New Production:
Premiére of the new Alicia Soto-Hojarasca and Post Theater (España/Berlín/Tokyo/New York) coproduction named "Super Gravity-Zero Gravity" at Festival de las Artes de Salamanca on 13 June .
DECEMBER 2007
NOVELTIES 2007-2008
· PREPARATION OF A NEW SPECTACLE OF STREET DANCE AND THEATRE. Première in May 2008
·PREMIÉRE OF THE NEW PRODUCTION “Desire Creation 2007”AT THE “Tenth Theatre Fair of Castilla y León in Ciudad Rodrigo”.
It’s about a renewed version of “Desire”, with a lighting design realized by Miguel Ángel Camacho, a new theatrical directorship realized by the director, and a choreographic revision and the presence of texts of the writer Michael Houellebecq. The result is a dynamic spectacle with a closed dramatic play and a same theatrical and dance strength.
· RESIDENT COMPANYENT COMPANY
The Company Alicia Soto-Hojarasca has become Resident Company of the theatre of Serrada, Valladolid, by getting the autograph of the local authorities of Serrada in May of 2007. It’s for the first time that a company of the Community of Castilla y León signs an agreement with the local authorities.
By signing this agreement the local authorities concede the theatre and its facilities to the company. As far as the company is concerned, the company takes on realizing an ambitious project of cultural share and promotion, based in discovering dance and approaching it to the public. This it will do step by step: beginning with the youngest ones, attracting young people, approaching to the adults and finally involve the oldest ones.
The project is consists of two programs:
1. “DERVIC”, Danza Educacional en la Ruta del Vino (Educational Dance in the Itinerary of the Wine). This program is directed by Serrada and the Community of Medina del Campo, and consists of classes of contemporary dance for young people and adolescents; classes of Pilates for adults; and exhibitions and shows of video-dance.
2. “TYMID”, Taller Internacional de Multimedia y Danza (International Workshop of Multimedia and Dance). TYMID is a project based in the exchange with other international professionals and artists that stand out in the world of dance by working from a new aspect. This world of dance is about urban dance related to folkloric roots and the world of information technology and multimedia: hip-hop, vertical dance, break-dance, multimedia dance, etc.
The goal of this ambitious project is to spread contemporary dance mainly among adolescents, to consolidate a future public of dance, and to build a structure and a professional web of dance. This can be achieved by activities and exchange with other similar structures of other productive communities and international cultures.
NOVEMBER
2006
We
are pleased to anounce the premier of "DESIRE", the new production
from Hojarasca Dance Company, the 24th of November at Casa de las Artes
in Laguna de Duero (Valladolid-Spain)
* photograph: MASBEDO
Hojarasca Dance leaves Burgos and it is transferred to Valladolid becoming resident company in Serrada's Theatre, Valladolid.
MAY 2006
HOJARASCA
DANCE BEGINS IN VALLADOLID THEIR NEW PRODUCTION DESIRE,
CO-PRODUCED with FUNDACION SIGLO PARA LAS ARTES
DE CASTILLA Y LEON.
Alicia Soto, director of the Company, counts on
the inestimable collaboration of Michel Houellebecq - texts, Masbedo
- Video creation-, Joan Valent - music,
Amaya Arzuaga - clothes, Eduardo Cuadrado, Carlos Fernández - Dramatic
art, MEG - production, D&CAE - Stage scene, the City councils of Serrada
y Laguna de Duero, etc…
HOJARASCA INVITED TO THE“VII STREET THEATRE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IN MESITAS DEL COLEGIO”
There they played “BULIDING C, FALLEN ANGELS SEARCH HOW TO GO UP TO HEAVEN” in a tour that took place between the 13th and the 22nd of October, where they acted in different cities and villages of the country.
The 13th of October they played the show in Bogotá, where they gave a press conference at a international level.
The 14th, a special show to the University of Bogotá.
The 15th and the 16th they will be in “Mesitas del Colegio (Cundinamarca)”
The 17th in Bogotá a performance in the “National Meeting of the Community Theatre”.
The 18th “Ciudad de Tunja”
The 19th Bucamaranga
The 20th Pamplona
The 21st and the 22nd Montería
HOJARASCA
TRAVEL TO “CAIRO (EGYPT), TO REPRESENT SPAIN IN THE “INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF EXPREIMENTAL THEATRE OF CAIRO”
Alicia Soto Solas and her company HOJARASCA
DANZA, was invited by the Egyptian Culture Ministry to take part with
its last play “The woman without memory” based in the life
and work of the writer María Teresa de León.
This travel was made between the 20th and the 30th of September of 2005.
Therefore the 21st Alicia Soto Solas manager, choreographer and dancer
of the company, was invited as a representative of our country in the
“Work Journey of the Festival” where she gave a conference
about “The Dramaturgy in the dance and the Contemporary Dance in
Spain”.
Keeping on with her work as a pedagogue, she was also invited by Cairo
University to give class to the pupils of Scenic Arts, the 22nd of September
she gave class about Contemporary Dance called “The movement, another
way of expression”.
The 24th and the 25th, she played “The woman without memory”,
with a great success between the public and the critic.
In the festival there were 150 companies were invited from all the world.
HOJARASCA HAS REPRESENTED SPAIN IN THE FESTIVAL OF YOKOHAMA IN JAPAN
Alicia Soto Solas, representing Hojarasca Dance, was invited and participated
as a reporter in the International Festival of Dance of Japan-YOKOHAMA
DANCE COLLECTION R
Between
the 22nd and the 30th of January of 2005. Alicia Soto Solas as a representative
of Spain, has gave a conference the 28th of January, where they talk
about the situation of the dance in different countries and continents
that has participated.
2004
THE
COMPANY HOJARASCA DANZA HAS BEEN NAMED FOR THE MAX AWARDS
Hojarasca nominada con su espectáculo “Bloque C, Ángeles
Caídos buscan subir al Cielo”, un espectáculo de calle
para todos los públicos, estrenado en el Festival Internacional
de Viladecans (Barcelona), 2002.
Hojarasca named with it show “Building C, Fallen
angels search how to go up to heaven”, a street show open to all
the publics, which première took place in the International Festival
of Viladecans (Barcelona).
“Building C angels search how to go up to heaven”: With a
uniform they arrive to the Earth, it is the daily and hard work, they
are people that will build a scaffold, a building. Every day they will
build a lost illusion, their feathers; waiting the air blowing strongly,
to put up their wings and go up to heaven. But they are jailed between
their world and the reality. Will they reach it? Only in an oneiric world,
an angel will reach heaven , between the illusion and believing in dreams…
THE COMPANY HOJARASCA DANZA HAS BEEN NAMED FOR THE MAX AWARDS
Hojarasca named by “Between arms”, a show for young people and adults, which première was in Burgos in 2001.
Between arms: it tells the story of three women with different ages that work in a luxury and comfortable place with masculine clients, a place for meetings, for truth and lies, a world of false appearances, a world of false appearances where the money is changed for counters and it is forbidden a contact that could be too dangerous…
2002
BETWEEN ARMS WAS FINALIST IN THE 5TH AWARDS OF SCEBE MANAGERS OF TORREJÓN DE ARDOZ, MADRID