The Ciclo Colón Contemporáneo inaugurated its season with the installation-work-show Sun Seawinner at the Venice Biennale 2019.
It is the first time that the Colón Fábrica, located in the La Boca district, offers itself as a venue for a theatrical performance, with its 7,500 square meter space, where it conserves and exhibits theatrical productions, props and curtains from different works the seasons . An ideal space to host work of Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (direction and scenography), Vaiva Granite (booklet), Lina Lapelite (composition and musical direction) that never stops touring the world.
for three hours, the work repeats itself cyclically. The first call is at 5pm, audiences come in in batches and stay for 50 minutes, and it all ends at 9pm.
But in each repetition the work is not the same, because THE performers change their actions.
On a beach, in La Boca
visitors see a beach with real sand and bright summer light, populated with vacationers, lounging in bathing suits on their deck chairs and colored towels. Some drink mate, while others read a book or look at their cell phone; some children play with water and sand; a woman weaves; one couple plays paddle tennis and another plays cards; a dog sniffs the elements of the scene.
The beach is observed from above, with no seats assigned, the audience is suggested to circulate along the walkways that surround the stage, which is below.
The heat that doesn’t stop in the city, and no air conditioning in the room, he adds an element of extra realism.
There is no dramatic progression in the various stories – some about the climate crisis, privilege, the exhaustion of a working life, others more surreal – which are juxtaposed and told through songs as beautiful as they are simple, with consonant and hypnotic harmonies, and repetitive chords. Choral moments are interspersed with various warnings.
The performers, 14 opera soloists mixed with local artists, succeed in the challenge of singing while lying down.
pre-recorded sounds
There are no instruments, the sound of a pre-recorded synthesizer (heard through the speakers) lets the beautiful voices shine with full sonorities that convey a deep humanism.
Source: Clarin
