'Saura explains that in the brutalist style, all the architecture is easy to build but difficult to take down. That idea captivated him, and the affective physicalities of this architectural construction formed the starting point of his research.'
In 1985, Bartoszek directed annual concerts and outreach under the auspices of, which she formalized to found Hedwig Dances. Bartoszek cultivates an interdisciplinary company, including visual components and original music. The dancers come from diverse cultural and movement backgrounds and are the main collaborators in the creation process of the company’s repertory.
Explains Saura: “Hedwig has its own life there; you can come and touch it and feel like you are part of something . . . here we are equal together and we follow guidance, but we can speak freely and be creative and be artists, which is sometimes more important than just having a body and dancing.” This agency attracted Saura to Hedwig Dances. He was born and raised in Cuba. After attending the National University of the Arts in Havana, he was a soloist with Danza Contemporánea of Cuba. Flashes of his life on the island spark in moments in his works.
was a video-synchronous hybrid piece that he directed virtually around the onset of the pandemic, fingering the pulse of that time. Saura references the situation Cuba has been in for years, which necessitates quick adaptation and solutions, ways to heat water or make food. “I feel like at some point in all of my pieces you can feel that, like fast, you can’t breathe, and you’re overwhelmed, because I grew up in that situation sometimes, so I kind of unintentionally have been seeing that already.”, Saura explains that in the brutalist style, all the architecture is easy to build but difficult to take down. That idea captivated him, and the affective physicalities of this architectural construction formed the starting point of his research.
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