Teatro Amazonas

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Why is the largest rain forest in the world, with its virgin nature and variety of languages and peoples so much sought after by explorers, colonists and foreign investors ? Teatro Amazonas is the third part of a documentary trilogy about new forms of colonialism and barbarism in Latin America, and their influence on populations and contemporary culture. This time Laida Azkona and Txalo Toloza zoom in on two architectural monuments of the Brazilian Amazone : the Teatro Amazonas (end 19^th century), one of the largest opera theatres in Brazil and the Amazon Arena, the largest football stadium in the region, which was inaugurated for the WC football in 2014.

By means of both monuments Teatro Amazona tells a turbulent recent history : the rise and fall of the industrial development, the barbarity against the indigenous population, the megalomania of developers in the area. This documentary play gives them a crushing answer by means of performance, video and choreography. As a portrait of the Amazone in the midst of deforestation and forest fires, it believes that everyone that tries to control it will be put in his proper place sooner or later.

Halfway between Barcelona, Pamplona and the Atacama desert, Laida Azkona and Txalo Toloza create provoking performance art with an activist heart. Txalo Toloza is a video artist, performer and set designer. Laida Azkona is a dancer and a choreographer. This tandem also worked together with Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, a company that was a guest at NEXT 2019.