AIRE

"Buenas hierbas" speaks about all those plants that appear in the city, on its streets and sidewalks, on facades and in abandoned houses, reminding us that the city was once countryside, and that we are the intruders, not them.

With his approachable and didactic style, Eduardo Barba tells us the most beautiful stories of urban flora (plants that do the impossible to help their offspring grow in more fertile ground than their mother, roots that associate with certain microorganisms to overcome the toxicity of the environment...), and the Antonio Ruz Company transforms his words into dance and movement, paying tribute to the plasticity of nature’s forms. If sometimes the most surprising nature grows in a crack at the foot of a streetlamp, on occasions like this, perhaps dance tells stories and draws concepts as elaborate as the most refined of essays or narratives.

Credits

Artistic Direction: Flora Festival
Text and Reading: Eduardo Barba
Stage Direction, Choreography, and Set Design: Compañía Antonio Ruz
Dance and Choreographic Collaboration: Lucía Montes, Mado Dallery, and Alicia Narejos
Lighting Design: Olga García
Sound Space: Aire
Lighting Technician: Cristina Cejas