 | REPERTOIRE Cero sobre cero |
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Settings: Nacho Duato
Costumes: Nacho Duato in collaboration with Ismael Aznar
Light Design: Nicolás Fischtel
World premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, in Santander, November 17th, 1995.
Cero sobre cero is Nacho Duato`s
latest creation and the third
collaboration between this choreographer
and the Basque musician Alberto
Iglesias. Both Duato and Iglesiasseem
to have found a way of mutual
understanding in which both creators’ works
go through parallel lines to finally
merge, as if music and movement
had always been one.
In Cero sobre cero, ideas, words
and gestures disintegrate to
shape other meanings that diverge
from their original intention.
Duato wishes to underline the
crisis which artistic values
are undergoing in our society.
There is also a strong intention
to reflect the wild consumerism
which is taking root in society,
as well as its consequences on
art. Everything is disposable,
nothing lasts. Only the present,
immediate pleasure is important;
therefore, reflection does not
even take place.
Those are hard conditions for
creative activity. This instability
causes a showdown that generates
violent, even destructive attitudes.
However, although this could
be seen as a pessimistic view
of the future, it is not at all.
There is still a hope of communication
with that which represents purity.
This may be the pillar on which
to build all constructive efforts
towards renewal.
