GALERA PERFORMA
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The 2021 edition of GALERA PERFORMA took place between 27th July and 7th August. During two weeks, there were open workshops which explored performance and live art vocabularies and approaches. We worked on the body, space, image, objects, actions and text; primarily guided by methodologies developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña y La Pocha Nostra.
The participants in GALERA PERFORMA 2021 created an intergenerational community formed by Ana Azorín Molín, Anabel Rodríguez Silva, Claudia Antón Cáceres, Juan Antonio García Beteta, María José García Olivares, Maribel Sánchez Alonso, Rocío Cáceres Triguero, Valeria Cayuela Carayol, y Violeta Ruiz Azorín, with documentation by Reme Domingo de Leonés.
GALERA PERFORMA 2021 culminated on 7th August with a final performance event titled GALERA, a partial portrait. The piece was inspired by the essences of the Altiplano (Granada's high plateaux) and the unique character of Galera. The audience's experience began by walking to the top of the Cerro de la Virgen, which overlooks the village and has a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Along the way, the audience encountered in passing a number of musical and performance fragments which created a feeling of ascent and elevation. Once spectators were gathered in front of the chapel, the main part of the performance began. Using as a departure point Bonifacio Sola García's autobiographical novel El Portacho, Memorias de un Barrio, the piece presented a kaleidoscope of images and actions. Although poetic rather than narrative, and therefore open to associative interpretation, the performance was in direct relationship to Galera, its character and history - drawing on material developed throughout the two-week workshops. The piece was timed so that it's ending coincided with the traditional summer firework display.
The 2021 edition of GALERA PERFORMA took place between 27th July and 7th August. During two weeks, there were open workshops which explored performance and live art vocabularies and approaches. We worked on the body, space, image, objects, actions and text; primarily guided by methodologies developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña y La Pocha Nostra.
The participants in GALERA PERFORMA 2021 created an intergenerational community formed by Ana Azorín Molín, Anabel Rodríguez Silva, Claudia Antón Cáceres, Juan Antonio García Beteta, María José García Olivares, Maribel Sánchez Alonso, Rocío Cáceres Triguero, Valeria Cayuela Carayol, y Violeta Ruiz Azorín, with documentation by Reme Domingo de Leonés.
GALERA PERFORMA 2021 culminated on 7th August with a final performance event titled GALERA, a partial portrait. The piece was inspired by the essences of the Altiplano (Granada's high plateaux) and the unique character of Galera. The audience's experience began by walking to the top of the Cerro de la Virgen, which overlooks the village and has a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Along the way, the audience encountered in passing a number of musical and performance fragments which created a feeling of ascent and elevation. Once spectators were gathered in front of the chapel, the main part of the performance began. Using as a departure point Bonifacio Sola García's autobiographical novel El Portacho, Memorias de un Barrio, the piece presented a kaleidoscope of images and actions. Although poetic rather than narrative, and therefore open to associative interpretation, the performance was in direct relationship to Galera, its character and history - drawing on material developed throughout the two-week workshops. The piece was timed so that it's ending coincided with the traditional summer firework display.
Photographs by Reme Domingo de Leonés
GALERA PERFORMA is an artistic project especially dedicated to Galera, aiming to offer something new and creative for the village and the region. GALERA PERFORMA is open to all those who want to develop their creativity and offers an opportunity to explore performance and live art as scenic arts. The project is supported and funded by the Town Hall of Galera and the Diputación of Granada.
GALERA PERFORMA is a project for and by Galera, seeking to mark this peculiar moment in its history. It will take as its point of departure the novel of local interest El Portacho. Memorias de un Barrio (finalist in 2008 of the 'Román Planas y Mir Award'), and which was written by Bonifacio Sola García - el Boni - esteemed neighbour of Galera. With this text as a stimulus, and with the contributions by the project's participants, we will create a poetic kaleidoscope of images and actions inspired by Galera. This final piece will be presented as an outdoor performance on 7th August 2021.
