CRÓNICAS MALAYASEL PANORAMA MÁGICO DE LOS INSECTOS DE ENTOMO EA&AE

Una espalda en un espacio vacío. Una espalda inmóvil que dormita inerte en estado de aparenteinactividad. Poco a poco palpita. Busca crecer, despertar. Cada uno de sus nervios, músculos,huesos, ligamentos y tendones interconectados respiran. Poco a poco despiertan. Uno a uno seconvocan a un imponente latido, que evoca, es evidente, a la vida que hay en su interior, a la energíaen búsqueda de un punto de f...uga, de una salida. Imagen poderosa de la crisálida en el lentoproceso de creación de sus extremidades, cabeza, cuerpo y torax y en fantasía minimalista de labúsqueda hacia la luz. Álvaro Esteban deconstruye en “Antípodas” una enérgica alegoría delnacimiento, de la vida. La pieza marcada por una fisicidad de alto voltaje abre, sin concesiónalguna, la propuesta escénica de “Entomo & Otros”, y marca el mágico camino que queda porrecorrer. Sin apenas pausa, Elías Aguirre nos invita en su pieza “Longfade” a observar, bajo la óptica deSpinoza, el juego de interacción entre espíritu y cuerpo y cómo se afectan en relaciones decomposición y descomposición de acuerdo a las leyes de movimiento y reposo. La partituracorporal de la pieza se basa en el arranque y la ruptura en seco, para volver a empezar de nuevo.Elías, inyecta en su cuerpo una poción, que lejos de provocar parálisis, le hace transmutarse enacción enérgica. Con un lenguaje coréutico en línea con la pieza anterior, “Longfade” complementay hace crecer la danza puesta en escena.

Con “Entomo”, última pieza del espectáculo, la energía contenida, el avance, el freno y la implosióna raudales inundan una vez más el espacio escénico. Ya con los dos bailarines en escena el juego deilusión simulada alcanza su cúlmen y consigue evocar de nuevo a la magia de los insectos.Entomo son Elías Aguirre y Álvaro Esteban y después de sus más de 100 actuaciones por 4continentes, merecían especial atención en su presentación en el Kakiseni Festival de Kuala Lumpurde este año . Tras la edición del año pasado, en la que también se presentaron las compañíasespañolas La Veronal y Kulunku Teatro, han cosechado un notable éxito de público y crítica. Todoun lujo por el que merecen estar en cualquier plataforma de difusión de la danza de creacióncontemporánea que se precie. Bajo nuestro criterio, el trabajo de Entomo es una excelenteoportunidad para disfrutar de una propuesta de danza de calidad para exquisitos gourmets ávidos demovimiento corpóreo en estado puro. Lo dicho. Todo un lujo.

Entomo & OtrosAntípodas: Coreografía Alvaro Esteban LópezLongfade: Coreografía Elías Aguirre ImbernónEntomo: Coreografía Álvaro Esteban y Elías AguirreMúsica: Samuel Aguilar, CollageIluminación: Sergio G. DominguezKakiseni Festival, Black Box, Kuala Lumpur: 12, 14 y 16 de septiembre

Ferran Benavent Miralles

EA&AE. Entomo

Nota adhesiva

Revista DanzaEuropa, Enero 2011 http://www.danzaeuropa.net/site/es-issues/es-015.pdf http://www.danzaeuropa.net/site/es-issues/es-015.shtml

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Rosa Sanz Hermida. ABC local-Burgos 31/07/2010danza urbana que combina movimientos robóticos, break, imágenes congeladas, pero que, por fortuna, ha utilizado en la mayoría de los casos, la kínesis como medio y no como fin en sí mismo, integrándola de forma orgánica y, en consecuencia, abriéndose a su potencial significativo. Buen ejemplo de esto lo constituyen sobre todo los trabajos de Elías Aguirre y Álvaro Esteban, con su dúo «Entomo»

Rosa Sanz Hermida. ABC local-Burgos 01/08/2010la creatividad de «Entomo», que recuerda al Bosco en su técnica hiperrealista —pincelada minuciosa, brillante, sutil— y su fabuloso y alucinante imaginario, de estremecedora belleza

