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| ON SENTATA... “Carla
Barragan’s choreography is a subversive mix
of rigorous modern dance and delicate physical allusion. (SANDRA
KURTZ performance picks Seattle Weekly, 2004) ON SENTATA |
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| On SUSURROS... “to finish the evening, Carla Barragán brilliantly closed the evening with Susurros. The piece precisely conjugated ethnic dances, minimalist movement and video.” (El Comercio, Ecuador, 2003) |
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ON PAWAY "Five
artists offered their bodies to create a mosaic of Andean experiences
as well as the chaotic beauty of any Latin American metropolis.
A piece with a post-modern taste, Birlibirloque conjugates several
techniques in this project." "The
piece counts on several resources that make it unique: an attractive
set that adapts itself to a town, a cantina or a market. The use
of color also adds vitality, and in equal manner the giant puppets
visibly contrast with the actors and small puppets." |
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Latin
American magical realism meets international modern dance and puppetry
in this eventful . . . hybrid performance by Birlibirloque Dance
"In
Eruption . . .we saw gorgeous images of dancers becoming tecnonic
layers, shifting and re-shifting to the rythm of an unknown wisdom." "Carla
Barragan created a piece inspired Pichincha volcanoe´s Eruption.
The contained alusions were clear and ocassionaly humorous. Eruption
was an explosion of expressive possibilities." Previous quotes on other work: "In
the solos and group work, Carla Barragan displays a high professionalism
that involves the audience in a game of movement, music and lights.
Carla manages to generate, through her choreography, the meaning
of her companyŐs name: magic." Barragán
as a performer in Senta Driver´s Harry... "In "Us
Do Part" Michael Blake and Sam Costa, with Carla Barragan,
Holly Humble, Kathryn Millostan-Egus and Kollen Martinsen roll out
on the floor and dance with alternately bulky and light steps. The
dancers«dexterity and stamina are exceptional." "Birlibirloque´s
four women choreographers share a flamboyant feminism, an obsession
with damning details, and a tendency to launch poetic ambushes out
of nowhere" "A
women´s show that talks about women being held by images and
movements that purify them, releasing them of guilt, religions,
love and hate." "Birlibirloque
gives back to us that the forgotten sense of love and tenacity,
of search and dirsovery." "In
Ballad for a woman who forgot,, (choreographed and danced by Barragan)
the whole dance breathes a strong personal expressivity, movement
unfolds assymetrically and with energy ready to burst. The show
brings about a feeling of renovation in the artistic ambience. " About
Carla Barragan.. in "Movimientos" "the dancer's performance
decomposes into cuasi-abstract geometry until it sinks In her skins'
texture and it becomes an animated landscape with micro seismic
oscillations before the human figure returns to movement- something
between lightness and pure energy"
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