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The Uruguayan National Team's good performance at the 2018 World Cup and the outstanding players, admired around the world, are an example of the country's talent in this sport and the pride that it awakens
A similar phenomenon occurs with the performing arts, since theater, dance, circus and puppets have eminent filmmakers with an audience appropriate to the impact of their expressions. Strong institutionality, diversity of thematic and aesthetic languages, plurality of production formats are the characteristics that highlight Uruguay in these arts.
Buenos Aires has already had the opportunity to enjoy this year half of Uruguay's focus as the theatrical complex of Buenos Aires, under the direction of Jorge Telerman, scheduled in its international season. Fire, Mouawad's famous work, with the production of the El Galpón Theater and the direction of the Brazilian Aderbal Filho, played four roles in the San Martin Theater's Salle Martín Coronado and showed how a theater cooperative founded around seventy years old in September 2019) can offer a brilliant reading of a twentieth century clbadic (another characteristic of the Uruguayan scene that does not appeal to its own authors but is attentive to what is written in the world and repertoire). [19659003] Enraged melancholy, written and directed by Marianella Morena, showed another form of independent production and a language marked by risk and sensitivity. Then come Sergio Blanco with El bellow of Düsseldorf and Gabriel Calderón with If, also in independent productions and who write and put styles that are not alike. The three are already known in Argentina by their own messages or by their texts represented by Argentine directors. The three with strong international careers, surely taken into account by the authorities of the Complex during the selection of the cycle.
The porteño public can see The Schrödinger Cat, by Santiago Sanguinetti, that under the direction of Pablo Seijó was chosen by the America + Europe Dramaturgy Festival, directed by Matías Umpiérrez, to represent Uruguay
The artists and entities cited are just one sample of a movement that not only settled in Montevideo but extended with specificities across the country. country
In the world of clbadical dance, the Sodre National Ballet is a unique example of audience development. Founded in a work resolutely focused on artistic excellence, the company has won the support of a mbadive public, both in Montevideo and in the interior of the country, and enjoys a great 39, a solid international prestige. Undoubtedly, Julio Bocca's remarkable leadership from 2010 to 2017 has shaped this phenomenon, which continues today in the hands of Spanish master Igor Yebra and consolidates his triumphs. During the World Cup, The Merry Widow was created, which not only sold the premises of the eleven scheduled functions, but also celebrated the successes of "The Celeste" on stage.
This is possible thanks to the talent of the directors and the team, the adhesion and affection that his star dancer, María Noel Riccetto, awakens, and also to the political will of provide the conditions for this to continue and consolidate.
The public creation of this company is now being studied by one of the leading academic institutions of Uruguay, the University of Claeh (Latin American Center of the 39, human economy), because it shows a public loyalty of different age, economic and social origin and that proportionally to the amount of population is absolutely singular Twenty thousand spectators in Montevideo equivalent to two hundred thousand in Buenos Aires (if we take into account the population of Conurbano who usually attends shows).
Contemporary dance in its diversity of expressions, with weaker institutional support because it does not have stable companies, also develops and has an impact on the world. At the upcoming Transmesse Fair in Düsseldorf, the leading international dance market, Uruguay will participate with its own stand and a catalog of many artists and works, including Andrea Arobba's Big Bang, which comes from to win 1,800 spectators in a single function at the Sodre National Auditorium. Uruguayan choreographers and dancers also organize their national dance plan and actively participate in the Ibero-American plan. This week is presented at El Matadero in Madrid, an exceptional center of exhibition and European experimentation, Antropofágica trilogy, creation of Tamara Cubas, which after its premiere in Montevideo and was exhibited in Vienna.
While sport and art have very different economic supports and organizational forms, they represent a society and they give it a unique character in the community of nations. And this is happening in contemporary Uruguay, which takes the context of its brilliant past in both expressions and projects it into the world.
* Cultural director and lawyer specialized in cultural rights.
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