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The title of this show – ‘The forgiveness‘- not misleading. Its backbone is forgiveness. Its creator is the dancer and choreographer Chevi Muraday, who has made the actress dance Juana acosta -formed in dance and classical ballet in her native Colombia- in this work that has just landed in the fine arts theater, where it will be until next January 23. It has texts from the omnipresent Juan Carlos Rubio -These days he also premieres ‘Desmoniendo a Seneca’, with Jorge Javier Vazquez, and his text ‘En tierra Extra’ has just been released in Madrid. Muraday himself shares stage direction with David Picazo, and the original music is
from Mariano Marin.
The show has a very important emotional and healing component, since behind that forgiveness there is a traumatic event: the murder of the actress’s father when she was 16 years old. She learned regarding the crime when she was leaving a dance class and, as she has said, the dance turned into trauma. “It is as if the violence had castrated the dance,” said the actress. «What remains in the face of the violent death of a father who has taught his 16-year-old daughter to love life, art and humanity? -explains Juana Acosta-. In full transition to adulthood, my father was murdered. Violence imposed its law, stealing my joy, the will to live, to feel, to dance. This is the testimonial starting point of this show where unanswered questions, the search for meaning and the need to let go of pain are a vehicle to recognize our shared humanity in all its light and shadow ».
“To apologize,” continues Chevi Muraday. be aware that significant harm has been done to the other. Putting yourself in their shoes and getting closer to their feelings can actually make the other person feel pain. From this reflection we enter a space of investigation, through our own vital experiences and using the body and the word as a vehicle, we will open the channel of reconciliation.
Juan Carlos Rubio reflects: «A wise man said that resentment is a poison that we take to kill another, an absurd and unquestionable paradox. Quite the opposite is forgiveness, that difficult but absolutely necessary act. Throughout my life I have made the decision to forgive many timesAs on other occasions, I have not been able to shake off the bonds of resentment. This show, the playwright continues, has led him to rethink his own limits. «How far can forgiveness go? Is it an irrevocable decision or does it require a continuous examination of conscience? Do we forgive with our mind or with our heart? Is justice the opposite of forgiveness, since, as Seneca claimed, forgiveness is the remission of the punishment due and therefore we should not speak of it but of clemency? Our work with this exciting show may not be to answer these questions, but without a doubt the challenge is to find a way to formulate them with the body and the word, the light and the shadow, the music and the silence, the emotion and reason and pierce the conscience of the spectators.
With ‘El perdón’, Juana Acosta intends to explore «the depths and recesses of our soul, reflecting in the body and the voice a search of years; the brave act of putting oneself in the shoes of the other to try to understand what has no name, the darkness of certain questions and the freedom found by those who choose to love instead of hate. And forgive ».
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