Soma, Bodies in Free Fall
Synopsis
“Corpus: A body is a collection of pieces, of bits, of limbs, of zones, of states, of functions. Heads, hands and cartilage, burns, softnesses, spurts, sleep, digestion, horripilation, excitement, breathing, digesting, reproducing, recovering, saliva, synovia, twists, cramps and moles.
It is a collection of collections, corpus corporum, whose unity remains a question to itself.”… J.L.NANCY
SOMA is an experimental work that combines different theatrical and technological languages, trying to create a “scenic system capable of sustaining itself as the germ of a spectacular event ”*.
It is based on the relationship between the body-object-puppet and its postmodern hybridization, constituting “the corpus of a new flesh of the stage”: organic body-mechanical artificial body-digital body.
Its narrative organization is centered on the theater of figures.
Puppets and objects are the protagonists of a dramaturgy of their own, based on the image and the relationship between objects and actors-puppeteers, as a heterogeneous machinery to “create poetry ”*.
Credits
Creation and direction: Miguel Angel Gutiérrez
Texts: Vicente Huidobro, Jean Luc Nancy
Text of “La cena”: Paloma Domínguez
Playwright: Miguel Angel Gutiérrez
Assistant director: Cynthia G. Bordes
Executive Producer: Armando Amezcua, Miriam L. Guerrero, Cynthia G. Bordes
Lighting design: Miguel Angel Gutierrez
Costume design and execution: Andrés David and Bernardo Constantino
Costume prototype: Laurine Laboulais
Original music and sound design: Abigail Vásquez
Surround sound engineering and programming: Ricardo Arzola Arana “Tiburón”.
Puppets design: Miguel Angel Gutiérrez
Puppets realization: Américo García, Lisa Marchanf, Claude Rodrígue, Laurine Laboulais, Jimena Valencia, Mildred Hernández, Rubén Castellanos, Yaxel Gutiérrez, Zian Gutiérrez, Miguel Angel Gutiérrez
Animation, video mapping, programming and manipulation of interactive technology: Bichi Soul Producciones – Tiburón Arzola, Michiko Amano Erami, Ana Lorena Amador Amano, Sabas Alvarado and María Luisa Guzmán.
Body training and stage movement consulting: Paloma Martínez
Vocal training and consulting: Paloma Domínguez
Technical and workshop manager: Américo García
Performing Arts Ensemble technical team: Horacio Cicero, Fabián Flores, Enrique Rodríguez, Abraham Ríos, Alejandro Aguirre, Chino Ferro, Rubén, El Ojos, Henze, César Pelón and Jorge Toríz.
Voice-over: Luna Tamayo and Sandra Carvajal
Voice Recording: Ernesto Cano’s Huehuecuicatl Studio
Recording engineer: César Herrada
Press and distribution: Alejandra M. González
Graphic design: None Studio ®; Humberto Vanhuten, René Hernández
Photography: Sergio Plácido
Performers: Alejandro Frutos/Fredy López Rivera/Jennifer Cruz/Sandra Carvajal/Elisa Gómez/Noemí Saavedra/Francisco Durán/Luna Tamayo/Renata Muñóz/Araceli “Azul” Sandoval/Yedinka Acevedo
Alternate: Miriam López
Co-Director/Administration: Ana Zatarain
General Assistance Luna Morena: Luisa Guzman
Press and diffusion Luna Morena: Alejandra M. González
Coordination Luna Morena: Marisol Méndez
Management Luna Morena: Carlos Arnulfo Díaz
University of Guadalajara:
Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities: Jorge Enrique Zambrano Ambrosio,
Acknowledgements: María Luisa Meléndrez Bayardo, Lic. Ana Carolina Ruezca Gómez, Pyrrha Gladys Grodman and her legacy, the UDG-UDS foundation team and the University of Guadalajara.