UNANochedeBaile

The theme of the piece is the relationship between dance and different discourses about the body.
An exploration of the relationship between contemporary, social and folk dance.
Who dances in cities? What styles do they dance? In which places and contexts do they dance?
Many types of celebration occur in a city and dancing is at the heart of each one.
UNANochedeBaile poses new relationships that, far from erasing the established imprints of styles, mixtures and traditions, creates new possibilities of coexistence.

Dancers: UNA Dance Company
Lighting Design: Julio López
Costumes: Natalia Krieger
Music Edition: Carlos Vandera
Hip Hop dance coach: Gabriela Pardo
Choreographic assistant: Eugenia Cordera
Direction Assistant: Verónica Litvak
Direction: Gerardo Litvak

IX Contemporary Dance Festival Buenos Aires, 2016
Argentine National Center of Music and Dance, 2016
Teatro York, Olivos, Buenos Aires, 2017
Gran Rex Theater, The Night of Dance, Buenos Aires, 2017
Dance Festival of the CCRojas, University of Buenos Aires, 2017
Teatro de la Ribera, Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, 2018
Centro Cultural Plaza, San Martín, Province of Buenos Aires, 2018

This piece has received a subsidy from the Prodanza Institute, Ministry of Culture, Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

 

 

Barroca

The challenge of the piece is to modify an architectural space unfolding the subjective language of dance, through the use of baroque music and its attention to detail.
It gives a perspective on architecture that is able to reveal the poetry that lies in what is close, immediate to us, what we forget to notice when our horizons have become known and routine.
A temporary script engraved on a body of virtual images, constructing fragmented time in a mutating space.

Choreography and Direction: Gabriela Prado & Gerardo Litvak
Dancer: Gabriela Prado
Visiting Dancers: Soledad Gutiérrez, Silvina Linzuain, Luciana De Michelis
Audiovisual Editor: Carlos Vandera
Costumes: Julieta Harca, Eliana Kuriss Dick

Commissioned piece by Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, National Ministry of Culture, 2015.

 

Criollo

Criollo suggests reflection on the random way in which the notion of homeland is etched on bodies. Questions around what is homeland, how does homeland become flesh and where in the body does it live have been the premise for the piece research.
Urban, rural and folk elements and electronic music all interweave together.  Also present are the rivalry of malambo, the skill of cumbia and the rave feeling of pericón. Through this juxtaposition, pastiche or interrelation of heterogeneous elements, Criollo shifts the meaning of the national tradition’s diverse rhythms’ towards the invention of an autonomous dance, with its own language and idiosyncratic rules, reinventing in this way the question about a national dance.

Dancers: Víctor Campillay, Luís Monroy, Mauro Cacciatore, Esteban Esquivel
Costumes: Ana Manouelian
Lighting Design: Alejandro Le Roux
Music: Pablo Bronzini
Choreographic assistants: Víctor Campillay, Luís Monroy
Direction assistant: Victoria Molins
Press: Simkin & Franco
Direction and choreography: Gerardo Litvak

Teatro Portón de Sánchez, Buenos Aires, 2010

This production has received the Guggenheim Fellowship (EEUU), The Iberescena Grant (Spain),
the National Fund of the Arts Grant, and a subsidy by Prodanza Institut, Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires, (Argentina).

This piece  has been distinguished with the declaration of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, Argentina.

 

Bella Noche

Bella Noche unfolds a metaphor about dance as social ritual and was conceived and shaped by those costumes and ceremonies that inform our idiosyncrasies.
How we move and the different types of body movement have been some of the questions that have guided the creative process, and have explored the meeting point between popular and contemporary dance.

Dancers and creative collaboration: Ballet Contemporáneo de Tucumán
Music: Pink Martini, Los Lobos, Henry Creamer
Lighting Design: Gerardo Litvak, Patricia Sabbag
Director: Gerardo Litvak

Commissioned piece by the Contemporary Ballet of Tucumán,
San Martín Theatre, San Miguel de Tucumán, 2010
VI Argentino de Danza Festival, Santa Fé, 2010
Celebrations of the Argentina´s Bicentennial, Av.9 de julio, Buenos Aires, 2010

 

Planetario

A system is an organized and complex whole; a combination of parts and objects united by some form of interaction. The limits or boundaries between the system and its environment allows, however, for a certain scope of arbitrariness. It is there, between the order of the parts and the chaos of its arrangement, where the poetics of this work is born.

Dancers: Nahuel Alegre, Natacha Berezan, Ana Galassi, Julieta García Gagliardi, Rosina Gungolo,
Jesica Josiowicz, Inés Maas, Mailen Madsen, María José Monje Rivadeneira,
Nora Moreno Macías, Janet Parra Onego, Gisela Pellegrini, Luis Sodá
Music: Alva Noto
Lighting Design: David Seiras
Direction and choreography: Gerardo Litvak

Commissioned piece by the Puentes3 Program, Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires, 2010.

 

Barroco I

One dancer and two musicians in the old library space of the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Centre and the power of a baroque gesture going through them.  A dialogue between sound, kinetic and architectural forms.

