INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IMPULSES 2011

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IMPULSES 2011

DANCE AND BODY TODAY

CATALONIA, GUEST OF HONOR

Date:  Since april 28^th to  may 8^th

Place:Teatro Nacional La Castellana, Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo, Teatro Leonardus, Casa del Teatro Nacional, Teatro Varasanta y Teatro Estudio. .

Rate: Since 22.000 pesos  to  $85.000 pesos

More info in: www.teatronacional.com.co

Organized by the National Theatre and the Foundation L'Explose, there comes the International Festival of Contemporary Dance: IMPULSES 2011. 21 companies of 7 countries will show the boldest, innovator and avant-gardist of the performance, the dance, the dance - theatre and the video-dance that today is danced in the world. There will be 11 days where big international choreographers like the French-algerian who lives in Germany Samir Akika, the Spanish performer Sonia Gómez, the Canadian Marie Chouinard and the French Andréa Sitter, between others, will alternate with the colombian riskiest dancers and creators. Six of Bogota rooms will receive this vibrant programming that also includes workshops, conferences, classes, meetings with directors and other attractions of this meeting, which comes this way to his second version, and promises to be repeated and to be extended up until it turns into one of the big world appointments of the contemporary dance.

Erre que erre is a group of creators resided in Barcelona and active since 1996. In 2009 they created "Avatar", with which the group penetrates into the territory of the interactivity between designed image to the computer and body in live."Avatar" is the result of the collaboration between the choreographer and ballerina Mariangeles Angulo and the visual artist Roman Torre.

"Avatar" is a very innovative and visual proposal, and of great refinement in the investigation of the interaction of a body in movement over a virtual and interactive space. Along the spectacle, the ballerina faces situations and spaces with which she interacts and takes her decisions of process. "Avatar" has as interpretive - conceptual premise, the fact of representing and playing in scene with our own avatar, which is the virtual representation of ourselves. "Avatar" is an interactive dance solo, in which the interpreter is in constant dialog with the software, responsible of the different narrative preprogrammed events; they react on the basis of the displacements, attitudes and gestures, by means of the projection and detection of the camera, that sends the signals of position to the computer, in charge of processing the information and re-sending to the scenic space in real time.