Katastrophe
Four performers, eleven scaled models and hundreds of gummy bears create the world of Katastrophe: a stupid fable about human civilization focused on disasters. In this context, the gummy bears suffer earthquakes, oil spills, wars and extermination. Everything is performed live through chemical experiments and subversive actions. Around the stage, three large screens immerse the audience in this pop world of chaos, game and destruction.
Katastrophe questions the difference between a natural catastrophe, a “natural” catastrophe caused by man and a human catastrophe. Or to put it simply, if deaths provoqued by a tsunami are comparable to those caused by a radioactive leak, or to those produced by an atomic bomb. We have a very clear idea about that.
Katastrophe is nourished by the performing language that defines Agrupación Señor Serrano: performance, dance, physical theater, video in scene and interactive technologies.
Original idea: Àlex Serrano and Pau Palacios
Creators – Performers: Diego Anido, Martí Sanchez Fibla, Àlex Serrano and Pau Palacios
Assistant director and executive producer: Barbara Bloin
Interactive video: Martí Sánchez Fibla
Video production: Josep Maria Marimon
Masks making: Silvia Delagneau
Lighting consultant: Alex Aviñoa
Scientific consultant: Irene Lapuente (la Mandarina de Newton)
Project consultant: Víctor Molina
Lenght: 60′
Thanks: Erin, Adrià, Martí, Irene Capdevila, Pia Mazuela, Massimo Vesco, Ewa Gleisner, Gigi Piana, Rosa Pozuelo, Marta Galán, Julien Bouffier, Franck Bouchard, Pablo Rega, Raquel Regueira and Teatro Ensalle
Produced by Agrupación Señor Serrano and Festival Hybrides deMontpellier
With de collaboration of Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts
Supported by Centre National des Écritures du Spectacle (Avignon, France), Stalker Teatro (Torino, Italy), Odyssée Programme – ACCR (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France) and Sala Beckett (Barcelona)
Agrupación Señor Serrano is a resident company at Sabadell Centre pel desenvolupament de les Arts L’Estruch
