IN PARADISUM Antonio Ruz / CND – trailer

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IN PARADISUM
Antonio Ruz / Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain)

Choreography: Antonio Ruz
Original Idea: Pablo Martín Caminero and Antonio Ruz
Music: Tomás Luis de Victoria, „Officium defunctorum“, La Grande Chapelle / Albert Recasens, Schola Antiqua / Juan Carlos Asensio (Lauda LAU020) and original composition by Pablo Martín Caminero
Stage Design: Paco Azorín
Costume Design: Rosa García Andújar
Lighting design: Olga García (AAI)
Dramaturgy: Rosabel Huguet
Director assistant: Lucía Bernardo
Assistant to Costume Designer: Lucía Celis
Set Construction: Mambo Decorados, Gerriets España
Wardrobe: D´Inzillo Sweet Mode
Video: Alba Muriel
Duration: 35 min.

Since ancient times, human beings have sought collective mechanisms and rituals to transcend the mundane and have felt, as individuals, the need to feel part of a whole. In the past, we had religious masses, cults, pilgrimages and pagan celebrations. Today we perhaps try to fill that gap with music festivals, concerts or raves. In short, we turn to collective experiences that congregate thousands of people with a common experience around music and the body. Rather than a place, can we say Paradise is more a mental and physical state?
As a kind of time travel, In Paradisum proposes a dialogue between religious music and pop music, the sacred and the mundane, the collective and the individual. A human reflection on the concept and search for spirituality in our time. A stage ritual filled with movement, rhythm, subtlety, emotion and energy.

The dance, as an expressive vehicle and a primitive language, is conveyed through different solos, pas a deux and group choreographies. It created upon and projected through the different voices and choral tones of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 -1611), one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time. With an innovative style whose influence continues to this day, his music pushed beyond the bounds of the Renaissance with all its balance and purity, to usher in the intense dramatic quality of the Barroque expression. With the desire to bring back Spanish musical heritage, this creation pays the first ever tribute in dance to this brilliant composer.
The piece encompasses an original aesthetic concepts, inspired in the colour pallete of the painter El Greco’s, a contemporary of Tomas Luis de Victoria. The visionary intensity of his paintings evokes human transcendance and the divine; a holy madness between the Earthly and the celestial.

Dance, art and music join in In Paradisum, a polyphonic dance.

Antonio Ruz