moNo nO aWare

As part of the Canal Baila cycle, choreographers Begoña Quiñones and Verónica Garzón premiere a contemporary dance show on 29 and 30 October in the Sala Negra of Teatros del Canal, exploring the fragility of the structures that support human beings and the capacity to find new forms of balance when they crumble.

The work starts from an essential question: what happens when the structures that sustain us give way to the inertia of the inevitable? From this premise, the production approaches dissolution as a biological process of reorganisation and transformation.

The title plays on a double reading. On the one hand, it refers to the Japanese concept mono no aware, which alludes to the beauty of the ephemeral and the emotion awakened by that which is destined to disappear. On the other, it offers a warning about a species unable to recognise the deterioration of its own foundations, setting up a dialogue between consciousness and instinct.

On stage, four performers (Begoña Quiñones, Verónica Garzón, José Alarcón and David Vilariño) try to preserve human dignity while an instinctive nature emerges that accepts its own extinction. The stage journey moves between flashes of light and semi-darkness, accompanied by a constantly changing set and a soundscape that seems to breathe to the rhythm of matter.

The piece thus offers a reflection on change, showing how that which seemed solid abandons resistance to become a new habitable architecture. The work invites the spectator to be moved by the end of things and to discover the possibility of a new beginning.

On 29 October, a meeting with the audience has been arranged at the end of the performance.