URBAN INTERVENTIONS
Concept and direction: Marcela Sánchez Mota, Octavio Zeivy
Performers: Inés Herrera, Marsel Toledo, Verónica Wong, Ángel Lara, César Pérez, Edgar Espinosa, Emmanuel Fragoso
Lights: Jésica Elizondo
Masks' design: Marcela Sánchez Mota
Costumes: Foco alAire producciones
Video: Nicolás Chirokoff
Sound design, selection and mix: Foco alAire producciones
Production: Foco alAire producciones, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – FONCA, Espacio de menos a MÁS.
Duration: 45 min.
Premiere: 2012
“LOStheULTRAMAR appear and break the streets to astonish the passer. Walking in procession through the streets and visiting the parks. They settle down in places to interact and share with the public their dances. LOStheULTRAMAR represent a kind of a tribe, a product of the globalized world, they wear dark suits and booties with cut fingertips, keep a gourd in their pockets, and carry screen industrial luminaires with masks on their heads, that function as headdress and remind us of the traditions of many tribes of the world.”
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PERFORMANCE-CONCERT
Concept and direction: Marcela Sánchez Mota, Octavio Zeivy
Performers: Inés Herrera, Marsel Toledo, Verónica Wong, Ángel Lara, César Pérez, Edgar Espinosa, Emmanuel Fragoso
Lights: Foco alAire, Jésica Elizondo
Masks' designs: Marcela Sánchez Mota
Costumes: Foco alAire producciones
Video: Nicolás Chirokoff
Sound design, selection and mix: Foco alAire producciones
Production: Foco alAire producciones, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – FONCA, Espacio de menos a MÁS.
Duration: 90 min.
Premiere: 2014
“In essence, the scenic proposal is the recreation of fictional and metaphoric images, the re-signification of a Voice through a game of subtracting unique and memorable singers: the Voice; and animate it / them, bring them to life through the interpretation of another body.
The supra-reality strips the souls and the bodies that live only through a voice that isn´t their own. Singing, as a disturbing element for the environment and for the observers, crudely exposes the tremendous fragility of the human being and the reverberation of its wishes.”
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Foco alAire producciones (Germany, 1999) is directed by Marcela Sánchez Mota and Octavio Zeivy. The company Foco alAire has performed in Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Mexico and Argentina. Already in Mexico, in 2005, Foco alAire had the premiere of “Are you really lost?” that was invited to the International Festival in Buenos Aires. In 2016, they were invited with two pieces to the International Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, México.
The directors, Marcela and Octavio, have joined their experience and scenic language in a unique proposal and are researching with the emphasis in body interpretation. Their pieces “Idea de una Pasión”, “LOStheULTRAMAR” (National Prize 2012 in México) and “laAUDICIÓN” were performed many times and received special recognitions and invitations. Some of their other pieces are “Stattwald”, “Doors”, “Papers & Nostalgias”, “Doña punto G Neu-Lite”.
Their artistic work is fundamentally alternative in the Mexican scene.
Marcela Sánchez Mota. Sociologist, writer, dancer and scenic director. Studied classical ballet and contemporary dance. Founding member of Utopía Danza-Teatro (Mexico) where she has worked as a performer, writer and choreographer for 10 years. Recipient of the Tanz Projekt scholarship in Cologne, Germany. Researcher in corporal/neutral masks (based on technique of Jacques Lecoq). Recipient of the Virginia Fábregas Award (Mexico). Editor of dance column in the national Mexican newspapers and reviews. She took part in art projects with the Mexican Institute in Paris, France. Her first novel “La otra piel” has been awarded the National Prize Juan Rulfo for First Novel in 2010. She directs the company Foco alAire alongside Octavio Zeivy.
Octavio Zeivy. After a rigorous formation in classical ballet, he started his choreographic career in a number of companies. In 1999 joined the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany. Later entered the Institute for the Arts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (HKA) Arnhem in Holland. In 1999 founded the company Foco alAire producciones in Germany. Octavio Zeivy returned to Mexico in 2005 and created the production “Are you really lost?” for which in 2009 in the International Festival de Buenos Aires received the Honorary Mention, as well as the Award for Best Lighting with the piece “Doña dot G Neu-Lite”. The Award Premio Chilango-FMX nominated him for innovation and avant-garde in the performing arts of Mexico City. The production “Idea de una Pasión”, co-directed with Marcela Sánchez Mota, was highly selected for many Art Scenic Festivals. Octavio is a member of National Creators System (SNCA) of FONCA from 2011. Marcela & Octavio have received the National Choreography Award in 2012, Premio Nacional de Danza INBA-UAM-UNAM with the production “LOStheULTRAMAR”.