QUISO NEGRO

But were the danger is, also grows the saving power
F. Hölderlin


Quiso negro explores the idea of death through movement by the ritual use of acoustic, kinetic and iconographic patterns.

It is inspired by tarantism, a ritual born in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages that believes in the symbolic bite of a spider and the performance of a choreic-musical practice to expel the poison from the body of the affected person. The work draws on the iconographic and symbolic universe of the ritual, such as the mirror, the swing and the coloured ribbons, to approach the concept of death, moving through a wide spectrum of scenarios of physical possession and catharsis.

The work proposes a rereading of the ritual in two acts to re-signify its practices based on choreography and music. The first one goes through the preparation of the rite and the second one concentrates on the physical exhaustion based on complex rhythms inspired by the pizzica salentina (the traditional dance of the Salento area).

Quiso negro speaks of death in each one, and can be seen as a journey through its vitalistic aspects: a katabasis, a festive descent.

Premi de Dansa Institut del Teatre 2023
Premiere Festival Grec Barcelona
23th and 24th July 2024
Teatre Ovidi Montllor - Mercat de les Flors


Coproduction Festival Grec 2024, Institut del Teatre, Mercat de les Flors, Generalitat de Catalunya

With the support of La Piconera, La Caldera, Graner i Fabra i Coats

Idea, direction: Ester Guntín

Choreography:  Ester Guntin with the collaboration of the performers

Performers: Marina Capel, Anna Climent, Marti Forcada, Glòria Garcia, Héctor Puigdomènech, Isaac Verdura

Light design: Andreu Fàbregas - Isabel Ruiz del Moral

Sound design and music composition: Nil Ciuró - Uge Pañeda

Scenography: Pol Roig 

Costume design: Joan Ros

Dramaturgy: Paula Errando

Direction assistant: Aida Mayoral 

Choreography assistant: Héctor Puigdomènech

Production: Muntsa Roca - Lilabrick

External view: Quim Palmada - Lipi Hernàndez

Sound design and music composition 15’: Clara Aguilar

Images 15’ version, Mercat de les Flors, december 2023 by Jordi Vidal

Promo images: Lola Errando

Performance photographies: Pol Rebaque

Thanks to Clara Aguilar, Rafael Argullol, Mariona Moranta, Joan Morey, Roberto Fratini, Natalia Barraza.