Premiere April 21-23rd 2004 - Le Quartz, Brest, France. Duration: 70min Written and Directed: La Ribot. Direction Assistants: Juan Domínguez, Corinne García and Tania Arias Winogradow. Lighting Design: Daniel Demont. Set and Costumes: Karine Vintache and La Ribot. Costumes - gifts by: Paulette Dynalix, Virginie Le Gall, Véronique Gébly. Production Team: Bibi Serafim, Jo Hughes. Thanks to Phillis François, Maïwenn Le Gall and all the staff at Le Quartz, Brest. Technical Director on tour: Erik Houllier. Production Office: Parano Fondation. Management: Maria Carmela Mini. Produced by La Ribot, 36 Gazelles, London. La Ribot is an Artsadmin associated artist. Coproduction: Le Quartz de Brest, France (Creation/Residence); Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Festival d’Automne, Paris, France; La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Switzerland.
Espontáneos all over the world: Espontáneos all over the world: 2002 Centre Chorégraphique, Montpellier : Hini Benali, Ondine Cloez, Jean-Baptiste Durier, Tania Arias Winogradow Yannick Guedon, Alia Hamdam, Typhaine Heissat, Lonais Jallais, Nam-Kyung Kim, Waldemar Kretchkovsky, Achelene (Vanina Parolin), Caroline Polge, Frederic Poullande, Nachid Sayet, Leticia Falkin, Julie Gardel. Choreodrome, The Place, Londres : Luciana Botelho, Laura D’italia, Maeva Cunci, Monica Garcia, Olivier Ferec, Corinne Garcia, Michael Phelippeau, Virginie Thomas, Patricia Woltmann, Nikki Hamlin, Bettina Carpi, Rachel Gomme, Jiva Parthipan, Esther Hoyuelos, Helga Stomberger, Andrea Molnar, Audrey Dancoisne, Jonathan Megaw, Jane Munro, Ramon Chamadoira, Ande Lachaise, Albane Aubry, Rudi Van der Merwe, Inka Hella. 2003 La Bâtie Festival de Genève : Alejandra Sol, Aline Garance Delaunay, Amandine Denain, Florent Delval, Angelique Favre, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Annika Dind, Arantxa Martinez, Audrey Gaisan, Barbara Schlitter, Caroline Dommen, Dominique Rey, Dorian Rossel, Emmanuel Hagmann, Francoise Boillat, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Jeanne Graff, Joël Vacheron, Katy Hernan, Laurence Morisot, Louise Hanmer, Patrick Devantéry, Patrick Steff, Pauline Wassermann, Saskia Edens, Sergio Frazao, Valérie Huguenin. Casa Hoffman, Curitiba, Brésil : Olga Neneve, Marcilene Santilli, Michelle Moura, Stephany Schuwinski, Andrea Serrato, Andrea Obrecht, Vera Nevanlinna, Rocio Infante, Isabel Ferreira, Cristiane Bouger, Fernando Nascimento, Grazianni Canalli, Ricardo Marinelli, Pablo Colbert. 2004 Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève : Christophe Balleys, Vincent de Florio, Nathalie Erhardt, Simon Favre, Claire Goodyear, Samantha Granger, Joanna van Leckwyck, Virginie Morales, Fabienne Radi, Nadja Ramseier, Daniel Rosenthal, Florence Vuilleumier, Joanne Wehrli. Artsadmin, Londres : Alexa Reid, Ana Luisa Drummond, Ana Sophia Gonçalves, Arantza Vilas, Carlos Cortes, Catherine Hoffmann, Claire Blundell Jones, Clare Calvert, Diksha Parmar, Eddie Ladd, Eleanor Williams, Geoff McGarry, Isabel Brito Farre, Jane Pitt, Katherina Radeva, Katherine Hymers, Laura Riazuelo, Laura Plitt, Liana Potila, Ilana Gorban, Lucila Malenky, Marina Serrano Gomez, Meline Danielewicz, Nana Lyholt-Hansen, Sarah Buist, Tasmin Clarke, Theron Schmidt, Victoria Macarte, Viktoria Knoblauh, Will Hudson,Eleanor Margolies, Laura Auraujo, Emma Eastwood, Maria Ana Botelho Neves, Bueb Fanny, Agnes Czerna, Rachel Sweeney, Chris Deleon, Lucila Malenky, Jonathan Megaw, Marine Broise, Mathilde Laroque, Gwenn Tregoat, Lucille Power. Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo : Vicente Santos, Hamlet Bodden, Mónica Lozano, Isabel Spencer, Jochy Muñoz, Jorge Mendoza, Cecilia Camino, Andreina Jiménez, Soraya Gallardo, Marily Gallardo, Mari Carmen Rodríguez, Orestes Amador, Francis Taylor, Carlos Ortiz, Pascal Meccariello, Fermín Ceballos, Pavel Marcano, Awilda Polanco, Henry Mercedes, Claudio Rivera, Viena González, Guillermo Liriano, Ilia Aponte, Elvis Polanco, Derisée de León, Mónica Despradel, Juan Rodríguez, Esther Penalba, Nancy Vizcaíno, Mari Luz Acosta, Rafael Álvarez. Premiere, Avril 2004 Le Quartz, Brest : Valeria Alonso, Murielle Astier, Nicolas Bénamara, Aude Bérard, Gaëlle Bossard, Florent Clause, Tanguy Cochennec, Safya Cotonnec, Nadège Courant, Chrystel Crouzet, Alissa De Saint Laurent, Eric Defaix, Caroline Deonos, Anne Drenou, Richard Duval, Marie Fontaine, Marie Gales, Valérie Grman, Emerick Guezou, Maud Guillois, Johanna Guillou, Marine Guyomar, Marion Gwenn, Nathalie Hauwelle, Gwenola Joinneau, Linda Le Baut, Lena Le Tiec, Francisco Leiva, Maya Lestrat, François-Nicolas L’Hardy, Emma Martinasso, Sabine Pichon, Coline Pichon, Claire Polard, Emmanuelle Premel-Cabic, Aurélie Quéré, Céline Serano, Karine Tini, Laurent Védrine, Annie Vignault, Dominique André, Christiane Banks, Vincent Flouch, Odile Blouin, Laurence Bonel, Marina Damestoy, Anne-Béatrice De Torcy, David Dekadjevi, Frantz Desbureaux, Matthieu Dutertre, Mélanie Gambie, Adeline Garcia, François Geslin, Emilie Jouan, Mehdi Lahlou, Nathalie Lajarrige, Leila Laouabdia, Katell Lardaux, Nicolas Le Brenne, Céline Le Jeloux, Mady Le Roux, Sarah Lixaerde, Corinne Looten, Yvain Lucas, Toinon Maguerez, Séverine Malherre, David Marzin, Brice Mathey, Laëtitia Mantec, Philippe Prigent, Nadège Renard, Nicolas Respriget, Delphine Varet, Marc-Olivier Veilhan, Paula Villarroel. Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto : Mariana Rocha, Alberto Magno, Elisabete Magalhães, Ana Vargas, Daniel Pinto, Loup Abramovici, Catarina Felgueiras, Daniela Ferreira, Regina Guimarães, Miguel Bonneville, Vanda Cerejo, Sofia Dias, Absinte Abramovici, Sofia Bragança, José Eduardo Pereira, Andreia Antunes, António Quaresma, Susete Rebelo, Renata Portas, Ana Moraes, Paulo Narciso, Alexandre Ribeiro da Silva, Salete Moreira, Natércia Magalhães, Susana Queiroz, Maria Teresa Mota, Antonio Melo, Fátima Costa, António Preto. La Bâtie Festival de Genève : Aline Delaunay, Hélène Göhring, Lisa Kiwi, Catherine Favre, Véronique Fouré, Max Perraud, Nadja Ramseier, Christine Hilfiker, Raphaëlle Renken, Dominic Vuichard, Béatrice Deslarzes, Annika Dind, Sandra Galan, Isabelle Rappard, Agnes Bolle, Fatima N’Doye, Philippe Weissbrodt, Matthieu Urfer, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Angélique Favre, Leslie Thomas-Gérard, Yasmine Hugonnet, Carole Roulier, Daphnée Ronlin, Joana Brandaò, Michelle Gurtner, Aurélie Mertenat. Panorama, Rio de Janeiro : Leticia Bragança dos Santos Ribeiro Amorim, Jacqueline Calazans, Aline de Almeida Machado, Ananda Fabres Kavan, Ondrèj Kavan, Frederico E. Rezende Taylor, Lucas Rodrigues de Castro, Luciano Prado da