BAALCONING IS A TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA PRODUCTION
ARTISTIC TEAM
Director, author and choreography ∙ CATALINA CARRASCO
Soundtrack and soundscape ∙ KIKO BARRENENGOA, JUANMI BOSCH, GINÉS FERNÁNDEZ
Original idea and assistant ∙ GASPAR MOREY
Performers ∙ YEINNER CHICAS, ELENA SUSILLA, KIKO LÓPEZ, MARIONA JAUME, CATALINA CARRASCO I GASPAR MOREY
Playwright and External view ∙ JORDI DURAN
Choreographic assistant ∙ ELENA SUSILLA
Scenery ∙ ANA GARAY, ISI PONCE
Costumes ∙ GUILLEM SUAU
Lighting ∙ MIQUEL LLULL, ROGER OLLER
Video ∙ ANDRÉ CRUZ
Regidorship and management assistant ∙ IRENE SALORD
Duration: 60 min.
Premiere
Teatre Principal de Palma 18 de junio 2021
Artistic residencies
Eima, Auditori de Palmanova, C.IN.E Sineu, Teatre Principal de Palma
Description
- Baal is a Canaanite God or Christian Daemon after whom the Balearic Islands are named.
- Balconing is a sadly known phenomenon featured mainly by young, drunk, tourists.
- Baal is Bertolt Brecht’s opera prima, written in 1918 when he was only 20 years old.
All these ingredients are mixed to become an energetic and vibrant show. A process to understand why the young tourists from Magaluf, same as Brecht’s Baal, enter a path of excess, friendship, sex, violence and love in a quest for the sensation of liberty, defying all that’s morally acceptable and rebelling against society.
Review
By FERNANDO MERINO
https://fernandomerinoblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/los-pequenos-hallazgos-coreograficos-de-baalconing-el-azar-de-danza-teatro/“… the reflection proposed to us is devastating from the moment that it is not offering an interpretation, but simple recreations of the self-destructive ritual characteristic for a principle-less youth,… ”
“… the truly outstanding is how the movements develop, one following the other in their own light. That’s where key to this show’s quality lies: bionic dancers interrelate creating woven figures and acrobatic soli of a singular beauty. “
