Sur Mundo Ensemble is an intercultural Dutch-Argentinean contemporary dance-theater formation that evolves from the Argentine tango.
GABRIELA ZUAREZ/ SUR MUNDO ENSEMBLE | TRANSCULTURAL TANGO IN CONTEMPORARY THEATER
Gabriela Zuarez, Argentinian-Dutch playwright and choreographer, has been living and working as a dance artist in the Netherlands for 18 years. Since 2017, she regularly travels to Buenos Aires on international exchange mission.
Gabriela Zuarez uses an eclectic, contemporary and hybrid physical language in her dance company Sur Mundo Ensemble. This language is constructed from different dance and theater movements and from the principles of tango movement and its cultural universe. This allows Zuarez to generate a new theatrical language in which "equality" is the DNA of the project. The main themes of his dramaturgical dance works are: the transcultural and the appearance of the "other", the physical abuse in creative exploitation; the theme of the basic tribal instinct in contemporary western society; the supposed approach to the theme of male sexual domination in tango.
Zuarez has worked for many years with Celeste Franco and Gerardo Agnese, with whom, among others, he established the Hybrid Languages research project in the Netherlands and Coreo-Lab in Argentina. The creation and results of DA CAPO are also due to their intense collaboration.
The three members of the small company are trained and graduated in classical and contemporary disciplines: dramaturgy, music, dance, cinema. Thanks to their interdisciplinarity and their open and creative vision, they have deepened and have years of experience in all the forms and disciplines that can be found in the different styles and periods of tango.
DA CAPO
DA CAPO is a dance show that represents a journey through time to the origins of the tango corps de ballet. An hour-long journey in which dance, music and light merge into a resplendent whole. And in which a new performance is created within that performance with a video recording.
SOURCE: dansmagazine.nl