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Awaiting
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(1999)
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Life
is a circus
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Popular
saying.
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¿So
how come we are not laughing all the time?
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Margarita,
9 years old.
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SOMEC-VITARS
Award to the best modern new play in 1999
Awaiting...
is a choreographic setup in four scenes with an intermission,
structured as a diary, presenting an autobiography wherein the
characters appear from childhood, and as teenagers they toy with
desire, they seek, they want to love and are awaiting the cycle
to come to a stop. They survive their actions pursuing the
solution which might show them how to carry on.
Awaiting...
is the opportunity to recount the obsessions we feed upon, it is
creating a space wherein rules vanish before change, inviting us
to partake of the mask game, the carnival, the circus that
allows us to act without fearing remorse, as if time would stop;
the future will be annulled and will erase with it all
consequences of our actions.
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Choreography:
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Miguel
Mancillas
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Original
Music:
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Isaac
Peña
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Lighting
Design:
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René
Mendoza
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Dancers:
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Luisa
Castro
Isaac
Chau
Miguel
Mancillas
Elsa
Verdugo
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Technical
Execution:
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Ivonne
Ortiz
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Wardrobe
Design:
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Pedro
Contreras, Miguel Mancillas
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Assistant
during rehearsals:
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Alba
Clara Félix, Ángeles Martínez
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Theater
Advisors:
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Adria
Peña
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Training:
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Zyfgryd
Rzysko and Miguel Mancillas
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Additional
Training:
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Iván
Sandoval (State Gymnastics Center)
and Wilson Sport Gymnasium, Phone No. 260-6822
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Production:
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Instituto
Sonorense de Cultura,
US-Mexico Cultural Art Foundation,
Antares Danza Contemporánea
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Acknowledgements:
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Marcela
Fernández de Gándara,
Jossie Robles, Mordine & Co.,
Marco Antonio Vázques,
Luz, Sonia and Mimí Juárez
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Newspaper
notes
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"Miguel
Mancillas´ work deserves an outstanding position. It is a
highly projected play which may very well alternate in the
most demanding stages throughout the world, hand in hand with
internationally renowned companies."
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Juan
Hernández
Unomásuno
Augusto
1st. 1999
Mexico
City
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"On
the other hand, Antares has produced a play completely without
objections. Awaiting..., by Miguel Mancillas, is a perfect
play."
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Carlos
Ocampo
REFORMA
July
31st. 1999
Mexico
City
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"Talent,
excellence, technique, expressive vastness, aesthetics and an
efficient, accurate self promotion, are the traits which could
define this group."
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Juan
Manuel Ruelas
El
Independiente
Mayo
2nd. 1999
Hermosillo,
Sonora
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"Awaiting...,
well, it is impressive due to its dramatic contents, colored
here and there by humor; but also due to its quest for
absolute truths, to its eloquent speech and the creative
parallel traced between circus and real life."
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Sergio
Burquez
La
Voz
April
24th. 1999
Mexicali,
B.C.
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