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Medea material.

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995, Abderhalden, Heidi, Abderhalden, Rolf, Pinzón, Isauro, Mapa Teatro
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https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/tmpg4ft7
Title
Medea material.
Other title
Medea material (Canto primero / Cantos 9 y 10)
Author/Creator
Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995, Abderhalden, Heidi, Abderhalden, Rolf, Pinzón, Isauro, Mapa Teatro
Restrictions/Permissions
Access is open to all web users, Copyright holder: Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas, Contact information: Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden, Carrera 7 Nº 23-08, Bogotá, Colombia, +57-1-284-4899 (business), +57-1-599-6795 (fax), info@mapateatro.org, http://www.mapateatro.org
Language
Spanish
Date
©1991
Format
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (video file) (88 min.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Mapa Teatro, creator, producer ; Heidi Abderhalden, producer ; Rolf Abderhalden, director ; Isauro Pinzón, musical director ; Heiner Müller, author ; Rolf Abderhalden, Sergio Mesa, translators ; Lía de Roux de Caceido, Rolf Abderhalden, dramaturgy ; Sergio Mesa, composer ; Elizabeth Abderhalden, costume designer ; Daniel Demont, lighting designer, technical director ; Ron Abderhalden, set designer. Marta Senn (mezzosoprano), protagonist ; Heidi Abderhalden, Adriana Albarracín, Carlos Caycedo, Harold Moreno, Julia Pardo, Miguel Ángel Pazos, Ramiro Sandoval, John Alexander Toro, performers ; Adriana Guevara, Héctor Ramón, Ludmila Sandoval, Sandra Sichaca, Isauro Pinzón, musicians.
Notes

Video documentation of Heiner Müller's 'Medea Material, ' the first production of the Mapa Teatro's 'Müller cycle.' This musical theater production features Colombian mezzo-soprano Martha Senn as Medea, along with a chamber ensemble formed by members of the Philarmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. Constructed out of huge sheets of wrapped cloth, the figure of Medea towers over her subjects and creators in a classic and surrealistic representation of tragedy, magic and myth. After the documentation of the performance, this video includes close-up shots of the diverse characters, showing details of their make-up, their costumes, and the stage. The aesthetic and visual achievement of this production, as well as its showcase of Colombian musical talent, brought considerable recognition to Mapa Teatro in the first decade of its artistic development. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

One of the foremost artistic companies in Colombia, Mapa Teatro (www.mapateatro.org) has been producing theater, performance and art installation projects since 1984. Founders and directors, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden have created a wide ranging repertoire of theater, opera, mixed-media performance, and site-specific installation. Their work proposes richly textured visual metaphors in which they consider often complex psychological, social and political relationships. Committed to experimentation, and less interested in the actor as an 'agent of fiction, ' they describe their project as 'a laboratory of social imagination, ' that offers a space for presenting community issues and human concerns in media and performance. This combination of real-life situations and sites along with highly stylized aesthetic staging produces a tension between real action and (re)presentation. Mapa Teatro draws from live events captured on video such as the demolition of a neighborhood in Bogotá, ritual practice, and texts that explore the relationship of postmodern subjects, myth and metaphor. Mapa Teatro has performed by commissions, festivals and collaborative projects world-wide. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics