The first large-scale production by choreographer Antonio Ruz will open the 36th edition of the Dansa València Festival, next 19 April, at the Teatre Principal.
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Premiered last October in the red room of the Teatros del Canal, to great acclaim from audiences and critics alike, the first large-scale production by choreographer Antonio Ruz will open the 36th edition of the Festival Dansa València.
A forceful stage production, winner of the Talía Award for Best Choreography 2023, with 11 performers who move through choreographies full of violence, subtlety and theatricality, throwing themselves, with all their physicality, into a feast of combat.
The violence of the world, the uneasiness and the constant struggle for survival, for a refuge from adversity, become here an elevated and sublime aesthetic experience. A critical and committed reflection on cruelty and barbarism in contemporary society. ‘Pharsalia' is an anti-war chant to dance as a weapon of liberation and saving energy.