Institut Ramon LLull

Societat Doctor Alonso's ANARCHY featured at the 31st Performance Mix Festival in New York City

Performing.  New York, 10/06/2017

Well known in Spain as performance pioneers, Catalan company Societat Doctor Alonso brings the New York premiere of ANARCHY, an experiment in chaos and order, a performance where the audience takes part by playing guitars from their seats. Semolina Tomic, the performer, executes the choreography that explores the musicality of movement as the piece navigates control, chaos, order, and the question of who “owns” art. Societat Doctor Alonso combines dance and theater in creating a performance language fundamentally concerned with displacement.




ANARCHY is an experiment between chaos and order. Obviously, the experience is not safe and it is very complex. It could be summarized as, "if you want silence, you have to work it out," or "do what you want." This takeover is not easy. From our birth we are linked to our circumstances and dependent on others to get things as vital as food or heat.  is an experiment between chaos and order. Obviously, the experience is not safe and it is very complex. It could be summarized as, "if you want silence, you have to work it out," or "do what you want." This takeover is not easy. From our birth we are linked to our circumstances and dependent on others to get things as vital as food or heat. 

Societat Doctor Alonso also depends on public theaters and governments to run their projects. This is a social interdependence, but neither the public nor the theaters or the government become their bosses. The problem is that the government is made to command, to manage and govern our actions. Art is an homogeneous space to experiment or play with certain states, certain assumptions. We would like to take this piece to the spirit of live-art, where experimentation is the essential fact, not as an act but as an aesthetic fact, the act of going to theater. The public has the word, the noise and the silence. Each one is responsible. By the sound it will be clear that the absence of sound and the absence of action is also a choice.

Societat Doctor Alonso, directed by Tomas Aragay (theater director and dramaturge) and Sofia Asencio (dancer and choreographer) has constructed a language which has found one of its key factors in the concept of movement by placing anything outside of its place, area or 'own space' in order to investigate how this movement modifies language with respect to both its constituent grammar as well as with respect to the reading made by an observer. This involves moving in order to reveal something.

This action of movement has shown itself to be an efficient tool for creating areas of poetic discourse which question our 'standardized' understanding of reality.

 

31st Performance Mix Festival

June 8-11, 2017

University Settlement 184 Eldridge St., NYC

Tickets: here

 

Societat Doctor Alonso

ANARCHY

Friday June 9

10:00-11.30am: Breakfast Mix: Meet the International Artists

11:30-2:00pm: Internal Playwright: A Workshop

Saturday June 10

7:00pm Noise and silence: the government doesn’t own us!

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