MARÍA DE DUEÑAS LÓPEZ

I SEE THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION

Two awards in  28º Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid 2014. 

It is a proposition of coexistence and relationship mediated by external conditions different than the nature of the agents, therefore instrumentalized. The coexistence and relations are given in different layers: dance and music, space and time, dance-performers and music-performer, main rol and choir, male and female figures. 

"I See the Problem, Not the Solution", a 'dance-music choreographic score trio in two chapters' is materialized metaphor for instrumentalization of coexistence. It addresses the problem of treatment and understanding of gender, which seems to be –despite the expansion of perception of variability and potential male-female characterized relationships– always returning to the most conservative views. The performance establishes a lonely figure of a male role transforming in androgens, humoresque king, whilst behind him the visible space is gradually occupied by nude empress, naked and exposed to the audience prehistoric woman. The philosophical discourse of gender categorization and the substitution of functions –with layering and multiplying the possible relations, meandering, erasing the differences, and removing the meanings– underlined and sharply questions the obviousness of the scholarly reading of dance duet, and systematically pokes the instrumentalization of projections and understandings of genders and the correlations between them."

Text by theoritizian and dramaturge Jasmina Založnik

Credits

Idea:  María de Dueñas López and Ivan Mijacevic.

Choreography and performance: María de Dueñas López, Ivan Mijacevic and Gasper Piano

Original music: Gasper Piano

Conceptualization advise: Jasmina Založnik

Production:  DG Collective & Inability crew. 
Coproduction: Hochschule für Music und Tanz (Germany), Atelierhause Quartier Am Hafen (Germany), PTL (Slovenia), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain), plataforma paso a 2 y Teatro de Canal Madrid.

Special thanks to Katie Duck and Freakatoni.

Premier at Gender Bender Festival Bologna 2015.