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FIRMAMENTO
MARCOS MORAU / LA VERONAL

The photo shows two performers* seated in a small red rail vehicle on a theatre stage. The vehicle stands on curved tracks in front of a large screen. Several circular light elements are mounted at the front, while technical equipment is visible in the background.
A performer stands beside a puppet-like figure on a technical console fitted with audio equipment. A microphone, cables, and a mirror are integrated into the installation, combining stage design, object performance, and electronic devices.
Several performers occupy a stage featuring technical equipment, cables, and a projection screen. A small rail vehicle, an accordion, and suspended cable structures create a scene that combines sound, movement, and stage machinery.
Against a white background, an open technical cart with exposed wiring stands at the center. A performer extends upside down from the structure with legs raised upward, while a bundle of cables stretches across the floor toward the foreground.
The photo shows two performers* seated in a small red rail vehicle on a theatre stage. The vehicle stands on curved tracks in front of a large screen. Several circular light elements are mounted at the front, while technical equipment is visible in the background.
A performer stands beside a puppet-like figure on a technical console fitted with audio equipment. A microphone, cables, and a mirror are integrated into the installation, combining stage design, object performance, and electronic devices.
Several performers occupy a stage featuring technical equipment, cables, and a projection screen. A small rail vehicle, an accordion, and suspended cable structures create a scene that combines sound, movement, and stage machinery.
Against a white background, an open technical cart with exposed wiring stands at the center. A performer extends upside down from the structure with legs raised upward, while a bundle of cables stretches across the floor toward the foreground.

Staatstheater Darmstadt – Kleines Haus

Mi. 11.11. | 19:30 Uhr, followed by Meet the Artists Do. 12.11. | 19:30 Uhr

For everyone aged 12 and above
Duration: approx. 70 Minutes
Language: No language skills required

Tickets: 40,00 € / 33,00 € / 24,00 € / 17,00 € / 10,00 €

discounted 50%

Trailer (Vimeo)

Synopsis

The acclaimed company La Veronal creates a brilliant world in which there is a continuous interchange between reality and fantasy. In Firmamento Marcos Morau and his dancers focus on the point between being a young person and being an adult, a phase of life that is full of possibilities, expectations and uncertainties. Doors open to new worlds, rooms change their shape and characters navigate a labyrinth of memories, dreams and projections.

La Veronal’s distinctive movement language combines precise bodily images with narrative techniques from the visual arts and film. Out of fragmented gestures, mask-like characters, elegantly composed group arrangements and tableaux vivants a journey emerges through our powers of imagination, focussing our attention on our own life histories. In an age that is dominated by speed and pragmatism, Marcos Morau opens up space for fantasy and tells of the worlds that we create as children and that continue to shape our view of the present day.

This piece uses a number of stroboscopic effects that may have an effect on light-sensitive viewers.

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Credits

Idea and artistic direction: Marcos Morau
Production direction: Juan Manuel Gil Galindo
Choreography: Marcos Morau in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Àngela Boix, Jon López, Núria Navarra, Lorena Nogal, Marina Rodríguez, Shay Partush
Text: Carmina S. Belda and Pablo Gisbert
Voice-over: Victoria Macarte and Nathaniel Ansbach
Dramaturgy assistance: Mònica Almirall and Roberto Fratini
Technical direction and lighting design: Bernat Jansà
Stage manager, props and special effects: David Pascual
Technical support on tour: Mirko Zeni
Sound design and original music: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
Music: Laurie Anderson
Set design: Max Glaenzel
Costume design: Silvia Delagneau
Animated illustration: Marc Salicrú
Production and logistics: Cristina Goñi Adot and Àngela Boix
Helmets and masks making: Gadget Efectos Especiales
Puppets making: Martí Doy
Costume making: A.I.T. and Laura Garcia
Set construction: Oscar Hernandez (Ou), Jorba-Miró
Transportation: Pax 4Events

Firmamento is a La Veronal production in co-production with Grec 2023 Festival de Barcelona – Institut de Cultura de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta – Festival Internacional de Catalunya, Girona / Salt, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse, Festival Equilibrio – Fondazione Musica per Roma, the Hessian State Ballet as part of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main and the Triennale Milano. In collaboration with Graner – Fàbriques de Creació and Teatre L’Artesà.

With support from INAEM – Ministerio de Cultura de España and the ICEC – Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Photos: Albert Pons, May Zircus