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Coreografía y dirección: Xie Xin. Música: Jiang Shaofeng, Yin Yi. Intérpretes: Xie Xin, Hu Shengyuan, Liu Xuefang, Zhang Yin, Qian Min, Tu Youzhen, Liu Xue, Wang Qi, Ma Siyuan. Lugar y fecha: LaFact de Terrassa (15/III/2024)
Key questions have the same slow development as life. What are we? Where we come from? From in asks it from what is unfinished in the title itself. For Chinese director, choreographer and performer Xie Xin, the answer is hidden in the ideogram that means “human” in the Chinese alphabet. This sign is shaped like an Indian tippie, two curved lines that converge upward in what looks like a capital Greek Y with a short base turned upside down or even a Brossian A. Its undulating shapes provide shelter, create an interior, at the same time that, flexible, they also connote the adaptable capacity of our species to give human measure to everything. The shape of the ideograms is not at all innocent in the Chinese alphabet, if we take into account the so-called Mironian evolution of its signs from ancient hieroglyphic images. Figurative, conceptual, therefore.
Nor is the dramaturgy of From in abstract. The choreography presents few rhythmic explosions as a climax, but most of the time it slowly grows and blossoms before our eyes from a wide singularity of small nuances that connect the performers again and again in accordance with the central idea. A very slow plié of the knees with the body backwards, and then recovering verticality, concentrates the mixture of fragility and strength that is the hallmark of his movements in representation of the human. Due to its very slowness, interpretation requires control, precision, calculation, despite the naturalness and warmth with which it must be delivered. Objective achieved.
The company, which is touring France, was highly applauded, which La Fact has taken advantage of. Unique performance in all of Spain. The first time he passes through Catalonia. The first contemporary Chinese company to arrive in Terrassa. And with a well-known and celebrated choreographer in Paris. Can you ask for more? LaFact de Terrassa is to dance what Montaña Alta de Girona is to theatre. It is time to recognize your uniqueness.
