Jesús Rubio Gamo
| A work by: | Jesús Rubio Gamo |
| Lighting design: | Irene Cantero |
| Costume: | Naldi Fernandes |
| Artistic support: | Elena Córdoba |
You are a dancer. You dance, you summon other bodies, you organise forms and energy in space, they are choreographies. You run, you chase, you fall, you keep running, you know you're going after something even though you don't remember what it is. One day everything stops all of a sudden. You look back: up to here, everything has been movement but, in what's important, you have been standing still for a long time.
You have repeated the same sequences countless times, there were days when you felt pleasure, intensity, communion, joy. The rest, great tiredness. You have travelled all over the world, you have studied in several different places and you have tried to keep the best of each. You have practised martial arts to learn how to balance flow and control. You have moved your hips and sternum to the rhythm of African drums to see if you could get close to some kind of trance that should still be in any dance. You have practised the abdominal contractions with which Martha Graham gave identity to her new American dance and you have dropped your torso to feel the weight in the way José Limón tried to abandon himself to gravity for a few moments. You have made an effort to eat it all. One night, you kneel down in the bathroom and vomit a remnant of Cunningham.
And then it is the day you need to stop, you move the furniture of the living room, you breathe, you change your weight from one foot to the other, gently, and start looking through what's left. All that mobility should serve you well today.
Jesús Rubio Gamo
El hermoso misterio que nos une (The beautiful mystery that unites us) is an ode to body mobility, to thought mobility. To the flow of ideas, of our questions, of small revelations. To our ability to remember and to present ourselves.. To all that world that does not stop appearing no matter how lonely we are, no matter how isolated
Jesús Rubio Gamo (Madrid, 1982) is an independent dancer and choreograph who produces his own creations since 2008. He has studied classic ballet, contemporary dance, theatre and literature in institutions such as the Royal Higher College of Performing Arts (RESAD), the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance Mariemma (RCPDM) or the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.. He was awarded a MAE-AECID scholarship (2005-2007) to develop a Master's Degree in Choreography at the London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), which he completed with the grade of Distinction. He has also a Master's Degree in Stage Practice and Visual Culture from the UAH in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
His pieces have been represented at festivals such as Chantiers d'Europe, at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris; Brandhaarden Festival, at the International Theatre Amsterdam; the Swedish National Dance Network; Escena Contemporánea, in Madrid; Hay Festival, in Arequipa; or the RomaEuropa Festival.
Rubio Gamo was selected for two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018, by the Aerowaves Dance Network as one of the 20 most outstanding young choreographers on the current European scene. His previous work includes GRAN BOLERO (GREAT BOLERO) for which he won the Max Award for the Best Dance Show 2020. It is a choreography for 12 dancers (6 from Madrid and 6 from Barcelona), co-produced by Teatros del Canal and Mercat de les Flors and created with the support of Conde Duque Madrid, the Universidad Complutense and the Region of Madrid. He is currently working on his new creation, ACCIONES SENCILLAS (SIMPLE ACTIONS), which will premiere in June 2021 at the Teatro del Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque.