Human Landscapes

By: Coral Lopez

"In this work that the Alicia Soto-Hojarasca Company has given us on her 30th birthday, not a single emotion, quality, vice or defect of the human being is missing. Pieces of the soul with a common thread, a gigantic fabric that has been carefully chosen by its stage and costume designer: Elisa Sanz, already consolidated in the art of fulfilling and maintaining dreams and realities. This immense curtain sometimes shelters and shelters, other times it is scars of life that we drag with hidden feelings or proclaimed to the four winds. In each scene, desire, hope, disappointment, violence are shown and although Alicia and the dramaturgy team - with Dina Figueiredo, Julio Martín Da Fonseca and Alicia herself - have put a lot of effort into treating the scenes in a very poetic way, it is sometimes difficult to keep your eyes on the dancers without getting disturbed and cringing during the violent scenes, where the dark side of the human being is starkly shown. Life as a journey, an allegory of the sails with the fabrics, crossing the river Styx, when Charon or the sea awaits us, when a better life or death awaits us. The inevitable death sometimes in life due to loneliness, other times due to hopelessness. Libido, passion, pain, violence, harassment, love, sex… A cyclone of emotions and pain that is not revealed, a silent cry and a constant reference to water, to rain, reminds us that we are water... and that we are immersed in a sea of emotions and feelings. We pursue the unattainable, and where the dancers support each other to achieve their desires. All this and much more is Human Landscapes.