Sonoma

Sonoma is a word that doesn’t exist. However, it contains the Greek root soma (“body”) and the Latin root sonum (“sound”):
body of sound or sound of the body. Sonoma would be this sound of a body falling, the desperation of human beings to keep believing we are still alive, that we are still awake.

In this piece, Marcos Morau revisits the basic ideas of Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, created in 2016 at the Ballet de Lorraine, based on the figure of Buñuel, medieval Calanda and cosmopolitan Paris.

Sonoma stems from the need to go back to the beginning, to the body, the flesh, to lose oneself in a journey between dream and fiction where what is human meets what is extraordinary. Sonoma is also believed to mean “valley of the Moon” in one of the Indigenous languages of northern California. According to legend, every night the Moon comes out to curl up on the plains, where the cries, the howls and the drum blasts form a hypnotic pulse, like a comforting lullaby.
 

Duration: 75 minutes without a break.

Original language of the show: French (with subtitles)

Photo: Alice Brazzit

Idea and artistic direction: Marcos Morau

Production management: Juanma G. Galindo

Choreography: Marcos Morau, in collaboration with the performers

Performers: Àngela Boix, Julia Cambra, Laia Duran, Anna Hierro, Ariadna Montfort, Núria Navarra, Marina Rodríguez, Sau-Ching Wong

Text: El Conde de Torrefiel, La Tristura y Carmina S. Belda

Rehearsal assistants: Estela Merlos and Alba Barral

Dramaturgical adviser: Roberto Fratini

Vocal assistant: Mònica Almirall

Technical direction and lighting design: Bernat Jansà

Stage manager, stage machinery and special effects:  David Pascual

Original music and sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra

Sound on tour: Eugeni Alsedà

Voice: María Pardo

Stage design: Bernat Jansà and David Pascual

Costume design: Silvia Delagneau

Production: Mª Carmen Soriano

Hats: Nina Pawlowsky

Masks: Juan Serrano – Gadget Efectos Especiales

Giant: Martí Doy

Props: Mirko Zeni

Production and logistics: Cristina Goñi Adot and Àngela Boix

Co-production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Tanz im August/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona – Institute of Culture, Barcelona City Council, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Theater Freiburg, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta, Hessisches Staatsballett within the framework of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main.

With the collaboration of Graner – Fàbriques de Creació and Teatre L’Artesà.

Project receiving funds from the PYRENART cross-border cooperation project, within the framework of the Interreg VA Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA 2014-2020 programme - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

With the support of INAEM - Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain and ICEC - Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya.