PERSONAL NOTE
Is forgiveness a legitimate tool to achieve reconciliation in a context were both sides are victims and victimizers? That`s the question El Carnaval Del Diablo asks to its audience.
The artistic approach is constantly referencing Colombian tragedies by using objects that are embedded in the cultural memory and are symbols for the conflict. Also, the use of coca leafs and banana palms (also metaphors for the conflict) helps to create some kind of natural walls that are used as hiding places for the dancers. The contradiction that wants to be stated is that our natural wealthiness and beauty is simultaneously our doom. In the same way, carnivals and national holidays in Colombia have always had that meaning of either hiding or relieving the pain caused by the conflict.
DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY: TINO FERNÁNDEZ
SCRITP: JULIANA REYES
ORIGINAL MUSIC: CAMILO GIRALDO
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN: LAURA VILLEGAS
LIGHTING DESIGN: HUMBERTO HENRÁNDEZ
SET DESIGN ASSISTANT: SANTIAGO FERREIRA
COSTUME DESIGN ASSISTANT: MARIANA SHCRADER, SANTIAGO FERREIRA
COSTUME TAYLOR: SERVANDO DIAZ
SET CONSTRUCTION: H&G STUDIOS
CAST: LUISA FERNANDA HOYOS, ÁNGEL ÁVILA, YOVANNY MARTINEZ. WILLIAM ROMERO, RENÉ ARRIAGA, JAIRO ANTONIO RIASCOS