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los inconta-dos: un tríptico

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los incontados: un trípticoMapa Teatro

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Info & context 4

Credits 5

Party poppers or machine guns 7

About the artists 11

Friends 12

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info context

date & timeFri 31 May 2019, 8 pmSat 1 June 2019, 8 pmMon 3 June 2019, 8 pmTue 4 June 2019, 8 pm

venueInternationaal Theater Amsterdam, Rabozaal

running time1 hour 6 minutesno interval

language Spanish with English and Dutch surtitles

introduction7.15 pm by Kati Röttger

meet the artistSat 1 Juneafter the performanceWilliam Kentridge with Rolf Abderhalden and Heidi Abderhalden

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credits

directionHeidi Abderhalden and Rolf Abderhalden

performed byHeidi Abderhalden, Agnes Brekke, Andrés Castañeda, Julián Díaz, Jeihhco, Danilo Jiménez, Santiago Sepúlveda, Miche Molina, Lesly Ramírez, Melanie Ramírez, Sofía Rodríguez, Mariana Saavedra, Darío Sinisterra, Sebastián Zúñiga

dramaturgyMapa Teatro

dramaturgical adviceAntonio Orlando Rodriguez, Dario Villamizar, Marta Ruiz

music and sound designJuan Ernesto Díaz

set designPierre Henri Magnin

lighting designJean François Dubois

video editingLuis Antonio Delgado

live video Ximena Vargas, Natalia Duarte

technical directorJean François Dubois

stage managerJose Ignacio Rincón

stage assistance Alexander Rodríguez

set constructionde Vindplaats

propsMarianne Noorlander, Anne Ammerlaan

productionMapa Teatro, José Ignacio Rincón, Ximena Vargas

coproductionIberescena, Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá, Prod.Art.Br.

world premiereApril 2014, Bogotá, Colombia

websiteMapa Teatro

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party poppers or machine guns

The enemy is in every party – a popular saying by the Guapi inhabitants, in the Colombian Pacific. 

by Vincent Kouters

How does three celebrations for the price of one sound? The only catch is that the theme uniting all three is violence. This essen-tially describes the production Los Incontados: un tríptico by the Columbian laboratory of artists Mapa Teatro, who will be per-forming for the first time in the Netherlands at Holland Festival. The performance is a triptych, a condensed version of three previ-ous shows by the group, which includes Los Santos Inocentes (The Holy Innocents’, 2010), Discurso de un hombre decente (‘Discourse of a decent man’, 2012) and Los Incontados (‘The Unaccounted’, 2014). Each play is part of the larger series titled Anatomía de

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la violencia en Colombia (‘Anatomy of violence in Colombia), in which the group depicts allegories of the many ways in which violence assumes a prominent place in Colombian society. The theatre makers also show the extent to which the population has experienced this level of violence as an ever-present element of daily life, and more specifically, in the many celebrations the country observes. These theatre makers are Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden, sister and brother, born to a Swiss father and a Colombian mother. Mapa Teatro is the name of their laboratory of artists, which they formed with their sister Elizabeth Abderhalden in 1984. The collec-tive is currently based in an old house in the heart of the capital Bogotá, and it is one of the most prominent and successful artistic hotspots in the country. Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden often collab-orate with other (performance) artists and directors. They explore the influence of culture, politics, and revolution on Colombian society in their visual theatre work. The violence that has seeped into Colombian society is one of their most recent topics of research. It may relate to the violence that stems from the transnational war on drugs or the many years of civil war that ravaged the country. ‘I consider it our duty to look

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back on the second half of the 20th century in Colombia. You see that society has developed in such a way that all forms of politi-cal violence have become embedded in many expressions of our celebrations and festivities,’ according to Rolf Abderhalden.

Mapa Teatro describes its procedures as ‘ethnofiction’. This neologism, by the French film director Jean Rouch (1917-2004), refers to a type of documentary that focuses on ethnographic or anthropological topics, in which the creators don’t remain neutral and become a fundamental part of what is being shown. The theatrical ethnofiction in Los Incontados: un tríptico deals with Colombian reality by making fiction out of it. In the first part, Los Santos Inocentes, the celebration of the same name is the focus. It takes place on 28 December every year in Guapi, a small town on the Pacific coast of Colombia, where the male population wears grotesque masks, dress as women and go out onto the streets armed with whips, lashing anyone they come across who isn’t dressed up. It is a frenzied festivity that can give unprepared onlookers the sense that they are in a nightmare. 

Part two, Discurso de un hombre decente, takes place in the Colombian jungle, where a drug dealer rehearses a speech on legalisation of drugs, based on notes from Pablo Emilio Escobar’s archives. On 2 December 1993, Escobar was shot dead by a Columbian drug squad in Medellín. They found a speech he had written for the day he would be elected president of Colombia on his corpse. This document, only released by the CIA after almost 18 years, forms the starting point for this part of the trilogy. On stage, we see the drugs baron listening to his favourite band. The music is performed by the man who actually fronted one of

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Escobar’s favourite bands. He not only accompanied ‘the boss’ during Escobar’s weekly speeches in the working-class neigh-bourhoods in Medellín, he also performed at private parties in his extravagant Hacienda Nápoles estate and was a victim of a car bomb at the stadium he was due to perform at. 

Los Incontados is the final part of this trilogy and the opening of this performance. A group of children are gathered around an old-fashioned radio. In the privacy of a sixties living room deco-rated with balloons, they await the announcement of a revolution, the party that will never take place. Mapa Teatro uses an almost cinematic montage for Los Incontados: un tríptico. The ingenious stage design places the three different worlds alongside and behind each other and allows them to slowly blend into each other. These visuals describe a country where there is still a fragile line between a celebration and an outbreak of violence. Is it the sound of celebratory party poppers popping you hear or machine guns?Rolf Abderhalden explains, ‘Colombians have withstood the horrendous crimes that have taken place in this country with all our might. This strength is reflected in our ability to survive and celebrate. By taking advantage of the potentials that our imag-ination offers us, we attempt to transform anger and fear into freedom and joy.’

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about the artists

Mapa Teatro was founded in Paris in 1984 by the Abderhalden siblings. Heidi Abderhalden studied theatre arts in Switzerland and France at the Théâtre du Vide-Poche in Lausanne, the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre and Philippe Gaulier’s School in Paris. She also studied with the renowned theatre teacher Monika Pagneux, who was re-sponsible for the physical training at Peter Brook’s International Centre for Theatre Research. Rolf Abderhalden studied the-atre at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre and set design at the L.E.M. (Laboratory of Movement Study) and also completed an MA in visual arts at the National University of Colombia and a PHD in Ethnoscenology at Paris 8 University. While in Paris the Abderhaldens shared their passion for theatre and the visual arts with fellow students such as Simon McBurney and William Kentridge. 

In 1986, the Abderhaldens returned to Colombia, their native land. Since then Mapa Teatro has become a renowned experimental laboratory for all kinds of artists and art forms. In the 35 years of its existence it has created a highly singular universe in which myth and history, opera, theatre, cabaret, radio and video all flow into each other and where boundaries, whether of a geographic, linguistic or an artistic nature, do not exist. Theatre texts by writers such as Beckett or Heiner Müller have often formed the starting point for their productins but in recent years Mapa Teatro has increasingly zoomed in on the complexity of everyday life in Colombia, basing its work on an item of news or

a myth from the recent history of their country. Their outspoken and distinctive art work recently gained the Abderhaldens the award of a Goethe Medal (2018). Los Incontados: un tríptico is Mapa Teatro’s debut in the Netherlands.

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textVincent Kouters

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