Candela Capitan

"Candela Capitán - dance at the intersection of screen and body"

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For the first time at DE SINGEL: the ironic and playful worldview of the promising choreographer, dancer, and performance artist Candela Capitán from Seville. Candela’s unique work dances around wildly in the grey area between popular culture and subculture, theatre and fashion, performance and dance. She dives wholeheartedly into the dark depths of being human, while playing with female sexuality and voyeurism.

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Solas, her latest creation, features five performers, five computers, and an online platform where ‘women reflect upon themselves while being watched’. It is a choreography that effortlessly shifts from the bodies on stage to the screens, and back again. The interplay between MacBooks, smartphones, pink lycra bodysuits, and knee-high boots multiplies the viewer's gaze, like a dazzling kaleidoscope. Capitán’s reflection on the marketability of the female body as an object of desire is backed by a soundtrack from the popular Brazilian DJ Slim Soledad. A date with the future of dance.

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Technical trigger: This performance contains loud music (earplugs available) and strobe lights at the end.