Marcos Morau
Waltz
Ballroom music sounds in the distance, obscured in time and trapped in the past, shining creatures emerge from the ashes.
NDCWales Presents
Surge | Gwefr
Production
Length: 30 minutes
Dancers: 8
First performed: 23 March 2023 at Pontio, Bangor
Choreographer: Marcos Morau
Choreographic Assistants: Valentin Goniot and Marina Rodriguez
Music: Valse Triste, Op 44. (Berlin Philharmonic) by Jean Sibelius.
Suspirium by Thom Yorke
Crawler by Holly Herndon.
Pneuma by Caterina Barbieri
Costume Supervisor and Costume Maker: Elizabeth Catherine Chiu,
Costume Maker: Danial Thatcher
Lighting Programmer: Will Lewis
Photo: Albert Pons
Marcos Morau
“utterly compelling”
“striking visuals and visceral physicality”
"dazzling"
The Times
“remarkable unison”
“endlessly inventive”
“it’s rare in dance to feel totally intrigued by what might happen next”
The Observer
“meticulously drilled"
“eye-catching".
“mysterious, other-worldly"
Culture Whisper
Marcos Morau
Trained between Valencia, Barcelona and New York in photography, movement and theatre,
Marcos Morau (Valencia, 1982) builds imaginary worlds and landscapes with a lucid look towards contemporaneity. Named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2023 by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as best choreographer of the year 2023 by the prestigious German magazine Tanz, Marcos Morau continues to grow artistically with an extraordinary career as a choreographer and stage director. Since 2004 he has directed La Veronal, which has become one of the most prominent dance companies on the European scene, and in 2013 received the National Dance Prize awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
La Veronal, praised by international critics and winner of numerous awards, has shown its shows in the best theatres and festivals in more than thirty countries: the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Biennale di Venezia, the Festival d'Avignon, Tanz Im August in Berlin, Festival RomaEuropa, SIDance Festival in Seoul, Sadler's Wells in London or Danse Danse Montreal, among many others.
In addition to his continuous work with La Veronal, Marcos Morau is a guest artist in several
companies and theatres around the world where he develops new creations, always halfway
between performing arts and dance: Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Royal Danish Ballet or the Royal Ballet of Flanders, among many others. Since 2023, he is an associate artist at the Staatsballet Berlin, Nederlands Dans Theater and Triennale Milano.
The future of Morau and La Veronal pursues the search for new formats and languages where opera, dance and physical theatre dialogue closer than ever, seeking new ways of expressing and communicating in our present time, always turbulent and changing.