Entomo, de los coreógrafos españoles Elías Aguirre y Álvaro Esteban, por la gestualidad lograda a partir de la investigación sobre el movimiento de los insectos.Leer más en Suite101: Premios del Certamen Iberoamericano de Coreografía Alicia Alonso http://festivalesculturales.suite101.net/article.cfm/premios-del-certamen-iberoamericano-de-coreografia-alicia-alonso#ixzz0w2kVkGck

Entomo, de los coreógrafos españoles Elías Aguirre y Álvaro Esteban, por la madurez con que conciben esta pieza, que a partir de la investigación de la gestualidad de los insectos logra el punto de partida para un dúo original, atrevido y que despierta en el espectador numerosas implicaciones existenciales y filosóficas.http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/07/08/cuba-y-espana-ganadores-del-vii-certamen-iberoamericano-de-coreografia-%C2%ABalicia-alonso%C2%BB-cic%C2%B4-2010/

Award Winning Spanish Dance Duo “entomo”

www.vimeo.com/eaae www.facebook.com/entomoeaae

EA&AE, Elías Aguirre and Álvaro Esteban presents, after four years and more than 100performances in 19 countries of 5 continents and cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin,Stockholm, Singapur, Manila, Cairo, Washington, Chicago, New York, S.Francisco, Havana, SaoPaulo and Reunion Island, their award-winning contemporary dance duo.

Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine editor, writes:“A surprise came in the form of a new piece that won the Havana choreographic competition, a duet calledEntomo. An insect dance to end all insect dances, it was created and performed by two very cool guys fromMadrid: Elías Aguirre and Alvaro Esteban. The duet is sharply observed, ingenious, playful, and stunninglycruel.”

http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/November-2010/Highlights-of-Havana-Ballet-Festival

Amy Stafford, former arts editor for Surface Magazine in SF and also wrote for the New ArtExaminer in the late 90's, says: “your work is a crowd pleaser, it makes contemporary dance andmovement accessible to a large audience who may not be familiar with contemporary dance. Itmerges performance art, dance, street culture and science and it is interesting for both youngpeople and adults.”

ENTOMO Prizes:1. First Prize at the Certamen Internacional Burgos-New York 2010. (Kazuko Hirabayashipresident of the Jury)2. First Prize at the VII Certamen Iberoamericano de Coreografía Alicia Alonso CIC’2010.“boundless field of creativity that sparked one of the most strong ovations of the festival”.International Ballet Festival of Havana 2010.

3. Premiered at the Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid 2009:• Audience Prize

• Royal Conservatory of Professional Dance Prize• Artist Residency

Press Reviews:1.Review after performing at García Lorca Hall of the Great Theater of Havana filled with 2000 locations and sharingprogram with Paloma Herrera, Marcelo Gomes, Sarah Lane and Jose Manuel Carreño.

07.10.10 INTERNATIONAL BALLET FESTIVAL OF HAVANA 2010 with such figures as Tamara Rojo, Malakhov, etc...“Warmly were received the winning choreographies of the VII Ibero-American ChoreographyContest ALICIA ALONSO 2010: Espectral, of Maysabel Pintado (Cuba) and Entomo, of ElíasAguirre/Álvaro Esteban (Spain). Whose world premiere took place on Saturday at the García LorcaHall of the GTH. This two moments of pure dance presented an original and contemporaryvocabulary the first one, and a boundless field of creativity that sparked one of the most strongovations of the Festival, the second one”.

http://granma.co.cu/2010/11/08/cultura/artic01.html 2.Entomo, by spanish choreographers Elias Aguirre and Alvaro Esteban, for the maturity with whichthey conceive this piece, that starting from the investigation on insects movements achieves thepoint of departure of an original and bold duet that awakens different existential andphilosophical implications.

http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/07/08/cuba-y-espana-ganadores-delviicertameniberoamericano-de-coreografia-%C2%ABalicia-alonso%C2%BB-cic%C2%B42010/

