souls represent pre-Hispanic visions of the genesis of Mexico and human life." --PV
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