Loop 3

Making a capsule that travels in time is that the complete work from 10 years ago by the national choreographer Jose Vidal & Inc.

The work is structured based on 9 paintings in which the performers recreate baroque paintings and contemporary photographs that range from a battle scene and religious worship to a rugby match. The work explores the behavior of bodies organized in community, thus becoming a utopia of a micro society that is understood as an object, in which still images come to life, organically mutating from one to another - in an endless loop that resembles a meditation - building a sculpture in motion.

The viewer witnesses the three-dimensionality of the image that rotates in 360 degrees, thus experiencing all the points of view of this sculpture. The beauty lies in the transition of these characterized and staged scenes towards a living, fused and homogeneous mass, which breathes, smells, sounds and perspires.

Loop. 3, is a project that was born in London from a research project part of the Choreodrome residency awarded by The Place, Robin Howard Dance Theater and was presented as a work in progress at the Touch Wood Festival in September 2009. As a result of the result, The Place financed the development of the project, which was presented in the Square Dances season at The Place in June 2010 and arrived in Chile in October 2010 in its third version with national performers to inaugurate the theater of the new GAM Center.

Director: Jose Vidal
Cast: Loreto Leónvendagar, Paula Sacur, Francisca Sazié, Natalia Bakulic, Ana Manríquez, Sebastián de la Cuesta, Gonzalo Morales, Gonzalo Beltrán and Jesús Briceño
Original music: Álex Anwandter and Cristián Bidart 
Photo credit: Jorge Sánchez.