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David Zambrano
It begins...spontaneously...an
extraordinary, unpredictable presentation and experience of being continuously alive. On, like a candle. The music starts and dancers emerge from
the audience, moving to a sublime live recording of a "vintage" soul singer - Aretha
Franklin, Ike & Tina Turner, Bettye Lavette, Gladys Knight & The
Pips - following their own movement quest to embody the dance as deeply and
powerfully as the singer reveals the song.
Soul Project, conceived and directed by the legendary David Zambrano,
in collaboration with a cast of seven remarkable performers from Mozambique, Slovenia,
Greece, Slovakia, the U.S.
and Venezuela,
simultaneously creates a sense of heightened perception and grounded physicality. Designed to be performed in an open space-a gallery,
black box, gymnasium, ballroom, church, large stage, or even outdoors-Soul Project is a series of virtuosic solos,
each lasting the length of a song; but the order of the solos and their
location in the space is a function of chance, making each night's performance
unique.
Throughout the work, the audience is invited to mingle, get close to the cast, and witness the dance from any angle they choose. All at once the experience is intimate and personal-you can feel every tremble and sigh of the performers' bodies-and communal, as together with the rest of the audience you anticipate the next dancer and the next song, and share in the discovery once it begins.
Soul Project has been performed extensively throughout Europe and it had it U.S. premiere at The Danspace Project in NYC in January 2010 as part of the "I Get Lost" platform curated by Ralph Lemon.
The Spring 2012 U.S. tour will mark the debut U.S. tour for this acclaimed work.
Soul Project at Dublin Dance Festival 2009 from davidzambrano on Vimeo.