Dance | Music | Theatre
"Indio Pavez appeals to a sensitive, empathetic connection of bodies, to the intimacy of affective bonds and to biographical stories understood as projections of the social and cultural sphere."
-Radio U. Chile
Dramaturge and Director: Pablo Zamorano Azócar | Interpreters: Valentina Pavez, Rodrigo Fernández, Héctor Gitano Pavez, Ariel Fernández, Gabriela Neira and Gonzalo Beltrán | Assistant Director: Gabriela Fernández Pavez | Scenography and Costumes: Nicoletta Fuentealba | Lighting: Gonzalo Muñoz | Sound: Gabriel Pavez | Graphic Design: Octavio Cañulef | Audiovisual Production: Hernán Pavez | Media and Marketing: Claudia Palominos | Photographs: Jorge Sánchez, Cristina Vargas, Gabriela Fernández and Pablo Selman | Production: Francisco Paco López
Pablo Zamorano
Director
Expanding the Limits of Dance Creation
Pablo is a performing artist and researcher. He holds a Bachelor in Arts with a concentration in Dance (2011) from the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de Chile, as well as postgraduate Master studies in Theater Direction (2014), and a Master in Performing Arts Practices and Visual Culture from Centro Nacional de Arte Museo Reina Sofia-ARTEA/ UCLM, Madrid, Spain (2018-2019). He currently seeks to generate a practice that at the same time merges and expands the disciplinary boundaries between pedagogy, performance, research and creation in dance. A broad field that generates new approaches and where the body in movement interacts with different artistic and social material elements, lines of thought and theoretical crossings. Pablo was also the director and choreographer of Deuda (presented in Santiago a Mil 2013), SentidoSeis (SaM 2017), Prácticas de vuelo (SaM 2018) and Plano Sutil (SaM 2021), among others.
Danza en Cruz
The company
25 Years of Rescuing Chilean Popular Culture
The company emerged from the union of two dancers, choreographers and teachers: Valentina Pavez and Rodrigo Fernández. Since its foundation in 1994, in Mexico, Danza en Cruz looks back onto 25 years of its contributions to the current Chilean culture. Its plays can be associated with a permanent search for a dance language, where the use of theatrical elements, gestures and intense technical work converge. The company’s source of contents is deeply rooted in Chile’s popular and traditional culture, rediscovering our identity and collecting images, atmospheres and feelings of our indigenous and mestizo origins, to achieve an updated creation process.
-Because it is a play that connects documents, texts, songs, folkloric dances, and the creation of its own language in order to think about choreo-dramaturgy from this starting point. It gathers, precisely, that very essence which could be the matrix of folkloric expression and in which dance, words, music, and storytelling are interwoven in order to communicate. "Here, the formal limits of the disciplinary parts of dance are blurred to better understand it and see it as a source of knowledge installed within the people. This knowledge should be validated, and deep questioning should emerge, far from those notions that we may have of ourselves. We are interested in generating a place of work where movement is voice, body, story, memory, oblivion, and remembrance," says director Pablo Zamorano.
-To learn more about the work of Danza en Cruz, a company that celebrates 25 years of trajectory and uninterrupted work, both in the creation of shows and training of dancers. Danza en Cruz has been a witness and an engine of the development of dance in Chile, defending independent dance, creating an indisputable signature that merges modern and contemporary languages and techniques with a creative spirit, based on dance and the contexts of traditional Chilean culture. A company that moves with ease in the idiosyncratic universe of Chile.
-Review the different press releases about the premiere, on Radio Nuevo Mundo, Radio Bío Bío and Radio U. de Chile
-Review the interview with director Pablo Zamorano on Tiempo de Danza
On Facebook, /DanzaenCruzChile
On Instagram, @ciadanzaencruz
COLABORA
Indio Pavez
By Compañía Danza en Cruz | Written and directed by Pablo Zamorano Azócar
- Chile
- Spanish
- 70 minutes
- + 9 años
A tribute to the folklorist Héctor Indio Pavez, a key figure of the movement Nueva Canción Chilena.
Indio Pavez is a dance, music and folklore performance based on the life and work of the singer Héctor Pavez, one of the most outstanding artists of the movement Nueva Canción Chilena. A story that invites us to reflect on the concepts of folklore, legacy and memory, starting from the biography of his interpreters: children, grandchildren and friends of the Pavez family. All of them construct a set of materials where historical, musical and social aspects of Héctor Pavez Casanova's life are revealed.
Indio Pavez was a folklorist and compiler born in Santiago de Chile. He is recognized as one of the most outstanding voices of the so-called Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song), a trend in the 60’s and 70’s which was inspired by traditional popular peasant and urban culture. It aimed at exploring protest songs: the use of the song as a weapon. Indio Pavez was part of a generation that worked hard for the realization and defense of Allende’s Unidad Popular and that, in exile, participated arduously for the end of the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
"Indio Pavez appeals to a sensitive, empathetic connection of bodies, to the intimacy of affective bonds and to biographical stories understood as projections of the social and cultural sphere."
