Marina Oural, Chefa Alonso, Irene Coto & Mónica Cofiño

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A seed moving from Galicia to Uruguay begins its journey with the great Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou ‘Juana de América’, a link between two lands and a pretext for a scenic creation that integrates several artistic disciplines: poetry, dance, music and teaching for theater service. The North American writer has named the Lourenzá (Lugo) library since 1962. Her father, a native of this city, later migrates to Uruguay in the mid-nineteenth century. The artist was born in the city of Melo, at the end of the same century, and at 18 she moved to Montevideo, where she lived until the moment of her death. Possibly it will be the organisms of the time, those that make it easier for us to preserve a sound letter of the poet with her voice and echoing the moment of her nomination.

The audio presented, which the poetess herself sent to the authorities of the time, is the inspiring seed of the work ‘JUANA’, in which the famous poems of three women from different centuries are intertwined with music and dance. Texts by Juana de Ibarbourou (1892-1979, Uruguay), Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885, Galicia) and Marina Oural Villapol (1968, Lourenzá-Galicia). All tutors of a multidisciplinary scenic work: body, voice and music that serve the text and vice versa.

On stage there are also many female artists from different generations, sharing their multidisciplinary creation with men, while deepening their learning of scenic art as a universal and necessary tool for relationship and communication.

There are different places and worlds that assume free improvisation as the achievement of mastery in their creation, the point where they share their first composition for the first time. They were, in practice, constructive values in orality, musicality and the movement of the felt and written word for the cultivation of the earth and the sky, in an international work of the village, dedicated to the village and the Galician spell.

This edition of the Performance ‘Juana_Inspiracións Trío’, for the first time in Portuguese territory, took place during the Festival Ocupai 2018, between the 23rd and 24th of June, on the river beach of Destriz (União de Freguesias de Destriz e Reigoso, Municipality of Oliveira de Friars).

Marina Oural (Galicia-Lourenzá, 1968) Producer, teacher, poet-performer, and self-taught artist since the age of 15, she became aware of the movement through CI_Contact Improvisation in Italy, Madrid and Barcelona. She immerses herself in performance collaborating with companies like Central Folque, poets like Estibaliz Espinosa and singer-songwriters like Ugia Pedreira. She currently directs Poetry and Movement projects, as well as Art and Functional Diversity contexts.

Irene Álvarez (Asturias-Cádiz) Dancer, choreographer and director of the Asturias Contact Festival, interested in dance and the transformation of wind into art. IRENE COTO_DANCE; ASTURIAS CONTACT FESTIVAL;

Mónica Cofiño (Asturias) Graduated in tourism, Cofinõ is a dancer, performer and scenic producer, best known for her connection to the collective La Xata La Rifa, where she offers her mastery and vigor with the impetus of the meadows. She additionally holds a degree in Classical-Spanish Dance from the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Madrid. She completed her training at the Léon Choreographic Center as well as the Barcelona Theater Institute. She also studied in international schools and theaters in cities such as Budapest, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, San José (Costa Rica) and Amsterdam. For her work, she has already been awarded the “Injuve” prize for scenic proposals in 2009 and “Astragal” in 2010.

Chefa Alonso (Galicia-Madrid) Free jazz and free improvisation saxophonist and percussionist. She composes music for theatrical, dance, circus and audiovisual shows, in addition to exercising important teaching activities, giving free improvisation and composition workshops at Brunel University (London, 2007). She has participated in free jazz and improvisation festivals in Germany, Austria, Brazil, France, Spain, England, Mexico and Switzerland. She is part of the groups Sin Red, free improvisation quartet, Uz, trio de vientos, Akafree and the duo with pianist Alberto Kaul. Finally, Alonso is also part of the improvisation orchestras LIO (London Improvisers Orchestra), Orquestra FOCO (Orquesta de Música Espontanea de Madrid) and OMEGA (Orquesta de Música Espontánea de Galicia).