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THE PIT OF A THOUSAND DEMONS
From December 16 to January 15, the Fernando Arrabal Theater will host a performance of Maribel Carrasco's The Pit of a Thousand Demons, directed by Cristina D. Silveira of Karlik Danza-Teatro. This text is a key piece of dramatic literature for children in Mexico. A story to share with the family, where dreams and memories intertwine, it speaks to the recovery of cultural identity, the care of nature, and the importance of preserving water.
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Presentation of the 22-23 season of the Teatro Español
LICENSED GLASSWINDOW
"How can a short novel written by Cervantes in 1613 become a resoundingly contemporary, engaging, interesting, evocative, and at times visually charged performance? Cristina D. Silveira has brought this to life on stage, translating it into action through a dramaturgy that combines music, dance, and theater. An original proposal..."
THE HERALD OF ARAGON - Joaquín Melguizo
THE LIFE OF SALMON
“Karlik Dance Theater, directed by Cristina D. Silveira, is a work of beauty, both visually and sonically, and poetically, with significant content of profound political and social significance. Yes, even for children's theater. This is a daring production for audiences with cultivated palates that aren't content with just eating whatever they're given; it's for a sensitive audience, capable of appreciating the projected images, the plasticity of the dance, the sweet song, and the powerful words, full of purpose in perfect harmony and conjunction. We're talking a production of ten out of ten.”
ARTEZBLAI - Manuel Sesma Sanz
"How theater is beauty. Cristina D. Silveira has invented a sensitive dramaturgy that combines the plasticity of dance with projected images, the vigor of gestures, and the breath and sweetness of songs. She doesn't just unite these languages. She weaves them together, intertwines them. With delicacy, with care, with meaning, with harmony.
A resounding staging. Beautiful, imaginative, daring, and far from clichés.
HERALD OF ARAGON - Joaquín Melguizo
WANGARI, THE TREE GIRL
“Today, Karlik presented us with the most accomplished stage performance, with all the rigor of the most demanding staging, with all the power of rupture dance, and he provoked in all of us who were present at the show a fire of forgotten passion.”
THE IMPARTIAL (Oaxaca, Mexico) - Patricia Alvarez
“Discovering something worthwhile is always appealing, but it's difficult to achieve. When this happens and you find a show that you're enchanted by, you're in luck. That's what happened with the Karlik Danza Teatro company and their show Wangari, the Tree Girl. It's a performance that requires you to forget about dance and vocal techniques because everything is so well done and well thought out.”
HERALD OF ARAGON - Carmen de La Figuera
PROMETHEUS FROM FIRE TO LIGHT
“The audience, standing, applauded for several minutes, until it moved the actors themselves. The words are reduced to their bare minimum: red, black, and white outline the story, the actors fly across the stage, fire appears from beneath the earth, music envelops the audience, and Prometheus splits into man and woman. Cristina D. Silveira and Memé Tabares, directors of Prometheus from Fire to Light, two women seasoned in a thousand battles and knowledgeable about the setting, manage to expand the space of the Roman Theatre to unimaginable limits, embedding the stage practically within the audience, declassifying the powerful columned facade with impressive wooden poles strung between steel cables, opening up the floor with fire-spewing shafts, and placing the five musicians in the theatre's stately box, beneath the statue of the goddess Ceres.”
EL PAIS - Jeremiah Clemente
"The dynamism of Prometheus conquers the public of Mérida.
The audience rewarded the Extremadura company with a standing ovation that lasted several minutes.
Prometheus, From Fire to Light impressed the audience with its visual impact. The beauty and rhythm of the choreography were accompanied by powerful and haunting music. Meanwhile, the spectacular scenery and the exotic touch of the costumes added even more charm to the production.
“Festival Highlights!!!!”
THE NEWSPAPER TODAY - Miguel Ángel Lucas
A COURAGEOUS MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN IN PURGATORY
“Live music—performed by a band installed high above the stage—sets the pulse of each choreography, which was directed by Cristina D. Silveira of the Spanish company Karlik danza teatro. They created a scene that is worth attending just to witness: three naked women climb tree branches hanging from the ceiling and delicately spread their bodies above them.”
EL MERCURIO - Bárbara Muñoz
European critics have praised the success of the theatrical production "Mother Courage and Her Children in Purgatory," by the Extremadura-based company Karlik Danza Teatro and the Chilean-French group Teatro del Silencio, co-produced by the Department of Culture of the Regional Government of Extremadura.
