La compañía Teatro de Ocasión
La directora Alejandra Rojas Pinto
Discipline: Puppet theater
Duration: 40 minutes
Recommended for: General Public
Language: Spanish
This show by La Huella Teatro is the result of research carried out in 2005 on the Andean world’s oral storytelling tradition of rituals surrounding death. According to these tales, the only way of crossing the Dead Sea is on the nose of a black dog.
When one of Sunquyuq’s dearest inhabitants dies, the town turns to Justina, the owner of Allqu Yana, the only black dog in the area. Justine is not willing to give him up, not even for Gerta Gillin, the woman who is apparently going to be the next to pass away. Allqu Yana has to make a difficult decision: either stay with his mistress, Justina, who has looked after him for years or accompany Gerta Gillin on her final journey.
Allqu Yana (black dog in Quechua) is a Teatro a Mil Foundation coproduction and the result of a 2021 collaboration with Teatro de Ocasión in the middle of the pandemic to rethink how Chilean companies create and interact.
LA COMPAÑÍA
La Huella Teatro
Formed more than 16 years ago, this company’s hallmark is the search for identity-based theater connected to the human and geographical landscape of Chile’s north. Their creations are based on long periods of field research, gathering stories in their original languages from the inhabitants of ancestral villages. They have performed ...
LA COMPAÑÍA
Teatro de Ocasión
Founded in 2010, this company’s style fuses theater, culture and pop music, with shows created especially for early childhood. Their plays Una mañanita partí, El viaje redondo and TUM have seen them visit all of Chile, as well as countries like Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Bosnia Herzegovina, South Korea, ...
LA DIRECTORA
Alejandra Rojas Pinto
This actress and cultural consultant has more than 20 years’ experience linked to the Big North. Not only is she director of La Huella Teatro, but she also organizes the Identidades Festival, an international performing arts event in the Atacama Desert. Her creative work has been marked by anthropological research, ...
CAST & CREW
Directed by: Alejandra Rojas Pinto | Written by: Amarilis Rojas and Alejandra Rojas | Music and narration: Teatro de Ocasión | Cast: Valentina Escorza, Verónica Torres, María Fernanda Carrasco, César Espinoza | Puppet design and creation: Tomas O‘Ryan | Wardrobe: Daniel Bagnara | Lighting: Franne Goic | Technical producer: Romina Roa.
COLLABORATORS
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