July, 2020 - grec festival - mercat de les flors (BCN)

REQUIEM is the first word that appears in a pro defunctis or defunctorum mass, that is, a mass for the dead. A musical ceremony performed at a funeral as a memorial to a deceased that offers, through music, a point of light and spiritual comfort during the darkness of a grieving process. An ephemeral ritual that harmonizes the bridge between life and death and unites that community in which one of its members has gone from existing physically to existing in memory.

In this NOCTURNE REQUIEM, the different parts of the original liturgy of a requiem are replaced by scenes, songs and dances created from Bob Fosse's choreographic, social and personal universe, united by creating an in-disciplinary theatricality where movement, word, music and video dance together in a choreography for 10 performers and 2 live musicians. A ritualistic experience between legacy and parody, between humor and tenderness, to reflect on the beauty of death and transform the act of dying into a cabaret with lots of camp and glitter.

Bob Fosse filmed ALL THAT JAZZ in 1979, a kind of semi-autobiographical portrait about his life as an addict to drugs, sex and especially at work, and about his possible death. Taking this film as the main reference, but also all the rest of Bob Fosse's cinematographic legacy, the show is divided into three great acts as a symbol of the three great parts of a process of realization of a stage show: audition, creation and show. The history of de-function in any act of creation.