Analphabet. Alberto Cortés

Alberto Cortés presents, at the Sala Verde of the Teatros del Canal and as part of the Festival de Otoño, a dance and performance piece on the wounds of love and violence in romantic relationships, built around the ghost Analphabet.

The stage director and performer Alberto Cortés, born in Málaga, places this piece in the territory of emotional relationships. The story begins with a couple wounded by love who, on the beach at Gulpiyuri, see a ghost called Analphabet appear above the sea. This character tells them stories, sings them songs and observes from the outside the contradictions of the pair.

Starting from this figure, the production examines the violence that can arise within romantic bonds and the forms of abuse that appear in the structure of the couple, which the creator compares to a ravine. Analphabet works as a contemporary myth that opens a reflection on intragender violence, and its presence also leaves a possibility of hope: the capacity of poetry to intervene on a wound.

Cortés has built a career marked by poetry, provocation and the limits of the stage, with works such as El Ardor and One Night at the Golden Bar, gathered in the book Los montes son tuyos, and later publications such as Siempre vengo de noche and Libro de devociones. His pieces have toured international festivals such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the Festival d'Automne à Paris and the Milan Triennale.