I found this movie just now...

"Desired Constellation"- by Björk

With a palm full of stars
I throw them like dice
Repeatedly
I shake them like dice
And throw them on the table
Repeatedly
Repeatedly
Until the desired constellation appears
And I ask myself:

How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?
And you hear
How am I going to make it right?

New eyes wanted

Maria, listen, I don't see anything...
the desert hill behind my window is just tones of sand,
the palm trees disappeared from my sight,
I pass the campesinos with no interest
Aymara language does not excite me any more
exotic fruits lost their taste
I feel far away
but
I don't feel here

tell me, how to feel new continents
new personal islands...

Back to work with DCP

The final phase of our project just started. With Deciertopicante, I am preparing the last performance, that will be premiered on the 6th September opening the artistic season of their spring. I am really excited. The piece, among other themes, focuses on the place of the theatre in the Latin culture- it is not seen as profession but as a hobby. Culture is a desert. I search how to give form and body for an artistic manifesto crossing over emotional and physical borders of each individual.

One of the strongest inspirations and point of reference remains Tadeusz Kantor and Banksy's work...

Cosas Raras

Strange things are happening in the city. Yesterday night a VENTERRON has hit the streets. It is strong wind with lots of sand, like a sand-torment. They told me that it is pretty rare, that it happens once in few years. During the day it looked as if entire hill covered the city, and it was still in the air till late afternoon, entering the mouth, ears and nose.
They warned me, that it is possible another venterron comes this night.
They warned me, that it is very possible new earth-shake comes soon.

Strange fear feeling my lungs.

Colca Canyon

There are many succesful bloggs about travels and discovering new places. Some of the succesful bloggers describe where, when, what and how. And so many people are wanting to read it, imagining that they live this adventure as well...

Yet I leave you with only these images from Canyon Colca and rural village Cabanaconde.

Resume June-July

In June, Deciertopicante has re-opened “Thespis Cafe”. A small, cosy place to have a drink and hapje is a side-project to generate income for sustaining artistic work of DCP. Every Thursday is called Jueves de Vanguardia (Thursday of Vanguard) and it's a culture program with focus on artistic innovation. It consists in shows, performances, art-cases, lectures, readings, interviews, etc. DCP has opened this series with presenting “Los Musicos de Bremen” a play directed by Roberto Palza based on the story of Grimm Brothers.

It is important to stress, that playing in non-conventional space of the cafe, using some structures of improvisation, the group showed evidence of progress, that our workshop is bringing results, that they are able to break old schemes and adapt “instant composition in real time in non conventional spaces” to enrich their artistic proposal. But for whom?

The attendance is poor, even though, the entrance is free. Might be due to the winter time, that keeps people home, might be due to not enough publicity, or simply, “Thespis Cafe” needs time...

In the meantime DCP continues to work hard. They realize autonomous work for primary schools commissioned by Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y la Priopiedad Intelectual, (INDECOPI). It is didactic theater with imposed subject or theme. And it is good paid. One more side project to make possible financial support for other artistic activities and productions of DCP.

In the month of June and July the group is realizing 30 shows, and, attention, every morning their performance in schools is seen by 100 -700 kids! The discussion about how to bring other artistic proposal, not imposed neither didactic, is in the air.

I am closing this first half of the placement with an anxious reflection, where does the energy and dedication to form second generation of actors go? One third of the DCP group will finish soon their universities. I share Roberto Palza's worries, that the family, which has great power in Latin America, soon starts to make pressure and stress the need for economical help for the family, who has maintained the child during their studies. Theater is seen as hobby, not as profession, and now is time to “pay back” and help by their younger brothers and sisters, which remains in number of 3, 4, 5 or more at home...

Next question appears: would be possible to support better the artistic development of their kids? Why couldn't theater or performing arts give better future? What if it could? How can I, with this small project influence such a big change...?