Silva, Amauri de Souza Martins (Kako), Carlos Eduardo Passos da Silva, Paula Guimarães, Adriana de Queiroz Medeiros, Maria Isabel Franco, Vania Maria Gomez de Souza, Juliana Luna de Moura, Fabiana Eboli Corrêa dos Santos, Fernanda Augusta Amitay Kutwak, Fernanda Temponi, Flavia Tenorio, Carla Branco, Daniela de Oliveira Mattos, Flavia Maria de Souza Vilaça, Giovanna de Almeida Assis, Ione Franco Vicente, Mário Passos Pereiro Filho, Michael Lopes de Lima. Festival d’Automne à Paris : Fouad Abbou, Agathe Barbier, Dorothée Charles, Marie-Laure Cozette, Arnaud De Rasilly, Dominique Delahaye, Florent Delval, Amandine Denain, Fabrice Dupre, Line Fontana, Jean-Pascal Gans, Romain Guillet, Mireille Guimbretière, Geneviève Houdent, Hervé Julien, Georges Jumarie, Francis Lavainne, Maïwenn Le Gall, Laura Lozano, François Malek, Sandrine Mini, Céline Mouchet, Blandine Paploray, Mario Pinto Ferreira, Victor Ramos, Magdalini Theodossopoulou, Gala Vanson, Amar Zeroual. 2005 Festival CDC Toulouse : Eric Afergan, Aurélie Antilogus, Thierry Arosteguy, Cathy Azen, Louna Bécel, Emmanuel Benoît, Cyril Caille, Alexis Gorbatchevsky, Patrice Guitard, Monique Joulé, Sylvette Labat, Jérôme Legoff, Maha Merad, Magdala Miquel Roqellas, Aya Meteaut, Simon Nadal, Chérif Najjari, Olivier Nespoulous, Ti Nguyen, Cécilia Olabarrieta, Emmanuel Pineaud, Amandine Ronzier, Sylvette Salles-Fuster, Chantal Valmary, Claudine Vassas, Marylou Vriz, Cyril Zecchin. Marseille Objectif Danse : Paule Aglietti, Marie-Pierre Aiello, Georges Bendayan, Isabelle Bertet, Françoise Binet, Sylvie Capulli, Michel Chiche, Josiane Cruciani, Christine Deunf, Annie Dupont, Hèlène Froment, Danielle Gueguen, Eric Jean, Sabiha Kada Fattorelli, Florence Lafaix, Dominique Maroto, Antoinette Martorana Toufet, Marie Millot, Georges Millot, Nicole Paoli-N’Guyen, Mariline Revest-Sommer, Cyril Sabattier, Guy Sroka, Raymond Torregrosa, Euripide Vakalis, Emile Yebdri, Saïd Zahraoui. Dance Umbrella, London : Jane Bates, Eve Bonser, Sarah Buist, Andre Castro, Valerie Coates, Sylvia Curtis, Alexandra Drozdowska, Frances Gibbons, Lizzie Hall, Susan Hart, Olwen Hawkins, Nelly Ivanova, Chris Lamb, Jane Loftin, Dan McCabe, Ronnie McGrath, Katya Mons-Rushby, Maria Moran, Ronnie Muir, Teresa O’Shaughnessy, Kym O’Shaughnessy, Valerie Ann Pointer, Fiona Rogers, Pilar Sanchez, Salome Smeaton-Russell, Fran Smitherman, Louis Sydney, Felicity Vernon, Linda Westmoreland. 2006 New Territories Winter School, Glasgow : Grace Mahoney, Clare McCann, Myra Fulton, Adele Patrick, Anne Kelly, Mary Bendall, Aileen Blower, Floss Ross, Edward Dickson, Susan MacAskill, Charlene O’Neil, Edie. Nottdance06, Nottingham : Dave Atkins, Anne Bentley, Jet Black, Nicolas Cairns, Sue Conduit, Pam Caine, Christopher Cox, Peter Cox, Peter Dance, Paula Dixon, Keith Dorn, John England, Chrisandra Harris, Vivienne Leach, Joy Mills, Kathleen Price, Nicola Price, Catherine Shaw, Christopher Shilings. Tanzquartier, Vienne : Maria Antonietta Bianchi, Ingrid Drossos-Stuller, Herbert Freund, Sylvia Frühwirt, Silvia Gruber, Andrea Haindl, Christine Ingruber, Brigitte Kalipcioglu, Wolfgang Kilzer, Wida Klein, Brigitta Knotek, Klaudia Koch, Heinz Kreuer, Alexandra Krisper, Antonia Lombard, Ursula Machold, Christian Marosits, Siegrid Marianne Maulbetsch, Gerti Mayer, Rene Merio, Mirjam Morad, Christine