3. ItalyE poi accade di incontrare due giovani artisti spagnoli, non conosci nulla di loro e non potrestimai sospettare il talento innato, rivelatosi solo al momento della loro esibizione. Ci parli “fuoriscena” come si fa con due persone qualunque, poche parole di circostanza, scambiate più percortesia che per dovere professionale. È nel momento della loro esibizione che percepisci di averedi fronte due perfomer di assoluta bravura. Il loro lavoro si intitola Entomo e i due si chiamanoElias Aguirre e Alvaro Esteban. Sul palcoscenico sono due esseri umani capaci di trasformarsi ininsetti, dal ragno alla cavalletta, dallo scorpione alla mosca. Flessuosi e dotati di una fisicitàimpressionante. Corpi snodabili dalle movenze di assoluta leggerezza. Una prima nazionale e unaprima volta in Italia, i giovani danzatori sono i vincitori del Premio Certamen internacionalBurgos di New York, assegnatoli nel 2010, oltre a quello di Alicia Alonso CIC, il Premio delPublico Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid. La loro esibizione è coinvolgente e sensuale, si prestaad essere una dimostrazione fisico (entomologica) di come realmente si muovono gli insetti. Non acaso: i due spagnoli si sono conosciuti in discoteca e condividono la stessa passione perl'entomologia.Da qui nasce Entomo, accattivante e ironica prova d'autore di rara bellezza espressiva, moltoapplaudita dal pubblico del festival.

http://it.paperblog.com/se-la-bellezza-salvera-il-mondo-la-danza-salva-il-teatro-e-l-arte-le-coreografie-di-danza-teatro-esaltano-il-festival-inequilibrio-di-castiglioncello-1269035/

4.....Spaniards Alvaro Esteban and Elias Aguirre have reincarnated in two insects on the stage. To thesounds of sea waves, birdtwitter, sounds of cicadas they represented grasshoppers, butterflies,flies, ants and other, only to them known, insects. Public was immensely surprised, how it ispossible to transform ordinary hands and feet into the insects' pads?… And dancers wanted to tell

to the audience: that an insect and a human have really pretty much in common. While watchingi thought: «Well … We do have much in common: A human, as well as an insect, can easily bedestroyed in a moment on his lifepath by the force, greater than he. Unfortunately, i didn'tmanaged to ask where and how these "entomologists" peeped the "insect dance"...

http://news.vitebsk.cc/2011/11/17/ifmc-2011-den-pervyiy-istina-v-iskusstve/ 5.Entomo, by the two spanish choreographers Elias Aguirre and Alvaro Esteban, for the gestureachieved through the research on insect movement.Read more on Suite101: Premios del Certamen Iberoamericano de Coreografía Alicia Alonso

http://festivalesculturales.suite101.net/article.cfm/premios-del-certamen-iberoamericanodecoreografia-alicia-alonso#ixzz0w2kVkGck

6. ...Moreover spanish and canadian dancers have left the most stunning impressions here. Bothduets, spanish and canadian ones, have presented a wonderful unique author's dance techniques,analoques to which you may not find, perhaps, in the whole world....

http://www.vitnews.by/file.axd?file=2011%2F11%2FV-rab-134-8.pdf 7.The main tendency from the moment, when IFMC was created, was that it aimed and still aims at theintellectual audience. This stage has seen various dancing techniques, at times even hard for perception.But the preference was still always given to intellectual dance. Throughout years the organisators offestival are searching for author's dancing techniques and are trying to predict, whether they will beinteresting for audience. The duet of Alvaro Esteban and Elias Aguirre, they presented their choreographicminiature "Entomo" at the Gala, was such a discovery for IFMC's audience at the present festival. TheSpanish dancers were real masters of their bodies and everybody could draw an analogy with the world ofinsects without effort and understand the dance inspired by insect movements....

http://www.tio.by/news/88488.... Spaniards Alvaro Esteban and Elias Aguirre which have shown a choreographic miniature "Entomo" – thedance inspired by movements of insects - became a so-called stunning climax of the first part of the Gala.The titled Spaniards arrived at Vitebsk for few days only – specially to take part in the Gala and also to givean open master class: movements of insects in dance. Today early in the morning dancers have returned toMadrid.

http://www.tio.by/news/8762

9. Egypt Independent Sat, 31/03/2012

The clear standout piece among a group of pieces well worth watching was "entomo," a duet bySpanish performers Elias Aguirre and Alvaro Estaban. At times they seemed to be distinctly non-human creatures playing and fighting, and at other times looked like ordinary guys you might seedancing at a club. The effect was fresh and delightfully weird

http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/743106