VACONBACON. Cantar las fuerzas (English)

VACONBACONcantar las fuerzas

Vaconbacon is an interactive, scenic and sonourus project of flamenco singing

(cante) based on Francis Bacon´s paintings.

Flamenco singer “Niño de Elche” and the company “Bulos y Tanguerías” (Santiago Barber and

Raul Cantizano) show that the body and the sounds of a singer can play themselves the leading

role on the stage. A few objects and a screen are the other elements of this work that brings us

closer to the painter’s work without using any of his paintings.

The singer goes beyond the way of singing that he already knowns, and he ventures into unexplored

areas where he can test his limits and his powers. His own image is projected, creating Baconian

paintings that he modifies himself. Painter's favourite poets as T.S. Elliot are brought to the flamenco

universe together with Miguel Hernández or Machado, and there the singer, with his extraordinary

but not often demonstrated capacities, creates a new universe full of emotions that expand our

vision of the world.

Premiered at

LÉscorxador CCC, Center of Contemporary Culture.

Elche (Alicante, Spain)

June 10th 2011

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Artistic index

singer Niño de Elche

artistic and scenic direction Santiago Barber and Raúl Cantizano

music direction Santiago Barber, Raúl Cantizano and Niño de Elche

sonorous space Raúl Cantizano

scenic space Santiago Barber

technological device Macarena Madero and Juan Antonio Ruz

visual Santiago Barber, Macarena Madero and Xavier Romaní

audio-visual Daniel Lagares

design of lighting Benito Jiménez

sound engineer Benito Jiménez

graph ambulanciagráfica

video recording and shoots photographs Félix Vazquez

production bulosytanguerias.net, Niño de Elche and Vecinas Management

distribution Vecinas Management

coproduction LÉscorxador CCC

gratefulnesses Félix Vazquez, Amapola López, María Velasco, Cooperativa

Tramallol and Lobo López

Crew on tour Niño de Elche, Santiago Barber, Raúl Cantizano, Macarena

Madero, Benito Jiménez y Road Manager


concept

Vaconbacon. To sing the forces is an interactive, scenic and sonourus proposal of “cante

flamenco” based on Francis Bacon´s painting. Taking the impulse that motivated Bacon to create

his painting, vaconbacon postulates a flamenco singer’s determination to be heard, testing his

luck with other rules.

And also other strokes. Because our Bacon will not use paintbrush but pixel, it will extract images

and manipulate visuals. Manners of seeing and touching Bacon. Figures that are distorted by the

sweeps they suffer, sonorous figures -that also are songs and airs- are this way lightly stirred.

And the body. For Bacon the “revealing” object of this distortion is always the human body -for

him nothing more than bones and flesh-, but he neglects that the body is also a pipe, a pipe packed

with secret sounders, sphincters, emptinesses, muscles and snorts. This is the reason why the

body’s action on singing turns into an exploring singing loaded with an immediacy and lungness

that tenses its principles. The “shout” shall not become harmonious, it shall be related to the forces

that provoke it.

And the sensation. To disclose other areas of sensation. We start with the pictorial idea of the

embrace of two sensations and the resonances that these sensations extract from it, and we

understand the resonance places as places of fight. A world opens there for us, and to this world

we bend: Which are these places in singing? What representations emerge from there? What

courses could a “blurred and trigged singing” take?


structure

The structure is based on the laws of triptychs according to Bacon's painting. The proposal is

divided into three sections which correspond to the same number of locations on stage.

This triptych will be composed by these basic sequences organized in a circular -better than linear-

way. It should be mandatory to establish a relationship between the separated parts but it should

not be narrative or logical. It implies no progression or storytelling.

“Niño de Elche” will perform different flamenco styles (palos) as tonás, seguiriyas, fandangos de

Marchena, soleá, malagueña, as well as the exceptional flamenco piece titled cantologuía, which

makes us travel a number of different palos as farruca, alegrias, tientos, tangos, bulerias, garrotin,

peteneras, soleares, seguiriyas, debla and more.

