Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Sets and Costumes: Nacho Duato
Lighingt Design: Nacho Duato (according to the versión of Miguel Ángel Camacho)
World premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza at the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Santander, April 17th, 1997
in colaboration with Thêatre de Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, Paris.
Self implies the fourth collaboration
between Nacho Duato and Alberto
Iglesias. This composer has worked
with Duato in
Cautiva (1993),
Tabulae (1994) and
Cero sobre
Cero (1995).
In a world where worries of
a material kind seem to take
over our lives, the human being
as such is being relegated to
a marginal place within our comprehension
of reality. Something seems to
place itself between each human
being and his conception of himself
and other people in their own
right. This seems, therefore,
to be the right moment to reflect
on the human being's essence,
as something which preserves
its value, despite appearing
hidden behind a thick fog composed
of factors foreign to its very
centre. That person, who each
of us carries within oneself,
accompanies one throughout one's existence
and implies the true reality
for each one of us.
