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La Congregación Teatro
Artist Snapshots 3 – 03.29.2023
8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm GMT
La Congregación Teatro is an independent theatre company founded in 2007 by Johan Velandia, with the goal of dedicating itself to the creation, production and management of stage shows and informal training in acting, dramaturgy and clown.
It is a research space for artists from different disciplines (theatre, dance, music, audiovisual) on topics that reveal the complexity of the human soul in direct relation to the social and political terrain of our historical moment, building an aesthetic vocabulary of its own, dynamic, changing and multi-significant.
Artist Snapshot:
EL NIÑO Y LA TORMENTA
Bogotá, 1992. The government of César Gaviria decrees rationing measures due to the energy crisis the country is facing, due to the reduction in water reserves, aggravated by the El Niño phenomenon. Colombian households are facing power cuts, the time change and a long period of darkness. In this city in darkness, without water, without energy, a mother cries the thousand storms that are needed to recover the light of an entire country.
EL NIÑO Y LA TORMENTA is the story of a mother and a rat who would do anything and more for the welfare of their young. In the room of an old tenement, south of the city, a fantastic universe is recreated: a child and a mother searching for invisibility, rats on hunger strike, a new escape, a birthday without candles and a mother looking for food while drowning in the streets of a thirsty city.