"Water leaves its mark on every landscape, but it is still impossible to understand its movements and currents, they are unpredictable. Water is impenetrable like human character."
Klaus Lanz, The Book of the Water.

Senza Tempo's journey through Water has been created over time; it uses the evolution of the language of theatre and the company's way of creating, and it is depicted by three pieces of theatre-dance, which together make up a Trilogy.

They are three pieces which may be performed separately or together, three pieces with different themes and inspirations, each one looking at life in a particular way, but all woven together with a common thread - water.

Water is present as a stage element but also as a concept, a symbol, the stuff of dreams.

 

(1994)
Water is a source.

(1998)
A circle of water where paths both begin and end.

(2000)
The water is underground. Hidden and scarce.



The press said...

These three pieces burst with the discipline of hard work, excellent technique, creativity and sensitivity, united by a common thread: the metaphor of water
El Mundo (Valladolid) 28th May 2000


(1994)


Las mujeres y cuerdas
De la guitarra,
Es menester talento
Para templarlas

Flojas no suenan,
Y suelen saltar muchas
Si las aprietan

(Canción popular siglo XVII)




Short piece of theatre - dance to the open air performed in squares, gardens, harbours Piece for three women and one man.
Duration 25'
 

Capricho is a sensual, ironic and surreal mediterranean story conceived on a roof in Barcelona's gothic quarter in a warm summer of drought. The life on the rooftops and the ancient, every day rites of the water-bearing women. Water is in it a source, a source of pleasure and rivalry. The music is mediterranean (Egyptian, Italian and Spanish).

The press said...

the rhythm is perfect, the choreography irreproachable, the music all-enveloping,… the audience was captivated.
Le journal dans la rue (Chalon sur Saône) 25th July 1998

A performance in which dance plays a leading role and which aims to excite the audience through emotion.
La Mañana (Lleida) 8th Octuber 1997

ARTISTIC TEAM

Idea and Direction: Inés Boza / Carles Mallol
Performers: Inés Boza, Carles Mallol, Monica Muntaner, Mercedes Recacha
Music: Copta, Hungarian, Traditional Sicilian, F. Sor
Costumes: Antonia Marques
Lighting/ Sound Technician: Eduard Inglés
Management: Nathalie Martinatti

Premiere 2nd July 1994, Parc Güell of Barcelona, Festival Grec 1994

Photos Celia Ayneto

Capricho is a production of SENZA TEMPO - 1994




(1998)








El mediterráneo no existe...
se trata solo de un mar interior que
uno debe navegar cada día. Sus aguas tan limpias son el fondo azul de la memoria. (Manuel Vicent) 		 


This piece of Theatre-Dance can be performed inside or outdoors.
Piece for three women and two men. Duration 60'

The story of a journey to nowhere, an experience of transformation.
It is built on the astonishing front of frontiers, on the fascination and fear by the different.

A circle of water is the space where different ways begin or end, a meeting-point for celebrations, a focus for sensual, age-old rituals. And also a journey with ghosts and childhood games through a circle of calm water. Lazurd let it go by music's spirit of wandering people like Gypsies or Jews.

The press said...

This work shows how the boundaries between dance and theatre can be convincingly blurred (...) But providing a definition is not what matters here, rather it is a matter of feeling what these artists are offering. A journey. (…) Everything from the original idea to the directing, via the acting, takes us on a journey whose final destination is none other than Art itself..
Carlos Gil, Gara (Bilbao), 14th February 2000

The excellent choreography is executed against a sharp selection of musical themes, and set within an ingenious and highly imaginative stage decor.
Roger Sales, El Pais (Madrid) 5th June 1999

The audience broke out in spontaneous applause,… a work with moments of enormous beauty and irony.
El País ( Barcelona) 14th September 1998

Let yourself get carried away by the music, the performance, and the enormous ability this group has to entertain. One's attention doesn't waver for a second, being totally enthralled by the beauty of the images and the ever increasing tempo.
Andres Molinari, Ideal (Granada) 3rd November 1998

A beautiful conceived and executive piece, this, full of comic whimsy and poetic drama.
Mary Brennan, The Herald (Glasgow) 13th May 1998

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ARTISTIC TEAM

Idea and Direction: Inés Boza / Carles Mallol
Direction Assistant:Catalina Vilana
Performers: Inés Boza, Carles Mallol, Mónica Muntaner, Mercedes Recacha,
Eduard Teixidor.
Scenic space: Carlos Mallol / María de la Cámara
Costumes: Josep Abril / Ester Mir
Lighting: Eduard Inglés
Editing of soundtrack: Alex Polls
Maquinist operator: Sylvia Kuchinow
Production: Mercedes Julià
International consultant: Agnés Blot
Management: Nathalie Martinatti

Premiere 8th May 1998, Festival StreetsAhead of Manchester

Photos: Matt Glass

Lazurd is a coproduction of SENZA TEMPO with Fira de Teatre i Dansa de Tàrrega, Manchester International Arts and Expo'98 of Lisboa (BP), With the collaboration of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Ajuntament de Mollet del Vallés.



(2000)





"Everybody harbours an unquenchable thirst and an open wound.
This is the dark heart of human movement, where his strong and inner heart-beat is to be found. All dry earth hides within is depth the flow of water."
(J. De Asbaje)
  

This piece can be performed inside or outdoors.
Piece for one woman and two men. Duration 55'

Zahoríes is the third piece of the Trilogy of Water.

The journey begun in Lazurd continues. The characters have left the circle of water to go on their way. A different landscape is to be found; a dry, desolate wasteland; where they will have to search for water. Their search will take them deep into a world somewhere between reality and dreams. The process of desertization which inspired Zahoríes is that of the dry, barren Iberian regions; that of the concrete desert in which we live, and that of human relationships.
Our Zahoríes (water diviners) are searching for the subterranean waters of the human character; love, memory and dreams. These waters are there, flowing but hidden, while we are dying of thirst. They are joined by the wind and the sounds of the desert, the music of Spanish rituals and African voices.

The press said...

Senza Tempo bring us an interesting reflection on life, our individual internal strengths and our relationships with each other. (…)A beautiful, infinitely open, stage space with that projection onto the naked wall, and the desert-like floor sown with wild life.
El Mundo (Valladolid), 28th May 2000

This story, told by Senza Tempo, is supported by, sometimes sensual, Mediterranean music, and by beautiful, suggestive images containing an expressive strength.
José G. L. Antuñano, ABC (Valladolid) 28th May 2000

It's an elusive and dreamlike show that is by turn, mysterious, humorous, abandoned and sexy.
Manchester Evening News, 5th May 2000

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ARTISTIC TEAM

Idea y direction: Inés Boza / Carles Mallol
Performers: Inés Boza, Carles Mallol, Eduard Teixidor
Direction assistant: Montserrat Colomé
Scenic space: Manel Trías
Costumes: Miriam Compte / Josep Abril
Lighting: Eduard Inglés
Sound and maquinist operator: Eduard Escoda
Editing soundtrack: Juan Antonio Gutierrez
Choreography collaboration: Charlotte Vincent
Pre-Production: Beatriu Daniel
Production: Mónica Silla
Management: Nathalie Martinatti

Premiere 4th May 2000, Festival StreetsAhead, Manchester .

Photos: Christian Riedeberger

Zahories is a production of SENZA TEMPO and Mercat de les Flors. Coproducers are Fira de Tàrrega and Streets Ahead Festival of Manchester. Collaborators are Ajuntament de Lleida and Ajuntament de Mollet del Vallés.


SENZA TEMPO is supported by ICUB- Ajuntament de Barcelona, Departament de Cultura - Generalitat de Catalunya, INAEM- Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Tour collaborator COPEC.