We have the honour to receive in Mallorca the last production by the Valencian dance company Taiat Dansa. Man Ray transcends the work of this iconic North American photographer in order to focus on the creator’s fetishist relationship with his muses and, by extension, on the exchanges between the male artists and their female models. These contacts are sometimes inspiring, and sometimes the models are treated as plain objects. Extreme relationships, especially among the surrealist artists, manipulating the women’s image, body and sexuality throughout the history of art.
In this show, Man Ray fragments and multiplies himself, all his identities appearing obsessively, and reflects on a reality structure dictated by humans. Through his own rules, his own devices. Through his photographic eyes. When stating that “art will be disturbing, or it won’t be nothing,” Breton could not have imagined that Man Ray’s CLICK of his camera would be the most disturbing shock within the surrealist discourse.
This show is a coproduction of the Festival Grec de Barcelona 2017, the Institut Valencià de Cultura, the Ballet de la Generalitat, the Sagunt a Escena 2017 and INAEM.
Idea and Direction
Meritxell Barberá & Inma García
Choreography
Meritxell Barberá & Inma García en colaboración con los bailarines
Performers
Valentina Staltari, Vicente Sales, Daniel Rodríguez, Adrián Ros, Joel Mesa, Carlos Roncero, Mauricio Pérez, Théo Vanpoperinghe
Maestro Repetiteur
José Belda
Artistic Assessment
Roberto Fratini
Musical Composition and Sound
Caldo (David Barberá)
Movement
Taiat Dansa
Fashion Design
Estudio Savage
Stage Design and Creation
Luis Crespo
Stage Adaptation
David Orrico
Audio Visual Production
David Novella
Lighting Design
Ramón Jiménez
Technical Manager
David Orrico
Production
Andrés Tamarit
Video Mapping
Sergi Palau
International Affairs and Production
Marta Fernández