A Performance In Carmona, Spain

 Gustavo Thomas during a performance in Carmona, Spain
(Digital work by Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

These are some photographs, digital paintings and two videos from the performance Mary Jordan, Barrett Wissman and myself did in Carmona, Spain, during Ana Corbero and Nabil Gholam's anniversary party in September 25, 2011. 

We didn't prepare anything in advance (before arriving in Carmona), everything was arranged minutes before: Mary and I asked Barrett to play some intense piece at the piano, and we marked the starting and final movement of my displacement inside the open air pool, and that was all. 

Children were there and made feel their presence but that was interesting and almost challenging for all three. Of course the amazing Andalusian landscape we had as a background made our day.

I have to say that this was my first public performance (live) as a Butoh artist (Butohka as it is said), as everything I did before this day had been through internet and closed-door workshops. Curiosities of life.

Mary Jordan and Gustavo Thomas during A Performance in Carmona, Spain.
(Digital Work by Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Slideshow of A Performance in Carmona, Spain.

 

Video of A Performance in Carmona, Spain.

Video effect of A Performance in Carmona, Spain

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Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain (2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

I've been out for some weeks and it's because I was traveling to Portugal and South of Spain. I went to Spain, to Carmona (near Seville), for a very especial event, the 15th anniversary party of my friends Ana Corberó and Nabil Gholam. Of course I won't talk about that celebration (that's a private matter) but I will share some photos I took of Ana's giant children sculptures.

I'd seen these sculptures when I was living in Beirut (2003-2005) but never with that amazing Andalusian valley as a background and in such quantity, more than 8 sculptures.

Ana Corberó realized these children-shape sculptures after her experience living in Beirut, a city full of contrasts and frame of many Israeli invasions and bombardments, the face of the children looking at the sky, looking at the bombers, was the inspiration.

I'm sure you will enjoy the images...

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero's Giant Children Sculptures in Carmona, Spain. (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

Ana Corbero at her studio in Carmona, Spain (By Gustavo Thomas. 2011)

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"Teatro Cerezo" in Carmona, Spain.

I've been out for many weeks. I was traveling in Spain and also enjoying the beginnings of Summer in Toronto. My life is full of creativeness and, well, there was no much time for writing Blog-things.

We can retake our business with some new photographs, this time of the Teatro Cerezo (Cerezo Theatre), in the small city of Carmona.

Carmona is a charming village with a very long history; it starts with the Paleolithic and passes by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Christians, the Spanish Republic and the Spain of today. Carmona is a real jewel only 20 minutes away from Sevilla, in Andalusia.

History says that in the 1930's, during the Spanish Republic years, Bernanrdo Enrique Cerezo, an inhabitant of Carmona, won the Lottery first prize and offered part of the money for the construction of a new theatre. The theatre was built by the architects Enrique Romero and Emilio Ramos in a mix of architectonic styles: a very late art-nouveau external structure with decorative motives of art-deco, very in fashion. Today the Teatro Cerezo works as a city's events centre: cinema, theatre, lectures, concerts and events around its regional fairs and carnivals, including a famous Gran Festival del Perol, which take place every year in October.

Teatro Cerezo. Carmona, Spain (2010)

Gaudi Exhibition in Beijing, China

A genius of Architecture, Antonio Gaudí, in the exhibition "Cosmos Gaudí. Arquitectura, geometría y diseño" (Cosmos Gaudi. Architecture, geometry and design), at Capital Museum in Beijing, China.

Not Theatre or Performing Arts, I know, but a genius of Art.

This is the first exhibition I've really enjoyed so far in Beijing: short, easy to follow and understand, and of course visually beautiful. That is not easy to find in this country, believe me.