Los Materiales de la ira y el amor
Wilson Pico
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 – Sunday, October 14, 2018
Ada Slaight Hall
80 minutes
Canadian premiere
Accessible to all language groups
Los Materiales de la Ira y el Amor (The Materials of Wrath and Love) is a triptych of female characters presented through the dances La Beata, Boca Ira and Mujer. In La Beata, the rigid expectations of a culturally dominant religion are explored. In Boca Ira, an embodied female moulds with remarkable plasticity into an expression of hunger. In the climactic Mujer, the feverish rhythm of Philip Glass’s score accompanies the artist in revealing 24 hours of a woman’s life and her personal history of oppression. The prolific Indigenous dancer and choreographer Wilson Pico makes his long-awaited return to Canada with this presentation.
October 10, 2018 at 7:00 PM
October 11, 2018 at 8:30 PM
October 13, 2018 at 7:00 PM
October 14, 2018 at 4:00 PM
Pico fuses dance and theatre by moulding his portraits with humour and power…an extraordinary storyteller with a deep capacity for observation.
Hamburger Abendblatt, Germany
Choreographer and performer
Wilson Pico
Lighting design
Manuel Ignacio Pico
Costume design
Natasha Salguero and Taller Guagua de Trapo
Music
Jan Garbarek and Philip Glass
About the artist
Wilson Pico is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and director who is widely considered by national and international critics the founder of contemporary Indigenous dance in Ecuador. Since 1970, he has created an important choreographic canon, with more than 180 works staged, and has presented his solo works throughout the Americas, Europe and Japan.
Wilson Pico will also be offering a professional training workshop during RUTAS (Oct 6 – 8). Click here for more info.
