Mónica García and Ana Vallés / Matarile
| Creation and performance: | Mónica García and Ana Vallés |
| Real-time lighting, set and sound design: | Baltasar Patiño |
| Assistant director: | Ricardo Santana |
| Costume: | Naftalina and Matarile |
| Video: | Edición Rusa |
| Photographers: | Rubén Vilanova, Edición Rusa and Ana Hevia |
| Technical assistance: | Miguel Muñoz |
| Acknowledgements: | Producións Zopilote |
| Domestic production and distribution: | Juancho Gianzo |
“The artists, who have excellent technical expertise, investigate their bodies, fuse together, intertwine, face each other and explore their nooks and crannies in a complicated game of body tetris. There's something lofty, an element of bullfighting, in contrast to the delicacy of their movements”.Eva Vallines, La Nueva España
It's said of Matarile's theatre that it "needs an audience with an open mind". Perhaps because Galicia's first contemporary theatre group, which is now more than 30 years old, encountered in the avant garde, in closeness and in innovation, the driving force of its stage activities. In the year 2000, Ana Vallés, actress, director and co-founder of the company, and Monica García, dancer and choreographer, met during the creative process of Fine Romance by Provisional Danza. And one thing led to another. They have worked together in Matarile since 2007 and after years of wishing to form a duo, emerged Los limones, la nieve y todo lo demás.
The bodies of Ana Vallés and Mónica García burst onto a minimalist stage to meet and fuse in a scenic ode that is unsupported by texts. References to Roberto Bolaño, Friedrich Nietzsche, Slavoj Žižek and Henry David Thoreau abound in a creation that is penetrated from the very beginning by Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, where all the elements respond in unison to the sway and contact of their bodies.
"The temptation to leave everything and run away to somewhere else.
The persistent desire to cut through fantasy and the realities
of our invented characters.
Perhaps by avoiding the return, we can put off the departure,
while we hear the words of the madman
or embrace beauty, with a guilty conscience.
Let's enjoy this perfect day".
says Matarile in Los limones, la nieve y todo lo demás.
The 37th Autumn Festival will be a witness to the talent and the non-verbal discourse of these two unique creators. According to critics: "there's a fleshy and fruity manner of holding each other and exploring the possibilities of dancing and advancing together (Afonso Becerra, Artezblai). "Theatre is written on the boards, with bodies breached by the space, disappearing in it, or becoming one with it", declares Ana Vallés.