Kebo (map of the pell d’un cos) is, according to its author, Vero Cedonya (Barcelona 1976), a choreography that explores collective scars. A project that speaks of the need for collaboration in different spheres and that moves between the memory of the individual and the collective body.
“In many times and by recent events, we have been told that the body and any hint of it must be stifled, that pleasure and pain must not be exposed and that the skin must be the last margin, the edge, where the Subject must contain his sensitivity. That’s why with Kebo we want to give back to the body the value it has and rescue it from oblivion and automation,” he says about his own creation which, co-produced by the Mercat de les Flors, premieres this weekend (May 24 to 26). in the house of Barcelona dance.
The title of this piece corresponds to the name of the brush used in the Japanese kintsugi technique, which consists of repairing fractures in ceramic pieces with a resin varnish mixed with gold or silver powder. Thus, it is proposed that breakages and repairs are part of the history of an object and that they should be shown instead of hidden. Old parts repaired by this method are more valued than parts that will never break. The work is based on this concept to highlight scarred and wounded bodies, because they have a lot to say.
Seven performers, two of them with intellectual functional diversity, make up the piece, who are joined on stage by the author of the music herself, Adele Madau, who will perform it live.
Vero Cendoya combines her career as a performer, teacher, illustrator and choreographer. In 2008 she created her own dance-theater company. He has collaborated with artists from theater, painting, drag, music, poetry and football, focusing especially on social issues: projects on breast cancer, autism, patricide, social inclusion… His works have been represented in various festivals and theaters of all the world. For a few years now, she has combined artistic and social projects that work with people with intellectual diversity and vulnerable groups.
This co-production by Cia. Vero Cendoya, Mercat, El Canal-Salt and Circuito Claps SpettacoloDalVivo, is carried out within the framework of Europe Beyond Access II, a European project co-financed by the EU Creative Europe program of which Mercat is a partner .
