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Pessoas Patiencies

a dramatical fuga in four voices

based on the 'Book of Unrest' and other texts by Fernando Pessoa  

 

 

 

text, stage-direction, set- & costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

production assistant: Claudia Cabrera

light: Raffael Mendoza

choreography: Rafael Rosales

music: Erando González

with Silverio Palacios / Erando González, Arnoldo Picazzo, Juan-C.arlos Remolino / Carlos Orosco

and Antonio Salinas

production: Cordelia Dvorák & Companía Miranda

Teatro Helénico / Festival Londrina

 

Mexico / Portugal / Germany / 2005

 

Lisbon. Rua dos Douradores : The desk of an accountant who is a poet.

And from there he imagines life. The sea is not far. And yet too far.

Thought sails are hoisted, day after day. But the longing remains.

On the lower floor: the ordering of the seas as trade correspondence all over the world.

Above: fictional dialogues, imagined encounters with 'alter egos' and heteronyms,

reflected in infinite monologue-loops and mirrored again and again along imaginary life coordinates.

Have and should of unpaved days. Daily verification of the existence account.

A "drama en gente".

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Script and directing: Cordelia Dvorák

Light: Raffael Mendoza

Set- and costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

Music: Erando González

Production assistance: Claudia Cabrera

Producer: Companía MIranda & FONCA

Teatro Helénico, México City: 2005 / 2006

Festival Internacional de Londrina / Brasil

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with Erando González, Silverio Palacios, Arnoldo Picazzo, J. C. Remolina

Carlos Orosco and Antonio Salinas

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Lisbon, rua dos Douradores: The desk of an accountant, who is actually a poet,

 

and from there thinks life.

The sea is not far, and yet too far to set sail and set out.

Sails of thought are nevertheless hoisted, day after day. But the longing remains.

Downstairs: The accountant Bernardo Soares, behind half-closed blinds in the semi-darkness

of an import and export office.

The upper floor: imagined encounters, fictitious dialogues and alternating life hypotheses

 

between Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro.

First-person drafts are played out, like desperate patience.

Everyday reassurance of one's own existential account: credit and debit of unsecured days.

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"Pessoas Patiencencies: a thoroughly sensual enjoyment !"

Bruno Bert, TIEMPO LIBRE

 

“... a poetic collage that leads us into Pessoa's reflections on life

and the impetus of the Book of Unrest.”

Silvia Ortega, time out

 

"Compelling in its discipline, rigor and humour."

Noé Morales, Jornada semanal

 

“...  set out on the difficult path to make the invisible universe of the poet Pessoa

visible on stage. (...) At the end of the theater evening, the impression remains of having been

a secret guest in Pessoa's soul world. Thanks to the dramaturgical rigor and the compellingly

magical image, there are no emotional excesses, but the moving encounter with this kind

of Pessoan world and life pain, which persecutes us all again and again."

Fernando de Ita, REFORMA

           

“Cordelia Dvorák shuns the theatrical convention of conflict dramaturgy by offering much more intimate encounters ...

Pessoa's language complements wonderfully with the scenic and choreographic elements,

including Portuguese fados and Stravinsky touches. ”

Erika Bucio, REFORMA

 

- awarded in 'Tiempo libre' as one of the three best theatre productions in 2005 -

 

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Un Mambo con La Catrina

13 scenic calaveras between this world and the beyond

 

after 'Bajo tierra' by Davíd Olguín

with texts by Octavio Paz, José Gorostiza, Xavier Villarutia, Rosario Castellanos, Jaime Sabines and José Gudalupe Posada

 

Text-adaptation, stage-direction, set- & costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

Production: Cia. Miranda

Light: Raffael Mendoza

Choreography: Emma Trujillo

Music: Erando González

with Adriana Ríos, Carlos Cobos, Arnoldo Picazzo and José Flores

 

Switzerland / Mexico / 2009

Kulturbahnhof Basel / Festival más acá del más allá / FONCA / Fundación Bancomer

 

The Mexican death - La Catrina - is a woman: sensual, humorous and sexy.

Dressed in chocolate and sugar and tastes sweet. That's why you'd rather dance with her than flee her

- a mambo for example ...

