Theater

PACHAKUNA: GUARDIANES DE LOS ANDES

  • De La Patogallina
  • Dirección de Martín Erazo
  • Country: Chili
  • Premiere: 2024
  • Target audience: All audiences
  • Length: 60 minutes

La Patogallina, one of the most important street theater companies in the country, prepares this parade with sculptures of three Andean animals that call to reconnect with nature and history.

A huge silver sculpture appears in the city. A condor, a puma and a snake make up the imposing image. This dreamlike representation installs the power and magic of Andean culture in the middle of the city.

Culture for which this trilogy is a fundamental icon. The three sacred animals have emerged from the mineral heart of the Andes and the confines of time, crossing centuries of history to present themselves before the eyes of the inhabitants of our cities.

These silver spirits come with a very clear message: we must reconnect with the laws of nature, with history, with the cycle of water and the pulse of the winds.

They have come out of their eternal rest to bring this message to our cities, and they will only be able to return to the “Apus” if citizens listen to their message, and are capable of articulating collective actions, where dance and music are protagonists.

Images:

Credits:

Original idea, direction and dramaturgy:

Martín Erazo

Cast:

Sandra Figueroa, Pilar Salinas, Victoria González, Laura Maldonado, Francisca Artaza, Rodrigo Rojas, Eduardo Moya, Juan Ferino, Adrián Díaz, Hugo Rivas, Linus Sánchez, Josefa Mora, Mirelli Parcigate, Cristian Arce, Francisco Navarrete

Musical Direction:

Alejandra Muñoz

Musician:

Jaime Molina

Integral design:

Pablo de la Fuente

Puppet design:

Pablo de la Fuente, Gonzalo Mella and Rodrigo Rojas

Making dolls and props:

La Patogallina and Gonzalo Mella Workshop

Costumes:

Laura Maldonado

Sound:

Pablo Contreras

Lighting:

Martín Erazo

General production:

Lorena Ojeda Sepúlveda

Co-production:

Fundación Teatro a Mil

Biographies:

La Patogallina

Theater company born in 1996, founded by artists from various disciplines who mix to give life to their first experimental and street work called A Sangre e Pato. As a result of this first production, they are invited to a series of international festivals, which begins the group's professional work. The year 1999 brought the establishment of their theatrical proposal, giving shape to El Húsar de la Muerte, under the artistic direction of Martin Erazo, a work with which they toured much of America and Europe. This work becomes the starting point of the formal organization of La Patogallina. From now on the company stands out for its own mix; elements of cinematographic narrative, live music, tragicomedy, political theater, the construction of poetic images, the manipulation of objects and dolls, and a marked line of physical theater in the performance.


Martin Erazo

Outstanding theater director, audiovisual director and screenwriter, with audiovisual and cinematographic studies at Instituto Arcos and EICTV (Cuba), Diploma at the La Mancha Theater School, International School of Gesture and Image. Founder and artistic director of the La Patogallina Collective, from 1996 to date, and co-director and co-founder of the sound intervention company Teatro del Sonido (2012, to date), co-director of FITKA (Street Theater Festival), director of the Festival of Performing Arts of Isla Negra FESTINE. He has held workshops, seminars, theater conferences, acting, self-management, improvisation and scenic creation in Chile and abroad. In addition, he has been a teacher at the Catholic University of Chile, Finis Terrae and Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. He has directed shows in Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia. In Chile he has directed various shows by artists and companies; Virtual Circus, Compañía Movimiento, Ismael Oddó, Ana Tijoux, Stefan Kramer, Lalo Prieto, La Juana Teatro and Los Nadie Circo, among others.

He has directed massive shows such as the openings of the Altazor Awards, opening for the Víctor Jara Stadium name change ceremony, opening of the ITFOK India 2010 festival, the closing show of the 2015 Teatro a Mil International Festival, The Gramophone; the public intervention Neruda is flying, and the inaugural show of the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil 2017, Without Borders.


Martin Erazo's Awards:

2004 - APES Award

Best play of the year for 1907


2005 - APES Award

Best play of the years for El año de la flor negra.


Previous dates:

January 2024

Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil - Renca, Santiago, Peñaflor, La Pintana, San Miguel, San Joaquín, San Bernardo, Cerrillos, Ñuñoa, Puente Alto, Lampa, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Quilicura


January 2024

Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil - Buin, Pudahuel, Quinta Normal, Vitacura, Casablanca, San Felipe, Talagante, Independencia, Machalí, Temuco, Coquimbo, Concepción


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