La Glorieta
La glorieta (Creative laboratory)
Small Glory.
A meeting of different out of order artists to trace a commune map without the requirement to focus all their different interests in the same way.
We are there to mix all our languages, practices and tools to start working, to loss ourselves, and from there look at reality again.
La glorieta becomes then an observatory. A group of artists observing and blindly describing what they don not see. It is a tool that allows us to re look at reality, to activate a personal and singular eye.
To look at what we already do not see any more, that it presents every day in front of us like a plain and insignificant frame. To reactivate our observation, a decisive one, critic in front of reality and in front of oneself.
It is a oblique strategy to look for the peripheral , the revel phantoms and a deconstruction our position of power in the creation process.
With: Tomás Aragay, Sofía Asencio, Chus Dominguez, Espe López, Idoia Zabaleta y artistas invitados.
A coproducctión with Azala espacio de creación escénica, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vitoria Artium, CCCEscorxador de Elche, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla-Endanza y El Matadero de Madrid.
with the suport of: CoNCA (Generalitat de Catalunya), INAEM, Institu Ramon Llull (IRLL).
Caldo Primordial
Caldo primordial is an artistic action in a specific space. Abstract. Not narrative.
Length: 30 min
Idea: Tomàs Aragay and Sofía Asencio
Creation and performance: Sofía Asencio, Ramón Giró
Production: Sònia Isart
Commissioned by La Porta for the context of LP'11
With the support of the CONCA and the INAEM.
Folkloric Acid
In Folkloric Acid, Societat Doctor Alonso concerns itself with the body as a collective part of celebration. We search for the essence of folk roots in some of the folkloric dances represented in traditional fairs in order to find which vestigial remains are still present in contemporary creative works in our own culture, while we also look into the collective rituals of contemporary society.
"In traditional fairs, the main feature is that of sharing. Who invented the music is not relevant, nor is the originality of the songs or who made the things used or if they work well or not. What is important is that there is food and drink before the dancing begins.
When one meets up at a friend's house for a barbecue, those mechanisms of internal organisation which ensure that the event works arise in a spontaneous and natural manner. These mechanisms of self-management, which allow us to have fun together are in fact regenerative."
Director: Tomàs Aragay
Playwright: Tomàs Aragay and Sofía Asencio
Choreography: Sofía Asencio
Creation and performance: Sofía Asencio, Idurre Azkue, Emili Gutiérrez and Ramon Villegas
Stage design and lighting: CUBE.bz
Production and management: Sònia Isart, sonia@doctoralonso.org
Distribution: Iva Horvat, iivahorvat@gmail.com
Àcid folklòric is co-produced by the Temporada Alta Festival, the Párraga Centre of Murcia, The Mediterranean Fair of Manresa, the Ésdansa Festival, the Mercat de les Flors and the CCC l'Escorxador d'Elx.
With the support of the CONCA and the INAEM.
With the collaboration of Azala Espacio and Pontós Town Council.
Fernando Pessoa Club
"How many times have I too, who laugh at such seductive distractions, find myself conjecturing how wonderful it would be to be famous, how pleasant to be fussed over, how exciting to be triumphant." Fernando Pessoa
The raw, stark desolation of Pessoa's views and thoughts take the reader to a state close to serious introspection. On stage, Societat Doctor Alonso creates a humoristic tone which emphasises the incredible capacity of Pessoa, in order to describe and reveal the great absurdity which envelops our existence.
This is a world of person-personalities who find in Pessoa the perfect refuge through which to interpret the often hostile and incomprehensible world in which we live. The characters are several solitary souls who find solace together having discovered their own private space in this small, desolate yet somewhat absurd fan club.
Director and playwright: Tomàs Aragay
Performers: Sofía Asencio, Mia Esteve, Ramón Giró and Luis Carlos Viejo.
Sound technician: Nilo Gallego
Stage design and lighting: CUBE.bz
Production: Sònia Isart-Societat Doctor Alonso
Distribution: Iva Horvat, iivahorvat@gmail.com
Co-produced by the Free Theatre Societat Doctor Alonso and the Cultural Council of Ferrol, for the Free Radicals Cycle.
With the support of the ConCA-Department of Culture of the Catalan Government and the INAEM.
With the participation of Sant Mori Town Council and Pontós Town Council.
Portraits, or If I were
Portraits, or If I were is a series of body portraits seen through the body of a dancer. It is an appropriation of the body of another, of identity expressed in bodily movement. An anthropological work of the movements of bodies of nameless people from around the world. A choreography, a ritualisation of particular and non-transferable movement.
"However, beyond this first layer of objective observation of the portrayed being, Portraits, or If I were, is also an exercise in science fiction, in which there is, on the one hand, the space, the objects and the life of the woman portrayed, and on the other, a foreign body, my own, which it replaces.
Portraits was created from the desire to be another person, to have another body and another life.
Finally, on speaking about others I speak about myself.
This perversion is the tension which sustains each portrait."
Sofia Asencio
A project by Societat Doctor Alonso. Tomàs Aragay / Sofía Asencio.
Performer: Sofía Asencio.
Creation: Ivó Vinuesa, Alex Reynolds, Tomàs Aragay.
Frames and image support: CUBE.bz
Editing: Ivó Vinuesa, Sofía Asencio.
Production: Agnès Mateus and Sònia Isart.
Portraits, or If I were is co-produced by the Cervantes Institute and the Ramon Llull Institute.
With the participation of: Motus (Czech Republic), Dança em Foco (Brazil), Zawirowania (Warsaw), Maqamat (The Lebanon), Nau Coclea (Catalonia), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), LP (Catalonia) and Festival Panorama (Olot, Spain).
Thanks to Concha and Jose, Mai and Elham, Laia, Margarita, Marcela yiTuigui, Marjorie and the students of the creative writing class of the La Salle University of Manila, Katerina and Irka , Ola and to everyone who made this project possible.
Societat Doctor Alonso received the support of Girona Provincial Government, the Department of Culture of the Catalan Government and the INAEM.
Volume II
One of the main goals of the company led by Tomàs Aragay and Sofía Asencio is to occupy the stage in an ever-different manner. The company use the idea of a dance floor with a strange DJ, a woman dancing and several poetic accidents - in order to reveal the least spectacular of all: the poetry of the pathetic.
Co-produced by: Teatre Lliure, Societat Doctor Alonso and EADC
Director: Tomàs Aragay / Playwright Tomàs Aragay and Sofia Asencio / Stage design and lighting CUBE/ Sound technician Nilo Gallego.
Performers: Sofía Asencio / Nilo Gallego
Management and production design: Elena de la Vara / Assistant Producer Ariadna Cisquella
Distribution: Iva Horvat, iivahorvat@gmail.com
With the participation of Nau Coclea, La Mercè Cultural Centre of Girona and Pontós Town Council.
Thanks to Segi Faüstino
With the support of the Department of Culture of the Catalan Government (EADC) and the INAEM - Ministry of Culture.