Musger-Gründl, Christian Oberndorfer, Verena Piatti, Daniela Pichler-Bogner, Marianne Sachs, Gabriele Salzmann, Romana Schima, Ulrike Scholda, Erwin Stadler, Eva Stättner, Michaela Storck, Samia Tadros, Kaspar Vogel, Johanna Wendt, Eva Wiedrich, Sonja Winkler, Margarete Zeiner. Festival de Otoño, Madrid : German Espada Fernandez, Jesus Antonio Ferrer, Juan Carlos Villarubia Sanchez, Julian Valentin Gonzalez, Luis Miguel Chicharro Lopez, Mariano Posadas Arosa, Mario Tebar Gomez, Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Oscar Franco Sanz, Oscar Garcia-Romeral Farinas, Pedro Gonzales Martin-Caro, Roberto Sanchez Espipia, Fernando Gabriel Uneo, Ane Sastre Paleologos, Dolores Magdalena Arraez Moreno, Genoveva Bautista Vicente, Gloria Mercedes Milla Martinez, Maria Gloria Perez Bastos, Jenny de la Torre Cordoba, Maria de las Mercedes Valcarcel Duenas, Maria del Carmen Fraile Garcia, Maria del Carmen Gomez Garcia, Maria del Pilar Jimenez Lopez, Maria Dolores Hernandez Vicente, Maria Teresa Gomez Cristobal, Milagrosa Sanz Rueda, Mu-Ur Vindel Sanz, Yolanda Sanz Martin. 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Show/ Dance/ Theater
In Castilian “espontáneo” is both an adjective (meaning voluntary or spontaneous) and a noun – it designates a lunatic fringe of spectators at bullfights, untrained crazies who leap into the ring and try to steal the matadors’ thunder. The stars of La Ribot’s 40 Espontáneos, 2004, are also non-professionals, but they perform in a highly co-operative spirit. Commanding the stage for a full seventy minutes and laughing continuously as they work, they use recycled furniture, cardboard sheeting and a kaleidoscope of rainbow-coloured clothing and textiles to transform its appearance – and their own – several times over. At one point the stage is a vibrant abstract painting, at another a ramshackle favela. Resplendent in their ever-changing second-hand finery, the laughing espontáneos project an air of grandeur and exuberance.
40 Espontáneos was inspired by a bizarre image: a production photograph from Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus showing hundreds of fake-blood-spattered “rebel slaves” lying in a field, all playing dead – but at the same time, brandishing large numbered cards at the camera. No. 1 glares furiously over the top of his; No. 256 uses his as a sunscreen, and No. 19 lazily props his number against his head. The image distils a wonderful set of dichotomies – between individual expression and collectivity, accident and design, reality and fakery, action and inertia, and even life and death. These are the themes 40 Espontáneos explores.
Long in the making, resolutely collaborative and continuously evolving, 40 Espontáneos has been reinterpreted many times in cities in Europe and Latin America. A new cast of espontáneos goes to work each time. Most have day jobs, so rehearsals take place over a week in the evenings, and key to the process is learning how to laugh for an unfeasibly long time. With each new production, new ways are found to blur the distinction between audiences and performers, and co-producer Jacques Blanc has summarized 40 Espontáneos as the antithesis of “the fake dream of TV celebrity”. Rather, he says, it’s a genuine kind of “theatrical utopia… where spectators and performers merge into a single dream”.