Disappear - 2009

(2009) – app. duration: 25’
Original name:
‘Disappear - 2009’

Premiered in:
Teatro San Martín (Tucumán, AR), on December 3rd, 2009
Performed in:
Teatro San Martín (Tucumán, AR - December 2009)

To construct history daily implies revisiting the past. It's called memory.
This work of art is an event in which people meet with the excuse of talking about disappearances. This work of art is an event in which people discuss their history with the excuse of meeting. This work will say that there are no things of which it cannot speak. This work will say obvious things and will try to remind us this history is everyone's. This work will contribute to the cause of memory.
This dance in another space.
This movement in between the personal and the political.

The work presented at Teatro San Martín, in Tucumán, was the result of a 2 weeks artistic laboratory conducted by choreographer Pablo Fontdevila in collaboration with the dancers from the company Ballet Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Tucumán. The starting point was the word Disappear. With diverse strategies many connotations to the word were explored, particularly in relation to the associations the last dictatorship in Argentina made infamous during the '70s.

This piece was comissioned by dance company Ballet Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Tucumán, and created in residency in San Miguel de Tucumán during November 2009. The piece was created under the frame of the Project Disappear.

choreography and direction: Pablo Fontdevila
created in collaboration with and performed by Ana Andole, Karina Ávalos, Soledad Caamaño, Mónica Castro Lorca, Marta Díez, Walter Ferreira, Paula Fuensalida, Horacio Moya, Alfredo Salomon and Silvina Damia (Ballet Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Tucumán - artistic director: Patricia Sabbag)

lighting design: Pablo Fontdevila
costumes: Pablo Fontdevila and performers
photos, projections, graphic design: Sr. Mara

produced by Trimurti (p)
co-produced by Ballet Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Tucumán

special thanks to Coque Fontdevila and Silvio Colombo