José Vidal & Cía - EMERGER // Santiago de Chile
Emerger emerged from Emergenz, a piece created by renowned Chilean choreographer José Vidal, which was premiered in Hamburg in 2019 as part of a production by Kampnagel.
Festival: SANTIAGO A MIL
More than a hundred dancers - both professionals and members of the public - star in this impressive piece by choreographer José Vidal, highlighting the power groups can have.
Emerger is a performance that brings 21 Chilean and 20 foreign performers from countries like Germany, Turkey, Italy, Syria, France, Denmark and Japan to the stage, as well as a group of musicians and visual, vocal and lighting artists.
Hundreds of citizens will join them - 80 people from each of the three neighborhoods where it will be put on - who only have to sign up in advance to be part of a dance piece that will take over different areas of the city.
Given what’s occurring socially and culturally in Chile at the moment, José Vidal decided to transform part of his initial piece and create Emerger, which, in a change from the original, will take to the streets in a move the company has defined as
“a call for loving resistance; to take shelter in a sense of community, in profound and questioning group work and in the energy of bodies in movement, in order to emotionally transform and have an impact on our society”.
The aim of Emerger is to provide an opportunity for people from different places to bond and connect in a single place: one that encourages the democratization of the arts and creates a single movement, empowering people through creativity and movement.
