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2015 » Cuba » Student Section
| Curator: | Geanny García Delgado |
| Designer / Architect of exhibition: | Geanny García Delgado |
Zona de riesgo / Risk Zone
The Cuban students’ exhibition shows scenography and performance class work conceived for out-of-theatre spaces. It “shares space” and concept with the Cuban national exhibition, trying to outline new promising ways for the national Cuban scene.
The capacity the pursue and to be subjected to risky situations defines young people.
Cyclical risk denying previous generations, the “parent’s death” is another aspect of youth also expressed at the University, in general: nonconformity with established things, with the everyday, with institutional knowledge, looking for the satisfaction of individual and generational interests. With the same power students express themselves at an arts university.
We have only one center on its kind, in Havana – ISA, Universidad de las Artes / ISA, University of Arts, with two other teams in two other provinces. Existing since 1995 to form scenographers in a regular and continuous process. However, since a few years ago, a new matter for concern has been projected among scenography students, related to non-conformity with most part of contemporary Cuban theatre, just like an identification with the latest ways of conceiving performances made in and away from the island. This increasing process of rejection-identification is mainly related to space and the communication possibilities in the conventional theatre spaces in the country.
The Cuban exhibition at PQ'15 Students Section, and the Cuban exhibition in the Section of Countries and Regions “share space” and concept to show examples from a theatre conceived “outside” theatre.
New dialogues, new politics in relation to the spectator, and new narratives are the main contributions to these proposals. Fresh air for a discipline that constantly fights with material insufficiency, lack of equipement and technological specialization. A theatre that shapes itself in the university’s classrooms and projects itself on the future national scene. Another young expression about breaking the physical limits of theatre space, the school’s outlines and the island’s borders.