The National Dance Company celebrates 8m with the work ‘We say truths that look like lies’ in the Prado Museum

The National Dance Company will celebrate the 8M participating in the next edition of the Festival they They believe with the absolute premiere of ‘We say truths that look like lies’, the first choreography of the director of CND, Muriel Romero, which will be represented in the Muse Room of the National Museum of the Prado.

It is a proposal conceived to be represented in museum spaces, which combines electroacoustic dance and music composed of Pablo Palacio, which will be represented in two passes, at 12 noon at 1:30 p.m. on March 8, with free admission for visitors to the museum and reduced capacity (access by order of arrival), as detailed in a statement the Ministry of Culture.

“The work explores the original sense of the goddesses and the feminine nature of creation. The art of the muses in ancient Greece, (Musiké), designated both the art of sound and the movement. The work also establishes a parallel between the relationship of the sculptor with the matter and that of the choreography with the body of the dancer. The title of the work comes from some verses sung by the Muses of the Helicon of Hesiod’s theogony, “said Romero, who has paraphrased Goethe, who said that architecture is petrified music.” We could affirm that the sculpture is petrified dance, “according to Romero.

In total, 24 dancers will perform from the CND cast divided into two groups: the sculpture and sculpture or restaurateurs, with a spiny baby costume and Dior makeup performed by Junior Cedeño. The artistic proposal is complete the scenic design of Maxi Gilbert.

The title of the work comes from some verses sung by the Muses del Helicón de la Teogonia de Hesiod: “We know how to say lies with truth appearance “. In this case the order of the phrase is invested: “We say truths that look like lies.”