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Wednesday 19th
GAJUCA Theater company (Chile)
EL HALLAZGO "THE FINDING"

Butoh-Montage on the most ancient artificial mummies in the world.

Place: Degollado Theater
Time: 20:30 hrs.

Tickets: from $50.00 to $100.00 pesos

WHAT IS GAJUCA INTERNATIONAL?

It is a Chilean Experimental Theater company integrated more than 7 years ago.

Our stagings have been presented in great art festivals in America, Europe and Asia.

The history of the company is based on theater performances and the Butoh technique, fusing both disciplines in a constantly evolving artistic proposal.

EL HALLAZGO "THE FINDING"

Butoh-Montage on the most ancient artificial mummies in the world.

P R E S E N T A T I O N

This show is based in an original idea of Juan José Olavarrieta, our director.

The Gajuca Company is outstanding for its experimental character because while emphasizing theatrical structure, it also narrates a story created by the author without abandoning the dancistic aspects pertaining to the Butoh technique.

Actors take our audiences back more than 9,000 years through all the personal experience and sensations of our most primary motions.

By taking their bodies to the uttermost extreme of their possibilities, both in emotions and corporal abilities, the staging breaks up with the traditional white Butoh target, immersing us into the distinctive black (grey), red and whitish colors which define the mummification period of their representation.

Because of the power and avant-gardism that its scenic language manifest, this play is mainly addressed to young audiences (over 16 years) given that the spectators will be living a rite on stage and become a part of this last day  of the Chinchorro people.

 ITS HISTORY

Juan José Olavarrieta, playwright and director, immerses us in the pre-ceramic Chinchorro culture, people located in Africa (first Chilean region). As civilization, the Chinchorros have a more than 9,000 year-old history, which leads us to “these mummies being the oldest artificial mummies in the world.”

The plot tells us about the last long day in the life of Solaria, Erina and Dorán, three inhabitants of this ancient civilization, who narrate how, on dying, they slowly transform into the different types of mummies that existed in that culture: black, red, and whitish.

This staging not only takes us to the mortuary rites of this people; it is a return to the days when death was seen as a sharing between the dead and the living, and not like our civilization’s present idea on that ineluctable moment through which all of us shall leave this world, death.

The story shows and recounts the intimate dependency relation existing among them, where every inhabitant was essential for the survival of the group, immersing us in a world of sensations and images which are a trip to our own elementary emotions, such as pain, happiness, childbirth and death.

SHOWS

• Universidad de las Artes Fórum Festival, Monterrey, México. October 2007.
• Vilnus Festival, Lithuania. September 2007.
• International Ollín-Kan Festival, Mexico City. May 2007.
• International San Marcos Fair, Aguascalientes, Mexico. April 2007.
• Santiago de Querétaro Festival. May 2007.
• Oaxaca Humanists Festival. May 2007.
• International Ciudad del Carmen Festival, Campeche. June 2007.
• Teatro Helénico, Sala La Gruta TEMPORADA, Mexico City. April-May 2007.
• Mérida International Festival, Cancún, Mexico. January 2007.
• Staging at Teatro San Ginés. Chile. January 2007.
• International Zacatecas Festival, Mexico. October 2006.
• Puerta de las Américas Festival, Mexico. June 2006.
• International Taxco Festival, México. May 2006.
• Sala Finís Terrae Seasons, Chile. Since April 11, 2006.
• Berlin Dock 11 and Sophien Sale Shows, Germany. November 2005.
• Universidad Nacional de Colombia Festival, Bogotá. August 2005.
• Itinerancia Nacional en Chile Fondart Winners 2005.
• Northern Encounter XI Festival, Copiapó, Chile. 2005.
• 1st Physical Theater Festival, U. Finís Terrae. 2004.
• Alcalá de Chile Theater since September 30, 2004.
• Debut and a three month season at the Montecarmelo de Providencia Theater, Arica, Chile. March 2004.

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PARTICIPANTS

Juan José Olavarrieta Gómez
Director and actor

Studies and Licenciates

• Universidad de Chile – Theater Direction Magister.
• Universidad Arcis – Theater Performance.
• Universidad Central – Psychology

Summary of Professional Work, 2005- 2007

Juan José  Olavarrieta Gómez
Director

• Butoh Workshops, “Foro Universal de las Artes”, Monterrey, México.
• Took part on the staging of “El Hallazgo” (The Finding), at “Festival de Sirenas” (Mermaid Festival), in Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Participated with the staging of “El Hallazgo” during the “Foro Universal de las Culturas”, Monterrey, Mexico.
• Dramatized reading of the staging “Las Meninas”, in the setting of the “Festival del Centro Histórico”, Mexico City.
• Dramatized reading of the staging “Las Meninas” in the setting of the “Festival Muestra de Dramaturgia Nacional”, Querétaro.
• Co-Director of “Caminante”, Butoh solo with Makiko Tominaga, world première in Mexico City. (Teatro Helénico).
• Shows in more than ten Festivals in Mexico.
• Duo season with Makiko Tominaga. Berlin, Germany.
• “Mictlán” Show. Tokio, Japón.