A modern interpretation of the Mexican death myth, inspired by Holbein's Dance of Death-Zycle in Baal and the calaveras by the famous Mexican lithographer of the revolutionary era, José Guadalupe Posada.

 

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"A sensual satire about Mexico, how it suffers and lives - a great tragic comedy!"

Reforma

 

“A round of thirteen scenic vignettes in a meta-theatrical role play:

Theatre as an escape and a playfull space in the face of transience ...

On the painful borderline situation of Mexican migrants, the sexual confusion

of Catholic priestsand cowboy-like political conspiracies are alluded to as well as our

own paradoxical attitude between hate and love, humor and horror that characterizes

our attitude towards finitude."

Noé Morales: La Jornada semanal

 

“In a powerfully ironic-satirical gesture, the director unites Posada's caricatures

in this vivid baroque spectacleabout the difficulties of life with the idea of ​​Hans Holbeins'

dance cycle. Cordelia Dvorák brilliantly portrayed the artist Posada in his own universe in

this macabre carnival. (...) A bittersweet mambo. "

Jorge Ricardo, La Jornada

 

“A death-dance imaginary-sheet between pleasure, shudder and critical satire (...) with a lot of dance and singing

on the catwalk between this world and the afterlife (...) as well as allusions to the political scandals of recent months (...)

which are held up to the public as a frightening caricature mirror.

This multifaceted chamber musical was celebrated with great enthusiasm by the festival audience.”

Ingrid Vega, La Crónica

 

“And so we live the 'borrowed' life of two gravediggers, the clerical meeting of Father Cobos and his valet Clavito, the“ preciosos ”and other personalities of current political life, which are wonderfully reinforced due to the great musicality and physical expression of Carlos Cobos and Arnoldo Picazzo, the vocal sensuality of Adriana Rios and the troubling presence of Marcelino Flores.”

Oswaldo Valdovinos, Uno más Uno

 

 

Ulissas - mujeres urgentes

homage to Clarice Lispector

 

 

 

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Script, direction, set- & costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

Production: Cia. Miranda

Light: Raffael Mendoza

Music: Erando González

with Gelía Álvarez, Adriana Ríos, Flor Edwarda Gurrola, Norma Angélica and Tara Para

 

Mexico / Brazil / Germany / 2009

 

A contemporary odyssey with seven Oddyssas. A female cosmos, where many different female characters discover the secret and challenge of their lives in the supposedly banal: in the reflection on motherhood while watching an egg on the kitchen table; or becoming aware of the impermanence when chewing a chewing gum as well as encountering their demons in the face of cockroaches, rats, chickens and a buffalo.

In search of an emergency exit from their lives, they accidentally stumble into fantastic, surreal universes, where they have surprising encounters with God, death, love and their own masks.

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Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy

 by Withold Gombrovic

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stage direction: Sylvia Ventoretti

costume design: Cordelia Dvorák

 

 

 

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130 degrees

by Sylvia Pellaez

Director: Sylvia Ortega Ventoretti

Costumes: Cordelia Dvorák

Teatro Granero, 2006

 

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Las Meninas

by Ernesto Anaya

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stage direction: Juan Pablo García

set- and costume design: Cordelia Dvorák

Teatro Juan Ruíz Alarcón

 

 

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Titus Andrónicus

after William Shakespeare

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stage-directíon: Anna Francis Moor

set-design: Juliana Fessler

costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

 

 

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Petroucka

by Igor Stravinsky

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choreography: Angel Michels

light: Raffael Mendoza

costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

 

 

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choreography: Angel Myers

light: Gabriel Mendoza

costume-design & masks: Cordelia Dvorák

Companía de Danza Contemporanea Querétaro 2001

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Opera Fantasma

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The Four Seasons

 by Antonio Vivaldi

 

 Choreography: Angelo Myers

 Light: Raffael Mendoza

 Costume-design: Cordelia Dvorak

 Companía de Danza Contemporanea de Querétaro, 2004

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Trilogía Copi

director: Daniel Giménez Cacho

set-design and light: Gabriel Pascal

costume-design: Cordelia Dvorák

Teatro El Milagro, México City 2003

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Die Blusen
des Böhmen

by Robert Gernhardt

director: Anette Spola

stage & light: Er´berhard Kürn

costumes: Cordelia Dvorák

Kammerspiele München, 1998

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