Compañía Nacional de Danza

A plank falls.

It is not a collapse, but a foundation. The pieces seek their places, arrange themselves, lean on each other: origin, root, cornerstone… Territory that supports and connects. The wood reveals its primary function: to support from below. But, since there is no matter without gesture nor memory without substrate, each plank holds a trace, a mark: footsteps of those who were there, gestures that repeat, stories that pass from one voice to another, laughter of those who played, hands that built and cared, people who found their place in the world. In this sensitive map of the collective, nothing remains fixed. Everything organizes, moves, transforms. A tableau vivant that forms and unforms, where each arrangement retains something of the previous one, even if it is no longer the same. Tradition becomes present.

TABLERO as a contemporary square. A space where identity is not declared, it is produced, woven, built. A reflection on culture as a living practice, which is not a monument, but a process; which is not an image, but a shared experience. Where past and present coexist as the foundation of that which, in its permanence, changes, transforms… indisputable, indefinable, ALIVE.

Agnès López-Río