Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
BOGOTÁ
Andrea Peña & Artists (Montréal)
January 31 + February 1, 2025 | 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St, Vancouver)
Tickets on sale November 20.
Visceral, transgressive and magnetic, BOGOTÁ constructs a brutalist landscape out of choreography inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage. With striking intensity, nine performers chronicle transformations between chaos and rebirth, incarnating the tensions of ever-unfolding and turbulent histories.
Offering a raw, physical experience of mutation and ultimately resurrection, BOGOTÁ delves into inherited mythologies in order to consider how origins are embodied and mortality is expressed through the endless cycles of existence and death.
This powerful work employs movement as a vehicle for storytelling, embarking on an esoteric journey through a universe charged with magic realism. It uncovers passageways to transcendence, honoring the rebellion of deviant bodies and paying tribute to resilience within the post-colonial era.
A Note from the Choreographer
"We humbly invite you into our complex and multi-layered universe where long time collaborators of AP&A, and above all profoundly special human beings, courageously confront and undergo inner transformations of their own internal archetypes. As a Colombian immigrant it is an honor to share with you this work so close to my heritage and my land; incarnated by non-Colombian artists who commit their vulnerable humanity as an offering to the resilience and emancipation of many communities within our post-colonial era. BOGOTÁ, in its pluriversality, hopes to resurrect universal sentiments that touch on our capacity to be altered, to be forever changed by transformative mutations of ourselves. We offer a space for the sacred and the profane to co-exist through the pain and celebration of what it means to be human. We invite you to embark and surrender into this ecosystem, as a co-participant in the journey of the present." - Andrea Peña
Cast + Collaborators Credits
Artistic Direction: Andrea Peña
Choreography: Andrea Peña in collaboration with the artists
Interpreters: Nicholas Bellefleur, Charlie Prince, Jo Laïny Trozzo-Mounet, Jean-Benoît Labrecque, Jontae McCrory, Erin O’loughlin, Francois Richard, Frédérique Rodier, Chi Long
Lighting Design: Hugo Dalphond
Sound Composition: Debbie Doe
Dramaturgy: Angelique Willkie
Artistic Advisor: Helen Simard
Costumes: Jonathan Saucier and Polina Boltova
Scenography: Jonathan Saucier and Andrea Peña
Stage Manager: Conrad St-Gelais
Visuals: Bobby Leon, Felix Godbout Delavaud, Antoine Ryan / Kevin Calero, Andrea Peña
Graphic Design: Rico Rica
Producers: Polina Boltova and Isaïe Richard
Tour Manager: Isaïe Richard
Co-producers: Agora de la Danse, Danse Danse, International Festival of Contemporary Dance: La Biennale di Venezia
Agent de développement: Mickaël Spinnhirny, Agence Mickaël Spinnhirny
Andrea Peña & Artists have received support from: International Festival of Contemporary Dance: La Biennale di Venezia, Agora de la Danse, Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil Des Arts et Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Danse Danse, Maison de la Culture Notre Dame de Grace.
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Photos: Direction & Photography by Kevin Calero, Antoine Ryan.