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conception Gaston Core

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Timetable

20:30

Running time

50'

Place

Espai Lliure

Language

In Catalan and Spanish

Price

Pay what you want/can per ticket: €12, €15 or €17 / With discount, €8,5

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Hearing assistance via mobile phone

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Description

The director and choreographer Gaston Core proposes an appropriation of The Iliad with a group of MCs who rap and dance from the reading of the classic Homer, which with the Odissea is one of the fundamental stories of Western culture.

They say that the classics are those books that one knows even if one has never read. But fewer and fewer people have references to the Iliad. Not even Brad Pitt is able to fix this work in the collective imagination of the new generations. And although it is a text that inspired the Arts of all times and set a model of society based on war, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to be interested in reading it. I grow up that reading a classic nowadays is an act of rebellion, a way of deceiving the machine. Mònica Miró often says that The Iliad is life. It is impossible to explain the meaning of this reflection. We must read the work, overcome the language, cultural and moral barriers that separate us from the people who read and studied the work to understand what Mònica means by that. My proposal is that the best way to re-present this life and bring it closer to encourage reading this classic is to resort to hip-hop culture.

I think there is a clear analogy between the Aedos and the MCs. They knew how to keep the stories that Homer later collected in the text. MCs, like the Aedos, talk about the world in which I live, sing their stories, and also sing to their heroes and gods. Both sing in verse, with structures that shape the thought so that it reaches the other better. 'Winged words' calls these verses Homer. But it is not a question of 'appeasing' the Iliad, of placing it in a quotidian context, as King Lear places in the offices of a multinational; I want to think of it from our own canons, present it and sing it with words, breathing, the rhythm of a musical style that is familiar and universal as rap. And place it in a no time and a no space which is the eternal space of battle, the individual’s battle before the other and before himself.

For in short The Iliad is the story of Achilles, an individual who first and foremost confronts himself and the dichotomy between duty and will, between hate and love, between peace and war.

This proposal was presented in a first version at the Kosmopolis 2023 festival.