GALERA PERFORMA is a project for and by Galera, seeking to mark this peculiar moment in its history. It will take as its point of departure the novel of local interest El Portacho. Memorias de un Barrio (finalist in 2008 of the 'Román Planas y Mir Award'), and which was written by Bonifacio Sola García - el Boni - esteemed neighbour of Galera. With this text as a stimulus, and with the contributions by the project's participants, we will create a poetic kaleidoscope of images and actions inspired by Galera. This final piece will be presented as an outdoor performance on 7th August 2021.
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No previous experience is necessary to take part, and the workshops are open to people of all ages and abilities.
These face to face workshops will focus on performance and live art vocabularies, and we will explore fundamentals such as movement, space, voice and objects. The workshops will take place in Galera between Tuesday 27th July 2021 and Friday 6th August, and will adapt to the participants' availability. |
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To register your interest, and be part of the workshops on performance and live art, fill out this form. Once we have gathered the details and preferences of those interested, we will be in touch. If you have any questions, please write to pablopakula @ gmail.com with GALERA PERFORMA as the subject of your email. |
Video in Spanish of he 1st informative chat (3/04/2021)
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What is performance and live art?
Unlike conventional theatre, performance and live art do not rely on a fictional frame, a linear narrative, not psychologically constructed characters. They are interdisciplinary artistic mediums which are highly experimental. Originating in the avant-garde movements of the early 20th Century, they continued their development in the decades of 1960 and 1970. Performance and live art are ephemeral art forms, taking place in the here and now of the live moment, capitalising on the direct contact with their audience, and activating the imagination and subjectivity of each spectator. In performance and live art, images and action, materiality and corporality, musicality and structure have the same importance (if not more) as the spoken word. As art historian RoseLee Goldberg says, these mediums have become "the essential vehicle for artistic communication in the new millennium".
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About Pablo Pakula (director of GALERA PERFORMA)
Pablo Pakula (Alicante 1983), arrived to the UK in 2000, with a scholarship to undertake the International Baccalaureate at Atlantic College (Wales). From 2002 to 2006, he took a BA in Theatre Studies at the University of Kent (Canterbury). After graduating, he co-founded the performance company Accidental Collective. That same year he was given a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to undertake a PhD on the Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski, a PhD he completed in 2010.
Pablo Pakula has been teaching theatre and performance at Higher Education since 2007, working at institutions such as the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, Central School of Speech and Drama, y University of Birmingham, where he has been teaching since 2017 as a permanent Teaching Fellow.
Besides his teaching and his collaborative practice as a member of Accidental Collective, Pablo Pakula has developed since 2014 a practice as a solo live artist. He has shown his work in a wide variety of contexts, from galleries and museums, to historic buildings and public spaces, studio theatres and club nights. His relationship to Galera goes back to 2000, when his mother bought a cave-house. In September 2019, he produced and hosted STOMPING GROUND!, a week-long residency in Galera for a group of eight international performance-makers and live artists.
Pablo Pakula (Alicante 1983), arrived to the UK in 2000, with a scholarship to undertake the International Baccalaureate at Atlantic College (Wales). From 2002 to 2006, he took a BA in Theatre Studies at the University of Kent (Canterbury). After graduating, he co-founded the performance company Accidental Collective. That same year he was given a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to undertake a PhD on the Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski, a PhD he completed in 2010.
Pablo Pakula has been teaching theatre and performance at Higher Education since 2007, working at institutions such as the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, Central School of Speech and Drama, y University of Birmingham, where he has been teaching since 2017 as a permanent Teaching Fellow.
Besides his teaching and his collaborative practice as a member of Accidental Collective, Pablo Pakula has developed since 2014 a practice as a solo live artist. He has shown his work in a wide variety of contexts, from galleries and museums, to historic buildings and public spaces, studio theatres and club nights. His relationship to Galera goes back to 2000, when his mother bought a cave-house. In September 2019, he produced and hosted STOMPING GROUND!, a week-long residency in Galera for a group of eight international performance-makers and live artists.
