Mousumturm, Frankfurt & Tanzhaus, Dusseldorf. Alemania

About the plays

LA FORMA (Solo, 2009)
(The shape)

Thus, form—in its specific idiom, style—is a plan of sensory imprinting, the vehicle for the transaction between Immediate sensuous impression and memory (be it Individual or cultural). This mnemonic function explains why every style depends on, and can be analyzed in terms of, some principle of repetition or redundancy.
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag


The work begins with the study of shape and the modifications it suffers upon kinetic combination with scenic time and space.
Throughout a procedure wherein the interpreter fills or plays to fill shapes that do not belong to him, the work sails between the ambiguity of masculine and feminine shapes. Appealing to evocation and memory, the scenes experiment modifications by the succesive in-and-out movements that the interpreter performs between his own shape and the qualities of the object represented.

Direction and choreography: Mariana Bellotto
Dancer: Luciana Glanc
Music by: Federico Zypce
Costumes: Luisita Buenaventura
Photos: Laura Arburua
Producer: Natalia Bellotto
Duración: 27 minutos.

This play has the support of PRODANZA 2009 and Fondo Nacional de las Artes.


ARGENTINITA (Solo, 2002)
(Little Argentinean)
Regarding restricted territories and points of view.

Created with a certain spirit feel for invoking times of crisis, this work demonstrate a pointed interest in revealing the consequences that result from human conduct under dire circumstances. From the very start, an atmosphere of uneasiness is perceived, a state that precedes the action. As though subsequent to catastrophe, some tragedy that has taken place or is still going on out there

In Argentinita the dancer performs within a restricted space, where gestures are limited by a situation that appears to be impossible to change. In the course of the work, we witness the protagonist’s passage through a process of transfiguration and decay. The progression of oppressive situations and the latent possibility of escape from the surrounding circumstances operate as a metaphor that lays bare an unsustainable condition of solitude and disenchantment.

Direction and Choreography: Mariana Bellotto
Dancer: Jazmín Chiodi
Original Music: Federico Zypce
Costumes: Luisita Buenaventura
Lighting: Gabriel Caputo
Photos: Martín Iturri
Producer: Natalia Bellotto
Duración: 25 minutos.

This play has the support of PRODANZA, Ministerio de Cultura de Buenos Aires; Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación Argentina; Antorchas Fundation and the Centre National de la Danse (France).
About Mariana Bellotto

Mariana Bellotto – choreographer, dancer and teacher engaged in contemporary languages of dance– has displayed pieces of creation and has lectured at several festivals and Argentine and foreign theatres.

All along her career, she has been awarded with acknowledgments, prizes, scholarships, financial grants and residencies, by different organizations as Prodanza, Ministry of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires; Argentine Secretary of Culture; Cultural Services of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Commerce and Religion; the Argentine Funds for Arts; the Experimental Centre of Colon Theatre; the Metropolitan Funds for Culture of Buenos Aires; the Contest of Contemporary Choreographic Creation - Miguel Covarrubias INBA-UAM 2007 Award, Mexico D.F.; the Centre National de la Danse (France); Antorchas Foundation; Cultural Affairs of the French Embassy in Argentina; the Goethe Institut Munich; FONCA CONACULTA (Mexico); among others.

Her works have been presented at distinguished theaters and has participated in numerous national and international festivals, among which we may highlight
The international Festival Les Allùmes of Nantes, France; the international festival Montpellier Danse, France; The International festival of Cadiz, Spain; the Contemporary Dance of Río de Janeiro, Brazil; 9° Dance Panorama of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; III Danza a mil Festival of Santiago de Chile; the Centre National de la Danse de Paris and Pantin, France; the International Festival of Buenos Aires; the Experimental Centre of Colon Theatre; the Presidente Alvear Theatre of Buenos Aires; the General San Martín Theatre, Buenos Aires; the Buenos Aires Contemporary Dance Festival; the International Festival of Dance of Busan, Korea; and the II International Dance Festival of Morelos, Mexico.

Among the works created by Mariana Bellotto we may highlight Tan lejos...tan cerca. (2009 /Work co-created with In Young Sohn; a co-production of La compañía and the Now Dance Company of seul, Korea); Blanco suspendido (2009); La forma (2009); arquitectura de la locura: Habitación 361 (2007/ Inspired on the work Estudo of León Ferrari); Slogans (2007); El último grito de la moda (2006 / Installation. Video object of dance and clothes. Malba Museum, contemporary space.); Sudoeste (2006/ Film of contemporary dance for La rosa de los vientos by Mauricio Kagel, CETC); Fermez Labouche (2005); Arder (2005/ Work for ten dancers and eight musicians, CETC); Miniaturas: Cuarteto Cartón – Twins – Argentinita (2002 / Triptych: Quartet, Duet and Solo); marea & rouge (2001); La Desbailada (2000); Sofá I/Sofá II (1999/ Diptych. Solo and Duet).

At present she is doing an artist residency awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina and FONCA / CONACULTA of Mexico, is giving seminars and is making choreography with the Company Foramen M. Ballet in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Also during 2010 Mariana Bellotto was a guest of the Tanzplattform Deutchland in Nuremberg for the preparation of her new projects.


Further information: www.marianabellotto.blogspot.com