Elena Cordoba's Expelled from Eden (Expulsadas del Paraíso)

Event information

Spain NOW! presents acclaimed Spanish dancer/choreographer Elena Cordoba's latest piece in London!

​ "The body has three bellies, head, chest and lower belly, and, being the parts contained in the lower belly easier to rot, it seems more convenient to me to begin the history of the human body with its description."

Anatomía Galénico-Moderna (Galenic-Modern Anatomy). Doctor Manuel de Porras en 1718


Expelled from Eden (Expulsadas del Paraíso).

A dance study: the hips of the woman and everything they contain; muscles, tendons, entrails, blood pressure, the openings and the settings of fat.

A fable grew from this study: on the passing of time through the belly; the first space of the body to rot; the most fertile and fetid place of our body.

Our body, like the body of Eve expelled from Paradise, has fallen on the conscience of our time, where there are not two equal movements, where rythm is not eternal and does not control the pulse of life, and where every pleasure has the gravity of something which cannot be repeated, where we must use the orifices that open our body to the world, in order to keep living, keep beating.

And now that our intestines are so heavy as Eve's when she crossed the gates of the Garden of Eden, we dance remembering that this body that we inhabit will some day dissolve.

Artistic team

Dancers: Montse Penela, Camille Hanson and Elena Córdoba

Lighting: Carlos Marquerie

Direction: Elena Córdoba

Music:
Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, by Dimitri Shostakovich
Preludes and Fugues opus 87, by Dimitri Shostakovich

Direction assitant: María José Pire

This work is part of Spain NOW! 2011 - A Season of Arts & Culture of Spain

The production has received an aid to production from Comunidad de Madrid and has been co-produced Citemor 2010 (Portugal).


​VIEW AN EXCERPT OF THE PIECE HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhMCiGO134


Further info:
http://www.spain-now.org.uk

Dates:
Friday 4th November - 7.45pm

Bar opens 6.30pm

Tickets:
Full price: £12 Concessions: £8