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Teatro de Madrid, ''Samsara''

Madrid

Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrop made of RNB - Nebbia film.It measures 15 x 8 m, and on it was reproduced ...
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... an image elaborated by set designer Paco Azorín, a gigantic female eye in tears.The floor of the stage, prepared for the dance, is covered with the special TSM - Silviagrips floor.The large RNB - Nebbia digital printing backdrop ...
... creates here, thanks to its rear-illumination, a suggestive backlighting effect involving the 21 performers who make up the Victor Ullate corps de ballet, certainly among the Spanish dance companies that enjoy the most international fame.The scenography is completed ...
... by a BGO - Gobelin digital printing tulle backdrop, 15 x 18 m, on which the image of a closed female eye has been reproduced.The ethnic music of the ballet, coming from Egypt, Iran, India, Nepal, China, Japan, recalls the state of mind of Victor Ullate when, in the worst moments of a serious illness which seemed to lead him to epilogue of his existence ...
... sought solace in Eastern philosophies.The term samsara indicates for Buddhists, Hindus and Jains, the purifying cycle of life, death and rebirth of the transmigration of souls.The BGO - Gobelin digital printing tulle is here in a semi-transparent situation which, in the following scene, will be accentuated by illuminating ...
... the part of the stage behind it.The image captures a moment that synthesizes the scenographic possibilities of printed or painted tulle, in fact one can see, merged in superimposition:- the characters behind the backdrop, in transparency;- the chromatic lighting, in this case blue;- the projection of other subjects, the planes;- the printed subject, the eye.
One of the sketches by the scenographer Paco Azorín.
Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrop made of RNB - Nebbia film.It measures 15 x 8 m, and on it was reproduced ...
Ballet
Music
ethnic music
Choreography
Víctor Ullate
First night
Madrid, Teatro de Madrid, 22/4/2006
Scenography
Paco Azorín
Costume design
Ana Güell
Light design
Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)
Tai-chi teacher
Pedro Valencia
Artistical direction
Eduardo Lao
Madrid en Danza
2006, XXI Festival Internacional

Materials used in this production

BGO - Gobelin digital printing

Printing on fabrics

Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrops

RNB - Nebbia

Rear-projection films

RNB - Nebbia digital printing

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