dancers in black sequin costumes moving in perfect unison making one smooth line across the stage with their legs that appear to be connected but are not
Marcos Morau

Waltz

Production Info
30 minutes

Ballroom music sounds in the distance, obscured in time and trapped in the past, a shining creature emerge from the ashes.

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Dancers in black sequin costumes legs in air

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Creative Team

Length: 30 minutes 
Dancers: 8
First performed: 23 March 2023 at Pontio, Bangor 

Choreographer: Marcos Morau
Choreographic Assistants: Valentin Goniot and Marina Rodriguez


Music: Valse Triste, Op 44. (Berlin Philharmonic) by Jean Sibelius.
Suspirium by Thom Yorke
Crawler by Holly Herndon.
Pneuma by Caterina Barbieri 

Costume Supervisor and Costume MakerElizabeth Catherine Chiu, 
Costume Maker: Danial Thatcher
Lighting Programmer: Will Lewis 

Photo: Albert Pons

Choreographer

Marcos Morau

Marcos Morau sits on the floor in front of a trendy book case, he is white with a moustache and wears glasses
Reviews

“utterly compelling”

“striking visuals and visceral physicality”

"dazzling" 

The Times

remarkable unison”

“endlessly inventive”

“it’s rare in dance to feel totally intrigued by what might happen next”

The Observer

“meticulously drilled"

“eye-catching".

“mysterious, other-worldly"

Culture Whisper 

Marcos Morau

Between Barcelona and New York, Marcos Morau studied photography, movement and theatre. He builds worlds and imaginary landscapes where movement and image meet and shallow one another.

For over ten years, Marcos runs La Veronal, as director, choreographer, and set, light and costumes designer. He’s travelled the world presenting his pieces at festivals, theatres and international contexts.

Apart from his work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is an invited artist for various companies and theatres to develop new creations, always half way between scenic arts and dance, with special attention to dramaturgy. 

As the youngest National Dance Award in Spain, his language is part of a heritage, from abstract movement and physical theatre, blended together in a surrealist and dark amalgam. A powerful body language based in the annihilation of any organic logic, dissecting movement and making it into a unique identity.

Gallery
daners in a triangle formation, wearing black sequin catsuits and posing
a line of dancers in black glitter costumes linked together by their legs
dancers kneeling with arms out and heads back
an erie blue light pools on a glittering mass of bodies
Jill Goh leans back in a black catsuit