La Veronal: Sonoma

Marcos Morau's pieces present surreal images of alien beauty, symbolic worlds of movement, art, architecture, text and music. His latest work is inspired by the processions of his native Spain and transposes them to a kind of film studio, where a fantastical microcosm of Buñuel and ecclesiastical rites, faceless figures and beatifications emerges. Debussy and Wagner quietly resonate, grotesque old women become innocent girls carrying in the moon, and the deep black of funeral processions transforms into the brilliant light of blank canvases. Women glide across the stage like clockwork dolls, an all-female collective finds its way out of tradition into modernity, freeing itself from the shackles of conformism with loud drumbeats and screams. The word “Sonoma” is not found in any dictionary; it is composed of the Greek word soma (body) and the Latin sonum (sound) – La Veronal presents sounding bodies vibrating with energy.

„Morau is one of the very few directors able to take us on a trip to a surreal universe full of theatricality, visionary originality, and fantastic frescoes that evoke cinematographic, literary, and pictorial climaxes.“ – www.artribune.com, Italien  

„Spectacular.“ – Frankfurter Rundschau

Choreography: Marcos Morau in collaboration with the dancers | Duration: approx. 75 minutes with no intermission

Idea & artistic direction: Marcos Morau
Choreography: Marcos Morau in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Lorena Nogal, Marina Rodríguez, Sau-Ching Wong, Ariadna Montfort, Núria Navarra, Àngela Boix, Laia Duran, Anna Hierro, Alba BarralText El Conde de Torrefiel, La Tristura and Carmina S. Belda
Répétiteurs: Estela Merlos &Alba Barral
Artistic & dramaturgical advice: Roberto Fratini
Vocal assistant: Mònica Almirall
Technical direction &Lighting design: Bernat Jansà
Stage manager, props & special effects: David Pascual
Sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra
Voice: María Pardo
Set design: Bernat Jansà & David Pascual
Costumes design: Silvia Delagneau
Dressmaking: Mª Carmen Soriano
Millinery: Nina Pawlowsky
Masks: Juan Serrano – Gadget Efectos Especiales
Giant maker: Martí Doy
Props: Mirko Zeni
Production & logistics: Cristina Goñi Adot
Production direction: Juan Manuel Gil Galindo

Co-production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Tanz im August/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona –Institut de Cultura Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Theater Freiburg, Centro de Cultura Conde Duque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta, Hessisches Staatsballett in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main

In collaboration with Graner –Fàbriques de Creació and Teatre L’ArtesàBeneficiary project of the PYRENART cross-border cooperation project, within the framework of the Interreg VA program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA 2014-2020 -European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

With the support of INAEM –Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte de España and ICEC –Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya