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Ifema, ''Malinche''

Madrid

The stage mounting of the larger of two motorized 9SW - Longitudinal systems ad hoc for Roman curtains, Venetian curtains and Austrian curtains used by the staging.It features 6 lifting points, as is evident from the winding drum grooves for the cables ...
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... and will be used for the Roman opening of a backdrop measuring 17.3 x h 10 m and weighing approximately 40 kg.The supporting structure of the backdrop, along which the lifting cables run, has been assembled and is ready ...
... to be raised and fixed to the stage structures.The backdrop opening system will be used as if it were a fore yard of a ship.In narrative and scenographic fiction, in fact ...
... the backdrop is the sail of one of the ships of Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of Mexico, of whom Malinche was the Aztec interpreter and lover.Set designer Hansel Cereza chose the ASC - Sceno muslin in natural colour ...
... to imitate that of the raw cotton canvas with which the sails were made.The shape of the sail has been stylized, while for its making up ...
... 7 strips of muslin less than 3 m wide have been used.The strips were joined with a 3 cm wide flat felled Seam, so that it was clearly visible ...
... in imitation of the ways in which boat sails were made on in the 16th century.
The second and smallest sail.It measures 10.8 x h 7.2 m and is made with 5 strips of muslin.Both sails will also be used as frontal projection screens during the show.
Music
Nacho Cano
First night
Madrid, Espacio Malinche, IFEMA, 15/9/2022
Scenography
Hansel Cereza
Costume design
José Ventura
Light design
Technical direction
Stage direction
Nacho Cano
Staging
Season
2022 / 2023

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Ifema, ''Malinche''

Materials used in this production

9SW - SW longitudinal system

Systems for curtains

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Roman curtains

Typology of curtain

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