Lucia Joyce
Lucia Joyce - A small drama in motion
Written by Itziar Pascual
Direction and dramaturgy Cristina D. Silveira
SYNOPSIS
St. Andrew Hospital in Northampton (United Kingdom), 12 December 1982. Lucia, a 75-year-old patient, needs to write a letter. Today, on the eve of her saint's day, Lucia will put everything she has left unsaid in order. ‘I need to say goodbye, but I don't know to whom,’ she says to herself. Lucia will thus be able to review her past. She will recall moments spent with her great love, Samuel Beckett; with her psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung; and with her painting teacher, Alexander Calder. But above all, this letter, written on the last day of her life, will be an act of love for dance, freedom and life, a defence of the art of feeling, and an appeal to her Babbo: a letter to her father, James Joyce.
The life of Lucia Joyce is a fictionalised secret. Even her leading scholars have had to contend with the deliberate destruction of numerous letters, reports and documents. Lucia was a passionate woman who devoted herself to dance, trained with Raymond Duncan and Margaret Morris, and collaborated on Leger and Man Ray's Ballet Mécanique. She, who lived through the birth of modern dance, also suffered the fierce legacy of the Joyce family, marked by exile, economic instability, talent, mental suffering, contempt for dance and emotional turmoil. Her story speaks of the difficult coexistence with a genius when a woman's role is merely to be a muse, but not an artist.
Genre: Dance-Theatre
Origin: Extremadura, Spain
Duration: 60 minutes
Recommended age: 14+
Artistic Team
Written by Itziar Pascual
Direction and Dramaturgy: Cristina D. Silveira
Performers: Memé Tabares / Jorge Barrantes / Carla González
Audiovisual creation: Cómicos Crónicos
Music composer: Álvaro Rodríguez Barroso
Choreography: Cristina D. Silveira and Carla González
Lighting: David Pérez Hernando
Set design and costumes: La Nave del Duende
Assistant director: Iván Luis
Assistant choreographer: Francisco García
Photography: Jorge Armestar
Graphic design: Marta Barroso
Production manager: David Pérez
The company
34 years as a professional, more than 3,000 performances for over 60,000 spectators in 32 countries, hundreds of favourable reviews and more than 20 national and international awards.
Since its creation, Karlik dance-theatre, under the artistic direction of Cristina D. Silveira and the technical and production direction of David Pérez Hernando, has staged 37 shows for the company and also for other companies and institutions.
Working with dancers, actors and acrobats, Cristina D. Silveira has developed a choreographic language that blends these different disciplines in search of a universal language.
In recent years, the company's objective has been to ensure stability and continuity in this process of research and exploration, an objective that has been reinforced following the inauguration in January 2007 of the Performing Arts Resource Management Centre, ‘La Nave del Duende’, in Casar de Cáceres.