About the piece

In a desire to get closer to the origins of life, death crossed the path of creation and this made us think about the cyclical nature of life, the path of detachment, of building and rebuilding oneself many times, as many times as life may fall. We encounter the fragility of a nascent body, with clumsiness in the beginning, with pain and joy, hardness and delicacy. 

We understand the bodies in their young state and in their mature state, mother and daughter, who meet at the origin, on stage, who recognize each other, who detach themselves from each other, who say goodbye, who transform themselves.

In the end, we are all nature in its most primitive state, souls come and go and bodies remain, in the form of roots, shells or air.

About the company

Juliana Reyes is a Colombian playwright and theater director living in Spain. She has been co-director of L’Explose dance company since 1998, with uninterrupted creative work, research and artistic dissemination within the company. Co-creator of the productions of L’Explose Danza together with Tino Fernández, as dramaturg and theater director, she has been instrumental in the multiple national and international recognitions which have placed the Company as one of the most important dance groups in the country, with an artistic production of more than thirty shows. With the Company, she has represented Colombia in various international events in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Asia, making her one of the main ambassadors of Colombian culture abroad. After the death of L’Explose’s director and founder -Tino Fernández- in January, 2020, Juliana was appointed as the Foundation’s Artistic Director and its space, La Factoría (a hall dedicated to dance in Bogotá). Juliana has also written and directed several plays, and won several awards for drama and research in the performing arts. As a cultural manager, she worked at the Mediterranean Theatre Institute and Celcit Producciones in Spain, the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotá, where she coordinated special events on two occasions, and since 1998 she has coordinated all the activities of L’Explose, making its rehearsal space the main venue for independent dance in Bogotá. In 2019, she created the production company Opsis Producciones in Spain, with which she is also doing creative and management work in Latin America. In 2023, she received the National Dance Award, awarded by Colombia’s  Ministry of Culture, for her creation “Estela”, a co-production with the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo. 

Paloma Hurtado is a dancer and choreographer from Malaga, based in Tenerife. In 2007 she obtained the Intermediate Degree in Contemporary Dance from the Royal Professional Dance Conservatory of Madrid. Since 2007 she has lived in Tenerife, and until 2015 she was a member of the Tenerifedanzalab. In 2012 she began working as an independent dancer and creator. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Lamajara Collective, recognized nationally and internationally for its Labranza Project. In 2018 she received the Réplica Award for Best Performer in the Canary Islands for her participation in the work “Dulces Bestias”. In 2021 she received the Outstanding Performer Award from the Tetuán District Competition and the Best Performer Award from the Masdanza Choreographic Competition for her work Ina. 0. She has worked with choreographers such as Daniel Abreu, Tino Fernández and Juliana Reyes (L’Explose), Anne Lebatarde (Ex Nihilo), Edmond Russo & Shlomi Twizer (Afari Esteri), Roberto Torres (Nómada company), Thomé Araujo (Málaga Danza Teatro). Her repertoire includes the following creations: “Dakini” (2012), “Tulipán en tierra muerta” (2012), Camille Claudel bio-symphony (2013), “Tiana” (2013), 15º al Oeste (2014), Iwa Pelé (2015), Drei (2016,) Träd (2017), and Ephimera (2018). In 2019 she choreographed “Lava” for the resident company at the Tenerife Auditorium, with a version for five dancers ofnthe show “15º al Oeste”. In 2020, she co-created “Ígnea” with Daniel Rosado and Reinaldo Ribeiro, which received the Réplica Award for Best Dance Work and the Award for Best Lighting. In 2021, she created the work “Ina with Daniel Morales and Alfredo Díez, selected by the Danza a Escena 2022 Catalogue, Platea 2022-2023 and Réplica Award 2022 for Best Dance Show and Best Lighting.