【Europe】El Conde de Torrefiel
“La posibilidad que desaparece frente al paisaje (Possibilities that dissapear before a landscape)”
30 Oct, Wed 14:00/18:00
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre East
"History, events, and life, flowing away, turning its back to life. A keen inquiry into “Daily life” and “Entertainment”
Men who lie naked in front of the Berlin holocaust memorial… what have they gathered here for?
“Possibilities that disappear before a landscape” is a theatre piece that is meant to be read and observed. In an empty space, fragments of stories set in 10 European cities are told through words on a screen and narration. 4 performers appear, and sometimes joyfully, sometimes with a sense of boredom, engage in activities that can seem unrelated to the stories told. El Conde de Torrefiel says that the concept of “Entertainment” that covers today’s society is a new form of totalitarianism. In a world where “enjoying” something gradually becomes an obsession, the possibilities of “history”, “life”, and “events” all disappear. Just like how nature eventually erases all traces of mankind’s acts.
Conceived and devised by El Conde de Torrefiel in collaboration with the performers
Direction and dramaturgy：Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisb
Text：Pablo Gisbert
Recommender：Agnès Troly (Program Director, Festival d’Avignon, France)
El Conde de Torrefiel
El Conde de Torrefiel is a Barcelona-based project headed by Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert, whose works are the result of an oscillation between literature, visual arts and choreography, that aims to transcend the parameters of verbal language. As theatre authors, musicians, performers, and video-makers, their creations addresse the notion of imminent temporality, with as a starting point the synchronic analysis of the present, an interrogation of the possibilities of our time.
El Conde de Torrefiel intends to understand the existing connections between rationality and the meaning of things determined by language, as well as the abstraction of concepts, the imaginary and the symbolic in relation to the image. Their most recent works focus exclusively on the 21st century and on the existing relationship between the personal and the political; more precisely, between the new forms of totalitarianism and intellectual alienation, between the sense of responsibility and personal freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/condedetorrefiel/
Tanya Beyeler (Lugano, 1980)
She lives in Switzerland until the age of 20 until she moves to Spain where she gets her diploma in Drama in 2005. At first, she began to work as an actress in the mode of textual theatre, but time and experience brought her closer to dance and performance. She has studied dramaturgy and Human Sciences in Barcelona. From 2008 on she is part of the artistic team of the dance company La Veronal, directed by the choreographer Marcos Morau. In 2010, she started to create pieces with Pablo Gisbert under the name of El Conde de Torrefiel. As a dramaturge, she has worked in dance projects in Spain and Switzerland with Marcos Morau, Eugénie Rebetez, Olatz de Andrés and the collectiv Big Bouncers.
Pablo Gisbert (Ontinyent, 1982)
After studying philosophy at the University of Valencia, he choses to head studies in dramaturgy in Madrid. He got his Degree in dramaturgy in 2011 by the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona and the same year he gets the the National Accesit prize Marqués de Bradomín, for his text A cinema burns and ten people are burned. He is the dramaturgist of the dance company La Veronal since 2005 with which he won prizes as the Sebastià Guasch for new theatrical activities. In 2013 he was selected for the European dramaturgy platform Fabulamundi: playwriting Europe. Since 2010, he develops his own project with Tanya Beyeler and under the name of El Conde de Torrefiel. Due to the interest that his literature arouses, in 2015 all the texts that Pablo Gisbert wrote for the El Conde de Torrefiel were collected and published in Spanish by the publisher La Uña Rota, under the name of Mierda Bonita. In 2017 the texts of the last two pieces will be published in French by Actualités Éditions.
Credit
Conceived and devised by El Conde de Torrefiel in collaboration with the performers
Direction and dramaturgy：TanyaTanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert
Text Pablo Gisbert
Light design Octavio Más
Scenography Jorge Salcedo
Music Rebecca Praga and Salacot
Sound design Adolfo García
Choreography Amaranta Velarde
Technical director on tour Isaac Torres
With Nicolás Carbajal Cerchi, David Mallols, Nicolas Chevallier and Albert Pérez Hidalgo
Voice：Tanya Beyeler
Translators：Nika Blazer (English), Yuichiro Furuya (Japanese)
In coproduction with Festival TNT de Terrassa, Graner Espai de creació de Barcelona and El lugar sin límites /Teatro Pradillo/CDN Madrid.
With the support of Programa IBERESCENA, La Fundición de Bilbao, Antic Teatre de Barcelona, ICEC – Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Ramón LLull, INAEM – Ministerio de Cultura.
Schedule
【Date】30 Oct, Wed 14:00/18:00
【Venue】Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre East
*Performed in Spanish with Japanese and English surtitles
*Running time：70min (without intermission)
*On the day of the show, box office and doors open 40 min before show starts.
Tickets
6-performances Set ¥9,600
*Pre-release : 1 Sep, Sun 10:00 to 14 Sep, Sat 23:59
*Preschool children cannot attend the performances
*All programs other than the listed performances are free of charge, and reservations are not required (audience will enter in order of arrival)
*If you wish to attend a performance in a wheelchair, please contact the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater box-office.
http://tmt.pia.jp/ticket/festival2019.jsp
■English
http://tmt.pia.jp/ticket/festival2019_en.jsp
Venue
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0021
Tel: 03-5391-2111
2-minute walk from West Exit of Ikebukuro Station on JR lines, Tokyo Metro lines, Tobu Tojo Line, and Seibu Ikebukuro Line
*Directly accessible from Exit 2b of Ikebukuro Station underground passage
Organizers
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee[Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture(Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo)]
Contact
competition@tokyo-festival.jp
