Ciudades

CITIES it's a artistic research project inspired by the concept of a city that gives rise to a set of stage pieces that travel through the same scenery, different audiences and different artists supported and premiered by the Teatralia International Festival of Madrid the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 being one of them FETÉN AWARD 2023.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

A open and flexible stage device in continuous motion that allows artistic proposals, both performing and educational that value transmission, communication, respect for the environment, integration, the dissemination of art and the importance of difference.

A collection of pieces that travel from the most poetic and essential to the most political and intellectual, exploring the body, music, and voice in service to the traveling object. from early childhood to adult audiences.

Patricia Ruz invites artists to participate in this project as Nacho Bilbao, Alberto Romera, Andrés kaba, Oscar Villegas, Xavi Lozano and Ignacio Yuste.

This project gives rise to CITIES (LANDSCAPES UNDER CONSTRUCTION), CITIES (ARCHITECTURES IN MOTION) y CITIES (MIJI), But there is the possibility of continuing in other CITIES…New creations in dialogue with other artists or social collectives from different cities and cultures, starting from artistic residencies that generate new creative processes and their resulting pieces.

CITIES also offers workshops on working with the object, spatial composition and reflection on the concept of the contemporary city.

In conclusion CITIES (POLIS / CIDADES / CIUTATS / VILLES / CITTÁ…is a project that offers a artistic and cultural exchange Created from difference and integration within a shared human space: the city. A place built to become part of our identity, destroyed to become part of our memories, and rebuilt to embrace dreams. The city as space for action, unity, change and coexistence that welcomes us all; full of encounters and farewells, advantages and disadvantages, possibilities and limits, opportunities and difficulties.

Ultimately, cities are created by people, regardless of where they come from, and it is in the acceptance of difference and its sensitivity where the I respect towards oneself and towards others.

Architectures in motion

A piece of dance and sound universes for Audience aged 5 and up that is built through the body, voice, object manipulation and live music. A contemplative experience where Patricia Ruz and Nacho Bilbao They inhabit different spaces and sounds about the cities of the world.

This is the story… of a city of sound that embraces all the cities of the world. Here, rooftops have antennas, buildings are like radios, and houses search for frequencies. Destroy to build, build to listen, tune in to transform. A place without a name, for you to give it your own.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Performers: Patricia Ruz and Nacho Bilbao 

Original Music: Nacho Bilbao

Other performers and musicians on tour: Xavi Lozano and Ignacio Yuste.

Stage design and choreography: Patricia Ruz 

Lighting: David Picazo and Sergio García

Sound: Oscar Villegas 

Vines: Eleni Chaidemenaki 

Photography: Carolina Galiano

Graphic Design: Javier Espada

Production Manager: Mayte Barrera 

Production assistance: Jose Luis Delgado 

Production: Millimeter 

Distribution: Ana sala IKEBANAH

Created by: Patricia Ruz and Nacho Bilbao

Idea and Direction: Patricia Ruz

Show duration: 50 min.

Maximum capacity: 120 spectators 

Premiered at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid as part of the Teatralia International Festival 2022.

FETEN 2023 AWARD FOR NEW DRAMATURGY

Landscapes under construction

A piece of dance and diversity for the Early Childhood that is built through the body, the theatrical, the object and the poetics of movement. Patricia Ruz next to Alberto Romera They tell us about this journey through different imaginary spaces inspired by the city that define landscapes to share with the little ones.

This is the story… of a dream city. Destroy to build, build to transform, transform to dream. A city, a neighborhood, some neighbors, a house, our room. Time to sleep! A place without a name, for you to give it your own.


ARTISTIC CREDITS


Performers: Patricia Ruz and Alberto Romera
Music: Antonio Sánchez, Martin Bruhn & Eltaly and Martin Buscaglia
Stage design and choreography: Patricia Ruz
Lighting: David Picazo
Photography: Carolina Galiano
Advice provided by: Silvia Nieva
Graphic design: Javier Espada
Production Manager: Mayte Barrera
Production assistance: Jose Luis Delgado
Distribution: Ana sala IKEBANAH
Production: Millimeter
Idea and direction: Patricia Ruz


Show duration: 35 min.
Maximum capacity: 90 spectators, including babies and adults. Audience seated close to the stage.

Premiered at the EL PETIT Sabadell International Festival 2022 and the Teatralia Festival in Madrid 2023

Miji

A performative piece of dance, testimony and live music for teenage and adult audience on equality where Patricia Ruz, Andrés Kaba and Oscar Villegas create a story about the struggle for territories, racism, slavery, and class inequality. A children's game that turns into a painful reality for raise awareness and to value the respect for space and difference. Andrés Kaba, through its piano and its testimony It brings back memories of his hometown, Kintchasa to show us a harsh reality that occurs in their country, Congo and on its continent, Africa. A reflection that highlights the political conflicts that are established by the land ownership and its possession

This is the story…of a battered city. A story to better understand the land we walk on. A meeting place for love and difference, a spiritual and intimate territory that is part of being human: the non-territory. A story about the feeling of belonging to a place, the conflict involved in defining it, and the sadness of not accepting the richness of difference, thus destroying the feeling of unity. A place without a name…

ARTISTIC CREDITS

On stage: Patricia Ruz, Andrés Kaba and Oscar Villegas
Live piano and piano compositions: Andrés Kaba
Soundscape and live music: Oscar Villegas
Space and Choreography: Patricia Ruz
Lighting: David Picazo
Project text: Luis Sorolla
Stage consultants: Silvia Nieva and Jesus Barranco
Children's voiceover: Leo Jiménez and Silvia Tardío
Photography: Carolina Galiano
Graphic design: Javier Espada
Production Director: Mayte Barrera
Production assistance: Jose Luis Delgado
Production: Millimeter
Created by: Patricia Ruz, Andres Kaba and Oscar Villegas
Idea and direction: Patricia Ruz

Show duration: 50 min.
Maximum capacity: 120 spectators

Premiered at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid as part of the Teatralia International Festival 2024.

Patricia Ruz, Director
+34 690 64 75 42

Mayte Barrera Production
+34 699 114 072

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