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THE MATCH

SPAIN

VERO CENDOYA'S COMPANY

Summary

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The Match is a dance and football show, created by the choreographer Vero Cendoya.  This is the theater version of the multi-award-winning show, which premiered in September 2015 at the Fira de Teatre de Tàrrega. This new version of the show premiered at the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, in February 2018. Five dancers and five footballers. A football field. A referee. Gathered in a peculiar game with its own rules. We will use this dialogue to ask ourselves vital questions as well. We will talk about life through football and dance. We take five dancers to a soccer field and in turn we will expose five soccer players to a theater audience. All this to reflect on questions such as: • What values prevail in our society? • What are the true needs of the human being? • The reality about economic power and intellectual power • Where is the line between sports and entertainment? 
 
The street show has been the winner of the MORITZ AWARD FOR THE BEST SHOW AT FIRA DE TÁRREGA 2015. And also winner of the BARCELONA CRITICS AWARD 2015, as the best show in the “Carrer Arts” category. Finalist for the MAX awards for best street show and for best choreography. The company continues in its work of combining contemporary dance with its cultural antagonists. This time it intends to confront the "spectacle" of football  and confront dance with football, which is an opposing type of performance, physically and sociologically. In The Match, the performers and audience will experience coexistence and artistic dialogue between these two styles of performance.

Company

Created in 2008, Inc. Vero Cendoya is one of the most active young Catalan companies. Its works are based on working with the body, specifically in the search for new languages of movement. Its director, Vero Cendoya, has a long career as a dancer for various companies in Spain and abroad. Since she began to develop her own work and choreography, she has focused on the interaction between dance and other arts. She also works in the field of artistic painting and children's book illustration. The daily combination of two artistic disciplines in her life has made the border between them disappear. She often dances to the themes she is painting, or paints what she dances.

Presentations

Free Zone Festivities, Barcelona
GREC FESTIVAL, Barcelona
Teatro da Corte, Turin, Italy
PASSAGE FESTIVAL Denmark
PASSAGE FESTIVAL Sweden
ConteS/Xting SPORT - Berlin
CLAPS, Brescia, Italy
DANAE FESTIVAL 2016, Milan, Italy
FITKA FESTIVAL, Santiago de Chile, Chile
FESTINE FESTIVAL, Isla Negra, Chile
NOMAD FESTIVAL, San Salvador, El Salvador
FID, Barcelona, Spain
BOULEVARD FESTIVAL, Hertogen, The Netherlands
SPOFFIN FESTIVAL, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
FIBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ON THE VERGE FESTIVAL, Liverpool, UK
FLOWER MARKET, Barcelona, Spain
QUINZENA DE LA DANSA, Esplugues, Spain
LA STRADA FESTIVAL, Graz, Austria
PLATES, Albacete, Spain
TANZ IM AUGUST, Berlin, Germany

Cast & Crew

Direction and choreography: Vero Cendoya
Music Director: Adele Madau
Cast: Sarah Anglada, Tina Halford, Linn Johanson,
Natalia d'Anunzzio, Dory Sanchez, Gaston de la Torre,
Reynaldo Zerpa, Babou Cham, Adrian Nieto,
Gabrielle Frillici and Jon Lopez
Voice over: Blanca Portillo
Texts: Eduardo Galeano
Costumes: Myriam Ibañez and Viviani Calbjeti
Distribution in Latin America: Francesca Ceccotti

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