2006

• Berlin, Germany.
• Fondart Winner in “Chile Intérprete".  Scholarships and tutorships.
• International Festival Circuit through Puebla, Monterrey, Zacatecas and Taxco, showing “El Hallazgo”, “Parido desde el Cielo” (From Heaven Born) and Butoh Workshops in all cities.
• “Mictlán” shows and Butoh Workshops at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

2005

• Germany Tour, “El Hallazgo” and “Mictlán”, Berlin, Gottingen, Broeling.
• Colombia International Tour “El Hallazgo”, Bogotá, Fusagasuga, Cali.
• Gira Nacional, Ganadores Fondart, “El Hallazgo”, Norte de Chile.
• “Mictlán” and “El Noveno Círculo” (The Ninth Circle) premiere, U. Finnis Terrae, Chile.
• Staging and performance of “Coatlicue”, Butoh duo, conducted by Minako Seki in Berlin, Germany.
• Staging and performance of “Mictlán”, Butoh duo. Pirámide del Sol, Teotihuacán, Mexico.

Marisol Torres

Production and Public Relations

Studies and Licenciates

1992 – 1996 Theater Degree at Universidad de Teatro de Chile
2000 – 2002 Post Graduate: Theater Director Magister, U de Chile.
2001 -- 2003 Post Graduate: Prevention against Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Psychodrama – Dramatherapy, U de Chile.
2004 – 2005 Post Graduate in Marketing and Self-management (Cultural), U de Chile.

Summary of Professional Work 2005 / 2007

• Self-Management Workshop, “Foro Universal de las Artes”. Monterrey, Mexico.
• Participated in staging “El Hallazgo”, for “Festival de Sirenas”, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Participated in staging “El Hallazgo”, during the “Foro Universal de las Culturas”. Monterrey, Mexico.
• Dramatized Reading Producer for “Las Meninas” staging, during the “Festival Centro Histórico”, Mexico.
• Producer for staging of “Caminante”, Butoh solo with Makiko Tominaga, world premiere in Mexico City. Teatro Helénico.
• Producer for more than 10 festivals in Mexico for the Gajuca Company and the stagings “Parido del Cielo” y “El Hallazgo”.
• Producer of duo with Makiko Tominaga. Berlin, Germany.
• Producer of the “Mictlán” shows. Tokyo, Japan.

2006

• On Tour Producer for Accud Theatre. Berlin.
• On tour Producer for Fondart, Chile.
• International Festival Circuit Producer for Puebla, Monterrey, Zacatecas and Taxco, showing “El Hallazgo” and “Parido del Cielo”.
• Producer for “Mictlán” shows and Butoh Workshops at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá.

2005

• Tour Producer in Germany for “El Hallazgo” and “ Mictlán” Berlin, Gottingen, Broeling.
• International Tour Producer for Colombia with “El Hallazgo” Bogotá, Fusagasuga, Cali.
• Fondart Winners National Tour Producer for “El Hallazgo”. North Chile.
• First Night Opening Producer for “Mictlán”, “El Noveno Círculo” U. Finnis Terrae Chile.
• Performer with staging of “Coatlicue”, Butoh duo conducted by Minako Seki at Berlin, Germany.
• Show Producer at Denmark Festival for “Mictlán”, Denmark.

Lidia Serrano , actress (Chile)

Pilar Couto , actress (Chile)

Juan Jose Olavarrieta, director and actor (Chile)

Rodrigo Villena Yamamoto, photographer, lights and image 

Kotty Villela, technician chief

Marisol Torres, producer and public affairs

Karina Vazquez, production assistant

David Torrealba, digital image and projection

Thanks to:

Nocivo, Lan Chile, Cámara Chileno Mexicana, Gobierno de Chile, Conaculta.

Special thanks to:

Universidad de Tarapaca de Chile- Arica Chile

Calojero Santoro decano de antropologia

Bernardo Arriaza: decano de antropologia

Museo San Miguel de Azapa- Arica- Chile

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