Dancer: Gabriela Prado
Music: Georg Philipp Telemann
Musicians: Eugenia Montalto, Hector Rodriguez
Costumes: Eli Kurtis Dick, Julieta Harca
Choreography and Direction: Gerardo Litvak & Gabriela Prado

Commissioned piece by Barroco Dance Program, Ricardo Rojas Cultural Centre, University of Buenos Aires, 2008

 

Casa

Virtual image and dance are the basis for the stage experience that this piece poses. The use of this combination allows us to return to a fragile and changing architectural object, working through the perception of dimensions and angles.
Architecture, visual script and movement together generate the relations that create a stage device prose, where body and space unfold, exchange, merge and mirror as elements in one landscape.

Performer: Gabriela Prado
Music: Martín Ferres
Video: Julia Fisicaro
Costumes: Pilar Beamonte
Production assistant: Alexis Losada
Photography: José Carracedo
Lighting Design: Eli Silrlin
Direction: Gerardo Litvak & Gabriela Prado

Camarin Theatre, Buenos Aires, 2007.
Coproduction by Arte & Lenguaje Foundation.
Subsidies from the Prodanza Institute and the Metropolitan Culture Fund for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Buenos Aires.
Nominated for the Teatros del Mundo Awards, CCRojas, University of Buenos Aires.
Mention at Mc Station Digital Paradigm Award.

 

Un Monstruo y La Chúcara

The play is about the journey of a man in his attempts to stand and that of a woman who is standing, but doesn’t know how to walk.
Each one of them is submitted to a ritual of automatic gestures, wandering in an attempt to build an identity. Attempts that do not reach an aim, but fade, break and merge into others.
Memory pieces, residues of a rambling speech, inform its universe.
Like in a jigsaw puzzle, they try to reconcile their movements with time and space; moving among fractured memories, without names or periods, memories made of shapeless material. It is in that endeavour, that these two beings meet, in an unexpected pas de deux.

Performers: Gabriela Prado, Pablo Rotemberg
Music: Martín Ferres
Lighting Design: Gonzalo Córdova
Photos: José Carracedo
Choreography: Gabriela Prado, Pablo Rotemberg, Gerardo Litvak
Direction: Gerardo Litvak

Commissioned piece for the Contemporánea x 6 Program at Pte. Alvear Theater, Complejo Teatral of Buenos Aires, 2005
San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2015

 

Myopia

In Myopía, time was constructed as an unstable shifting zone, like a ramp and not steps, like an ongoing present. At the same time there is a continuous transformation of space, worked as if it were a kaleidoscope. A recurring abstract language is also utilised in search of a hypnotic performance to erase the perception of time and to achieve an ecstatic experience.

Direction and choreography: Gerardo Litvak
Music: Moby
Music Edition: Martín Ferres
Costumes: Natalia Arrascaeta
Lighting Design: Julio López
Dancers: UNA Dance Company

Commissioned piece by the UNA Dance Company, National University of the Arts.
Gral. San Martín Cultural Center, 2004
III Contemporary Dance Festival of Buenos Aires, 2004
I Argentine Dance Festival, Santa Fe, 2005
Cultural Center of the Cooperation, Buenos Aires, 2006
IV Buenos Aires Dance Festival, 2007

 

 

      

Instantáneas

Dancers: Gabriela Gobbi, Lucía Lacabana, Noelia Leonzio, Juan Manuel Quesada, Paula Rodríguez, Rosnery Roque, María Paula Rossignoli, Cristian Setien, Sofía Cerdán, Camilo Pulmari
Music: Gabriel Paiuk
Lighting Design: Carlos Bechara
Costumes: Silvana Lacarra
Choreography: Gerardo Litvak

Commissioned piece for the Experimental Centre, Colón Theatre, Buenos Aires, 2003

 

 

El Resto

Characters expelled into an abyss, wandering in an attempt to build an identity. Attempts that do not reach their aim. They fade, break and merge into others.
Memory pieces, residues of a rambling speech, inform its universe.
Like in a jigsaw puzzle, they try to reconcile their movements with time and space; moving among fractured memories, without names or timeframes, memories made of shapeless material.

Performers: Tania Dick, Mariana Estevez, Edgardo Mercado
Music: Alejandro Novoa
Lighting Design: Gonzalo Córdova
Photos: Angel Castro
Direction and choreography: Gerardo Litvak

Ana Itelman Theatre, 2000
A coproduction with Teatro Municipal General San Martín.

 

 

The Rest

Characters expelled into an abyss, wandering in an attempt to build an identity. Attempts that do not reach their aim. They fade, break and merge into others.
Memory pieces, residues of a rambling speech, inform its universe.
Like in a jigsaw puzzle, they try to reconcile their movements with time and space; moving among fractured memories, without names or timeframes, memories made of shapeless material.

Dancers: Michael Getman, Shane Hedges, Thomas Michael Lehnhart
Music: Alejandro Gonzales Novoa
Lighting Design: Hanz Geeratz
Choreography: Gerardo Litvak

Commissioned piece by Ballet Freiburg/Pretty Ugly Company.
Freiburger Theater, Germany, 1999
Kunststiftug Erich Hauser Festival, Germany, 2000

 

La Trifulca

Choreographers and dancers: Valeria Kovadloff & Gerardo Litvak
Music: Edgardo Rudnisky
Costumes: Liliana Piekar

I Dance Festival, Rosario, Argentina, 1993
Biennial of Young Art, Buenos Aires, 1993
Buenos Aires Youth Festival, Buenos Aires, 1994
Danza Libre Festival, Corrientes, 1995
7th International Theatre Festival of La Havana, Cuba, 1995

This piece received the second prize in the Young Art Biennial of Buenos Aires, 1993