First partThe face of flamenco singing has not found his face

Tres tonás para el rostro

En boca cerrada no entran moscas

Poner el grito en el cielo

Francisco de así

Second partTo sing the forces

Homenaje físico a Marchena

Palíndromo bailado y fandangos de la comba

Respiración de ir y venir

Soleá a su ritmo

Third partBetween the still -early and the too-late

Preguntas más frecuentes

Frituras más frecuentes

Cantologuía


running time 1h with no intervals

In the last years he has presented his offers in diverse spaces and festivals as:

- Big sur. Nuevo Arte español, National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin)

- MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)

- Nits dáielo i art en su 6ª,8ª y 10ª edición (Aielo de Malferit, Valencia)

- LEM, International Experimental Music Festival en su 7ª y 10ª edición (Barcelona)

- La Alameda Flamenca Hoy, 3 ensayos de arte jondo del entorno alamedero, Teatro Alameda

(Sevilla)

- CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla)

- Escena Contemporánea, VII Festival Alternativo de las Artes Escénicas, Circulo de Bellas Artes

(Madrid)

- Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de calle de Valladolid en su 9ª y 10ª edición

- Arrt dÁcció, OCCC, Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporánia (Valencia)

- Flamenc Empiric, Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona)

- El flamenco que viene, Teatro Alameda (Sevilla)

- Lo que dura un cante, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona

- Microbios, esos seres diminutos, Zemos98 (Sevilla)

- Festival Anem Anem. La festa de léscolta, Gandía (Valencia)

- Teatro del Centro Cultural Narciso González, actividades del Centro Cultural de España, Santo

Domingo (República Dominicana)

- Teatro Eugene OŃeill, actividades del Centro Cultural de España, San José (Costa Rica)

- LÉscorxador CCC, Elche (Alicante). Estreno de Vaconbacon. Cantar las fuerzas.

Biographies

Compañía Bulos y Tanguerías

(www.bulosytanguerias.net)


Francisco Contreras “Niño de Elche” (Elche, 1985)

Flamenco singer. Lives and works in Seville

At the age of 8 he began to play Flamenco guitar and by the age of 10 he was winning his first

prizes in the world of music.

In 2002, he won First Prize in the Concurso Nacional de tarantos y tarantas de Almería together

with a scholarship to the Fundación Cristina Heeren in Seville, where he would go on to receive

classes from such masters as Calixto Sánchez, “José el de la Tomasa”, Manuel Soler or Manolo

Franco.

He managed to win nearly 30 national prizes from which stands out the Special Prize for Young

Flamenco Singers in the Concurso Internacional del Cante de las Minas en la Unión, Murcia

(2005).

He has worked at the most important tablaos of Spain such as La Toná (Murcia), Zambra (Alicante),

El Cordobés (Barcelona), Auditorio Álvarez Quintero (Sevilla), Los Gallos (Sevilla) and Museo

flamenco de Cristina Hoyos (Sevilla).

In his artistic career he has travelled the world, giving recitals and courses in Austria, Poland,

Slovakia, France, Italy, Jordan, Portugal, Canada, England, Germany, Indonesia, Colombia, Costa

Rica, Dominican Republic, etc …

During 2006 he took part as an invited artist in the Flamenco de autor show by

flamenco singer Manuel Gerena.

In the year 2007 he released his first album, Mis primeros llantos, recorded on the Sevillana

DIENC label with the production of Domi Serralbo and the collaboration of musicians of the stature

of Manolo Franco, Juan Ramón Caro, José Antonio Rodríguez, Daniel Méndez, Manolo Nieto,

Jesús Lavilla, “Cepillo”, David Palomar, etc..

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In 2008 he presented the Lamentos del alma show based on Miguel Hernández's poems and

sharing the stage with the actor Ramón Langa, La Orquesta Barroca Valenciana, Juan Ramón

Caro, Jorge Pérez and Manuel Ramos. In November, 2009, he collaborated with the poet Marcos

Ana, in the reopening premiere of the theatrical work Sino sangriento, in tribute to Miguel Hernández,

in the Auditorio Nuria Espert, Fuenlabrada. In 2010 he presented his Sí, a Miguel Hernández

show on the life and work of the poet, in commemoration of the year of the centenary of his birth,

based on the script of the writer, poet and biographer of Miguel Hernández, Jose Luis Ferris, and

accompanied by the voice of Jose Luis Ortiz Nuevo.

He formed part of the company Bulos y Tanguerías in the “Gran espectáculo de variedades

flamencas” show throughout 2009 and 2010 in places such as the Mercat de les flors in Barcelona

in the Flamenc Empíric cycle, Teatro Alameda de Sevilla as part of the El flamenco que viene

cycle and in the tour of Central America organized by the Cultural Centers of Spain in Dominican

Republic, Costa Rica and Guatemala.