-Radio U. Chile
Indio Pavez
By Compañía Danza en Cruz | Written and directed by Pablo Zamorano Azócar
- Chile
- Spanish
- 70 minutes
- + 9 años
A tribute to the folklorist Héctor Indio Pavez, a key figure of the movement Nueva Canción Chilena.
Indio Pavez is a dance, music and folklore performance based on the life and work of the singer Héctor Pavez, one of the most outstanding artists of the movement Nueva Canción Chilena. A story that invites us to reflect on the concepts of folklore, legacy and memory, starting from the biography of his interpreters: children, grandchildren and friends of the Pavez family. All of them construct a set of materials where historical, musical and social aspects of Héctor Pavez Casanova's life are revealed.
Indio Pavez was a folklorist and compiler born in Santiago de Chile. He is recognized as one of the most outstanding voices of the so-called Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song), a trend in the 60’s and 70’s which was inspired by traditional popular peasant and urban culture. It aimed at exploring protest songs: the use of the song as a weapon. Indio Pavez was part of a generation that worked hard for the realization and defense of Allende’s Unidad Popular and that, in exile, participated arduously for the end of the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
"Indio Pavez appeals to a sensitive, empathetic connection of bodies, to the intimacy of affective bonds and to biographical stories understood as projections of the social and cultural sphere."
-Radio U. Chile
Dramaturge and Director: Pablo Zamorano Azócar | Interpreters: Valentina Pavez, Rodrigo Fernández, Héctor Gitano Pavez, Ariel Fernández, Gabriela Neira and Gonzalo Beltrán | Assistant Director: Gabriela Fernández Pavez | Scenography and Costumes: Nicoletta Fuentealba | Lighting: Gonzalo Muñoz | Sound: Gabriel Pavez | Graphic Design: Octavio Cañulef | Audiovisual Production: Hernán Pavez | Media and Marketing: Claudia Palominos | Photographs: Jorge Sánchez, Cristina Vargas, Gabriela Fernández and Pablo Selman | Production: Francisco Paco López
Pablo Zamorano
Director
Expanding the Limits of Dance Creation
Pablo is a performing artist and researcher. He holds a Bachelor in Arts with a concentration in Dance (2011) from the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de Chile, as well as postgraduate Master studies in Theater Direction (2014), and a Master in Performing Arts Practices and Visual Culture from Centro Nacional de Arte Museo Reina Sofia-ARTEA/ UCLM, Madrid, Spain (2018-2019). He currently seeks to generate a practice that at the same time merges and expands the disciplinary boundaries between pedagogy, performance, research and creation in dance. A broad field that generates new approaches and where the body in movement interacts with different artistic and social material elements, lines of thought and theoretical crossings. Pablo was also the director and choreographer of Deuda (presented in Santiago a Mil 2013), SentidoSeis (SaM 2017), Prácticas de vuelo (SaM 2018) and Plano Sutil (SaM 2021), among others.
Danza en Cruz
The company
25 Years of Rescuing Chilean Popular Culture
The company emerged from the union of two dancers, choreographers and teachers: Valentina Pavez and Rodrigo Fernández. Since its foundation in 1994, in Mexico, Danza en Cruz looks back onto 25 years of its contributions to the current Chilean culture. Its plays can be associated with a permanent search for a dance language, where the use of theatrical elements, gestures and intense technical work converge. The company’s source of contents is deeply rooted in Chile’s popular and traditional culture, rediscovering our identity and collecting images, atmospheres and feelings of our indigenous and mestizo origins, to achieve an updated creation process.
-Because it is a play that connects documents, texts, songs, folkloric dances, and the creation of its own language in order to think about choreo-dramaturgy from this starting point. It gathers, precisely, that very essence which could be the matrix of folkloric expression and in which dance, words, music, and storytelling are interwoven in order to communicate. "Here, the formal limits of the disciplinary parts of dance are blurred to better understand it and see it as a source of knowledge installed within the people. This knowledge should be validated, and deep questioning should emerge, far from those notions that we may have of ourselves. We are interested in generating a place of work where movement is voice, body, story, memory, oblivion, and remembrance," says director Pablo Zamorano.
-To learn more about the work of Danza en Cruz, a company that celebrates 25 years of trajectory and uninterrupted work, both in the creation of shows and training of dancers. Danza en Cruz has been a witness and an engine of the development of dance in Chile, defending independent dance, creating an indisputable signature that merges modern and contemporary languages and techniques with a creative spirit, based on dance and the contexts of traditional Chilean culture. A company that moves with ease in the idiosyncratic universe of Chile.
-Review the different press releases about the premiere, on Radio Nuevo Mundo, Radio Bío Bío and Radio U. de Chile
-Review the interview with director Pablo Zamorano on Tiempo de Danza
On Facebook, /DanzaenCruzChile
On Instagram, @ciadanzaencruz
COLABORA