"Make us, if you will, enemies of all nations, but keep civil war away from us..... So miserable is it to emerge victorious from a civil war! The Cordovan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65 AD), Seneca's grandson, wrote this sentence in the only work by him that has survived to the present day, the 'Pharsalia' or 'Bellum Civile', an unfinished epic poem in ten cantos about the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus which, because of its complex vitality, has generated multiple criticisms, meanings and interpretations throughout history. But its relevance today exudes a clear message of invocation of freedom and rejection of tyranny. In its story, only resistance is heroic, and its lament proclaims a grievance that reaches a universal character.

But how does a play from more than twenty centuries ago resonate with the contemporary stage? Can beauty be found in the chaos of war? 

Taking Lucan's 'Pharsalia' as a starting point, this choreographic work explores the concept of war from an allegorical approach, placing the body at the service of everyday concepts such as conflict, crisis, resistance, tension or evasion. But human beings are not satisfied with their state of war, and it is here that the vestiges of beauty, of our hope, appear on the scene.

Unfortunately, there are currently more than ten active war conflicts around the world. War has been with us since the beginning of civilisations, it is in human nature to desire and ambition, which leads to collective insecurity and struggle. It is a brutal and dangerous process, but it is part of our species. Civil, computer, biological, nuclear, global, world, holy, border, psychological, family, internal, with oneself, in the end, wars, and at any moment we feel that they can break out, turning us into warriors or victims. 

With a forceful scenic and costume proposal and an original musical creation that travels between the epic and the electronic, 11 performers move through choreographies charged with violence, subtlety and theatricality, throwing themselves, with all their physicality, into a feast of combat. Bodies at war that evoke landscapes of strange yet captivating beauty.