Federico Vladimir and Pablo Lilienfeld: Dragón, descansa en el lecho marino
Dance. Running time: 60 min.
Dragón, descansa en el lecho marino (Dragon, rest on the seabed) is a choreographic composition for six artistic swimmers in a swimming pool, halfway between dance, sport and science fiction. The surface of the pool acts as a screen in which the fiction takes place: a fictitious, transindividual creature, dismembered and connected through the liquid, formed by the multiple subjectivity of the six swimmers. Normally, in artistic swimming competitions, the lack of smiling, loose hairs or leaning on the bottom of the pool floor are penalised by the jury.
Federico Vladimir (1983, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Pablo Llilienfeld (1981, Madrid, Spain) have been working together since 2014. In the words of the artists, 'our work has been intertwined with our relationship, starting from intimacy to explore representations of collectivity that question hegemonic ways of belonging and narrating ourselves. Using speculative fiction as a tool for "making world", we create spaces where the domestic, the marginal, the playful and the desire meet. We like to think of the queer artistic family-community that we both form as a plastic entity: it contracts and expands to include relatives, collaborators, friends, lovers, viruses, ghosts and other companions. Throughout this research on trans-individual narratives, we have approached disciplines as diverse as artistic swimming and role-playing games'.
A project by Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir
Performers and co-creators: Andrea Fernández Botelho, Julia Echeberría, Andrea Fuertes, Blanca Gómez, Carolina Pino and Irene Toledano
Original music: Pablo Lilienfeld
Costume designer: Roi Pardo
External adviser: Alessandro Sciarroni
Coach: Alicia Sanz
This programme may be subject to changes due to external circumstances, such as adverse weather conditions or force majeure.
Free entry (subject to capacity).