Collaborative project · 2015 · Canada
Arbole
Visual set design
Photo: Tony Field
Rinat’s drawings of trees left the paper and went on stage. The flamenco dancer Fiona Malena projected them at backdrop size for «Arbole», her flamenco show in Canada.
The forest stops being a picture to look at and becomes the place where something happens. The dancer does not stand in front of it: she steps inside the drawing, and what was a root or a branch turns into the shadow of a moving body.
They are the same roots that hang on a gallery wall — those of «La raíz de uno es uno» — put to work in a different way.
The drawing, projected
The trees take the stage
The backdrop is a wall-sized drawing by Rinat. What you look at head-on in a gallery has to be passed through here.
Flamenco
Dancing inside the drawing
Sometimes the dancer is one more silhouette among the branches, and sometimes she is the only thing in colour.
And the poster
Arbole
Credits
- Visual set design and artwork
- Rinat Izhak
- Company
- Fiona Malena Flamenco
- Photography
- Tony Field Mary Lim Adam Newby
- Show website
- fionamalena.com/arbol