In September, 2010, he premiered, with the Compañía Murciana de Danza, the theatrical work

Romeo and Juliet in the Auditorio de Bullas (Murcia) and in Auditorio de Albatera (Murcia). In

October of the same year he was the guest artist in the Fiesta Flamenca performed for two days

in the Institute of the Arabic World of Paris (France)

Raúl Cantizano (Sevilla, 1973)

Flamenco guitarist

A Fine Arts graduate from the University of Seville specializing in sculpture, after several years of

study and research in the musical area called “experimental”, he came to Flamenco as a scholarship

holder from the Cristina Heeren Foundation of Flamenco Art in the year 2000. Since then he has

been a habitual guitarist in the Sevillian tablaos, performing in numerous festivals and Peñas

Flamencas of heritage and prestige all over Andalusia and has acted in theatres and international

festivals in countries as diverse as the USA, Turkey, Holland, Belgium, France, England, Mexico,

Palestine, Japan and Portugal.

He formed the band “Medialuna Flamenca” assembling in the same stage andalusí music and

Flamenco. He wrote and directed the Flamenco show “Sal Sobrino” and composed the music

for the circus, dance and flamenco show “Malgama” by the Varuma Teatro company, which won

a Giraldillo Innovación, in the XIV Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla. He also created the music for

other Flamenco shows like “Femenino Plural” by the Compañía Flamenca Angeles Gabaldón

premiered in the Festival Flamenco de Jerez 2007, or “Restauración” by the company Punto de

Fuga Danza, that opened in the Encuentros Flamencos de Granada, 2006. In 2007 he began to

take part in the Flamenco-Moroccan musical project of the Orchestra Chekara de Tetuan, “Orquesta

Chekara Flamenca”.

In 2008, he was both director and musical composer of “Tejidos Al Tiempo” by Choni Cía

Flamenca, which was an award winner with the Giraldillo Revelación prize in the XV Bienal de

Flamenco de Sevilla. As well as the “Del Quivir” show by the Angeles Gabaldón Company premiered

in the Festival Flamenco de Jerez 2009, he also composed the music for "Timetable" by Marco

Vargas y Chloé Brûlé, Giraldillo innovación in the same edition of the Biennial show.

Later in 2010 he took charge of the musical direction of “Alejandrias, la Mirada oblicua” of

8co80 producciones together with the choreographer Juan Carlos Lérida. And “La Gloria de mi

mare” by Choni Cía. Flamenca. Both opened in the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla

He forms part of the “Entenguerengue” Improvisers' Andalusian orchestra.


Santiago Barber (Valencia, 1970)

Artist, performer and cultural producer. Lives and works in Seville

After graduating in Fine Arts from the Technical University of Valencia, he was been working since

the early 90s within an art form based on social aspects, sound, performance and flamenco, all

mixed together with an interest that touches all these fields and understands culture as cooperation,

as a way of doing things which allows him to act impulsively and transmit transformational energies.

He has organized and produced - always in collaboration with many others - cultural activities of

a diverse nature, all of them related to the diffusion and exhibition of critical and experimental

artistic practice. He has taken part in meetings, giving conferences and talks in numerous cities

in Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, The United States, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

Likewise he has produced workshops and courses in Universitat de València, Centro Andaluz

del Teatro (CAT), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), California Institute

of the Arts (CALARTS, Los Angeles), Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), University of

Fine Arts (San Diego), Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA arteypensamiento), ETSA

(Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla), etc.

Recognizing this vital distance beyond - or above – stagnant disciplines, he has carried out

workshops, graphic and gesture research, taking Flamenco as a rich and deep field of action. In

turn he has done stage work for the Souvenir and La voz de su amo shows by the Compañía

Belén Maya and for El cielo de tu boca by dancer Andrés Marín, where, in addition, he shared

artistic direction with the choreographer Salud Lopez and Andrés Marín himself. Premiered in the

XV Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla,he has also performed in the II Bienal de Flamenco de los

Países Bajos, (Muziekgebouw); Festival ¡Mira! Théâtre Olympia. Arcachon (Francia); Festival

¡Mira!, Théâtre National de Bordeaux. Aquitaine (Francia); Flamenco Viene del Sur, Teatro Cánovas

de Málaga; Flamenco Viene del Sur, Teatro Alhambra de Granada; Festival Montpellier Danse,

Opéra Comédie. Montpellier (Francia); Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.


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