...highlights in their comments how “the artists use both their own bodies (they have the strength of athletes and the skill of acrobats) and their hearts with force.” They also emphasize that the production “is like attending the circus, a rock concert, a Spanish procession, a medieval fair, a classical ballet, a football match, and a dance at the same time.”
THE EXTREMADURA NEWSPAPER
MARIA ZAMBRANO, THE DANCING WORD
…a wonderful, groundbreaking work, ahead of its time and space.
…a stage proposal that opens the mind and fills the heart.
A piece conceived and directed by Cristina D. Silveira, who has managed to establish a rhythm and an ensemble of music and shots that elevate the human, literary and philosophical significance of the protagonist, the Spanish philosopher who died more than 30 years ago, whose approaches remain valid and await consolidation in the search for new human beings who create a new society by making life the true work of art of each existence.
A flawless performance, with surprising synchronicity and a complementarity in the gazes, dance steps, and gestures of the two performers of this dance-theatre piece, Lara Martorán and Elena Rocha, from the Karlik Company, which specializes in this type of performance.
…they play with light and shadow, with colors and their absence, with silence and the stentorian cry of reality that glides across the stage in the form of moving parallelepipeds that make up the background and the subtext of the message.
...we must applaud the splendid set design, costumes, and graphic design by Susana de Uña, the voice of singer Anna Picornell, the audiovisual production by Yorgos Karailias, and the lighting by David Pérez.
THEATRICAL CHRONICLE SUMMARY by Francisco Javier Aguirre
Esquinas Theater, Zaragoza
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MARIA ZAMBRANO, THE DANCING WORD
It's a subtle, nuanced production, with positive touches, especially in the performers' dialogue with the space and the translation of ideas into gesture; praiseworthy, in any case, and even more so given the enormous challenge it entails.
With a mobile, effective and eloquent set, especially in complicity with the audiovisual elements and the voice of María Zambrano herself, The Dancing Word contains passages of great beauty, such as the death of Araceli and the mystical solitude in which Claros del bosque was born.
MALAGA TODAY - Pablo Bujalance
Produced by David Pérez and Karlik danza, the work starring Elena Sánchez Nevado and Lara Martorán was revealed as a vibrant poetic exercise, where the word, the body movement, the music of Álvaro Rodríguez Barroso and the voiceover of María Zambrano herself, generated a magical atmosphere where the Aristotelian influence that places reason in the heart joined with the fragility of a woman who spent almost her entire life glued to a suitcase, with years of exile in Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Italy, France or Switzerland.
ALMERIA DIARY - DM
“This visually stunning work, delicate and full of nuances and details, pays tribute to María Zambrano on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Cervantes Prize, the first awarded to a female writer. This work is a beautiful, abstract representation, dark yet vital and moving, with haunting and gloomy passages in some parts. A marvel to experience and enjoy outdoors under the stars and the July moon.”
HYSTERICAL RECORDINGS - Josechu Egido Pinal
Little Girl Frida
"Karlik has beautifully captured, in just a few words, the conjunction of music and dance, with the beautiful chromaticism achieved; with a highly accomplished costume—awarded along with the music at the European Children's Theatre Fair Feten in Gijón."
The play tells us about Frida Kahlo's struggle, and it does so in a wonderful way. Through dance. Visually. Capturing the audience's senses from beginning to end, capturing everyone's attention and captivating their emotions.
THE EXTREMADURA NEWSPAPER - Jacinto García Alonso
AMLO II AS HAMLET SAID IT
“A stunning show combining aerial theatre, dance, stilt walks, rope walks... A vibrant and essential version of Hamlet.”
THE LATEST NEWS
“...The result balances the rigor of the performers, the plastic beauty of the images and the overwhelming power of the tragedy.”
THE SECOND
"...Intense creative work and theatrical exploration...this is a must-see production. Its language, its scenic display, and the simplicity of its emotional intent all deserve it."
FRONT LINE
“Those who submit to this new theatrical surprise will be propelled from their seats by the only means to the heart: emotion.”
Angelica Meneses
“Witnessing Amloii as Hamlet said it is a cultural necessity of the first order. DON'T MISS IT.”
THE THIRD, THE GUIDE
“[...] It's rare in our country to have the opportunity to witness this kind of show. The kind that lives on in the memory, and from which one emerges comforted by the theater. By the magic of the stage performance.”
Eduardo Guerrero del Río
“The essence of drama in an even more dramatic costume. The naked bodies, the visceral gestures, the tremendous scenery, the soul-stirring music... Hamlet, as Hamlet said, makes it clear that the lack of theater is felt in these parts.”
Romina de la Sotta
“One of the best shows of recent years”
Greater Valparaiso
