PEREGRINO: OFELIA

Both Rebeca Martìn and Elena Bylund has worked with Jessica Walker and her interpretation of Hamlet by William Shakespare in Laboratorio Escuela de Expreciòn Corporal Dramàtica. This is where our Ofelia was born. Only this time we are looking from the eyes of the female universe of Ofelia. Our profound motivation in this work is the continously impact on the most basic human values. Talking about values in our time requires us to start listening to our true essence. We need to question and break our masks. Ophelia serves as a mirror of today's women, whose reflection resounds directly in our hearts. Finding the essence of this woman means facing a total nudity, swimming in the waters of our personal material, because Ofelia not only invites us, but binds us to discover our true identity.

"Within this search is our death, our abandonment and our madness, this oasis and desert that life truly is. "

The theatrical narration of the facts in Ofelia is not realistic, but their presence is in our bodys dramatic language. Rebecca Martin and Elena Bylund use their body as the raw material in an open artistic expresion, facing an unknown dimension of themselves. They embody and unfold the character of Ofelia within themselves, which is fueled primarily by a state of beeing and presence. Simultaneously as this theatrical dimension Roberto Silva dedicates himself to collect the emotional substance of the human movement, and stillness. He lives as an eyewitness to capture these ephemeral images, the traces left by the ghost of Ofelia. He is Hamlets best frien and the only one to survive the tragedy, Horacio.

This is a work in pogress. The final presentation on stage as well as the exhibition Ofelia is the product of hard physical work and meditation. Rebeca Martìn and Elena Bylund`s final expression is a combination between experimental theatre and dance techniques with Roberto Silva present at every rehearsal and presentation, gathering the emotional substance of their movements. The painters result was always a cluster of pastel drawings wich he ends in an exhibition of oil paintings .

"Ophelia illuminates and enlightens our natural madness."

Drawings:

Oil paintings:

"PERSECUCIÓN CANÍBAL"

"STIGMA"

"EVERYTHING IS VIOLENT, EVERYTHING IS BRIGHT"

"OFELIA INTERRUMPIDA"

"EL BESO"

"LOCURA EN FLOR"

"OFELIA"

"CANTO A LA MUERTE"

"ANTES DEL FRIO"

"ESTRELLA FUGAZ EN EL CIELO DE LA TRAGEDIA"

"BRISA"

"BUTOH"

Direction: Rebeca Martín and Elena Bylund

Actors: Rebeca Martín and Elena Bylund

Painter: Roberto Silva

Photography: Frederique Bangerter/ Enrique Perescancio

Roberto Silva

Painter, draftsman and etcher. He studied drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts in Santurce Puerto Rico. With 17 years, Rafael Trelles, one of the most representative painters of the Puerto Rican contemporary art, took him as his apprentice. He decided to drop out in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Puerto Rico when the Latin American Chair of Fine Arts and Music gave him a scholarship to study engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro in Havana, Cuba. After finishing the degree in Cuba he continues with his pictorial work at the Canary Islands. Then he came to Barcelona to finish his series, Colorblind. His most recent series is “Ofelia”, witch he created in 2008 within the group “PEREGRINO” in Barcelona. He continues working with figurative art building images for the purpose of further developing his personal and artistic world.

Elena Bylund

She was born in Norway where her refuge always has been the theatre and the dance. In 1999 she startes " Buskerud Folkehoyskole " in Darbu(N) continuing with "Nordick Black Theater theatre school". Here she workes with teachers from around the world, including 5 rhythms, Ya Cov Darling Khan, Tim Dalton and the theater Beivash in the discipline and improvisation of the actor, Ellen Jørgesen and Øyvind Johansen in butoh dance and body expression. She continues her personal search of a breathing expression within different workshops in Norway, England, Sweden and Denmark to atlast come to Barcelona where she finds Laboratorio- Escuela de Expresión Dramatica in 2004. Where she creates

"Fyrstkkhjertet", "Hamlet" and "Compañeras de espera", direction Jessica Walker. She graduates as a teacher of Laboratorio- Escuela de Expresión Corporal Dramática in 2008. She is the founder of the group "PEREGRINO". With whom she creates "Ofelia", which was presented at theater festivals in Norway and Barcelona in 2008, and "Ofelia interrumpida" that had its premiere at BJCEM in Skopje, September 2009. She is currently developing the project "Laboratorio de Dibujo".

Nathatlia López Santacruz

Dancer, actress, yoga teacher, designer and fashion stylist. She is trained as a classical dancer since she was 7 years old. At 17 she continues her research also within other dance areas such as contemporary, jazz and spanish dance styles. Simultaneously finishes her career in Fashion, Style and Design. At the age of 25 she goes to Miami, London and Barcelona to broaden her knowledge and experience in these areas. In Germany she works several years at Levi's as a fashion stylist, in parades, events and editorials. In Barcelona, she starts Laboratorio Escuela de Expresión Corporal Dramática in 2004 where she investigates the experimental theatre and butoh dance. During these years she has created solos works, duo works and worked collectively to perform at festivals, theaters and events. She is currently participating the teachers training at Laboratorio Escuela de Expresión Corporal Dramática. She is also a part of Peregrino where we investigate dance, experimental theatre and fine arts.

PEREGRINO

OFELIA

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CONTACT

Roberto Silva

Elena Bylund

Nathatlia López Santacruz

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