Repertoire
Decimos verdades que parecen mentiras
An original creation for the 'Ellas Crean Festival' at the Muses Hall of the Prado Museum. The work explores the original meaning of the goddesses and the feminine nature of creation. The Art of the Muses in ancient Greece, μουσική (mousiké), designated both the art of sound and the art of movement. A unity that nowadays, and due to our modern all-separating consciousness, has been divided into two opposites: hearing and vision, the tangible and the intangible, the Apollonian and the Dionysian. In the Art of the Muses, dance and music are a unity.
- World premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza: at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, (Spain) on March 8, 2025
The work is a production for 24 dancers that combines dance with contemporary music. Its title comes from some verses sung by the Muses of the Helicon from Hesiod’s Theogony: “We know how to tell lies that look like truths”. In this case the meaning of this phrase is inverted: “we tell truths that look like lies”, enhancing the role of art as the creation of an apparently fictitious reality, but sometimes more intense and revealing of the mysteries of the reality that surrounds us. Art tricks us into believing and becoming aware.
Información
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Idea and conception:Muriel Romero and Pablo Palacio
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Choreography:Muriel Romero
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Musical composition:Pablo Palacio
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Scenic space:Maxi Gilbert
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Costume Design:Bebé Espinoza
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Costumes Made by:Tania Bakunova
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Running time:30'
