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The Mountain

Agrupación Señor Serrano | Spain

Start Date: 30-06-2022 - 20:15 (19:15 CET)
End Date: 30-06-2022 - 21:30 (20:30 CET)Start Date: 01-07-2022 - 20:15 (19:15 CET)
End Date: 01-07-2022 - 21:30 (20:30 CET)

Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
30 June and 1 July, 20:15

The Mountain
by Agrupación Señor Serrano

"We wanted people to understand that they shouldn't take any opinion pre-digested, and they shouldn't swallow everything that came through the tap, whether it was radio or Facebook”
Orson Welles on his radio broadcast The war of the worlds (1938)

There is a widely shared image that runs through the history of ideas: climbing a mountain, overcoming all the difficulties to reach its summit and once there, being able to see the world "as it is". See the truth and not just shadows or reflections. It is a beautiful image indeed. But is it really so? Often, looking from the top down you can see nothing but clouds and fog covering everything or a landscape that changes depending on the time of day or the weather. What is that world like then? How is that truth? Is there the truth? Is it just a peak that must be crowned and that’s it, or rather a cold and inhospitable path that must be continually climbed?

The Mountain blends the first expedition to Mount Everest, which success is still today uncertain; Orson Welles sowing panic with his radio show The War of the Worlds; badminton players playing baseball; a fake news website; a drone scrutinizing the audience; lots of snow; mobile screens; fragmented images; and Vladimir Putin discoursing delighted on truth and trust.

Duration: 70'
Language: English
Surtitles: English, Greek

You can watch the discussion with the artistic team HERE.

The Mountain
by Agrupación Señor Serrano

Dramaturgy and direction: Àlex Serrano, Pau Palacios, Ferran Dordal
Stage design and scale models: Lola Belles, Àlex Serrano
Costume design: Lola Belles
Video programming: David Muñiz
Video creation: Jordi Soler Quintana
Music: Nico Roig
Light design: Cube.bz
Digital mask: Román Torre
Stage design assistant: Mariona Signes
Technical director: David Muñiz
Production management: Paula Sáenz de Viteri
Production director: Barbara Bloin
Management: Art Republic.

On stage: Anna Pérez Moya, Marc Costa, Pau Palacios, David Muñiz

Voice: Amelia Larkins

Agrupación Señor Serrano

Founded by Àlex Serrano in Barcelona in 2006, Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theatre company that creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary times. The company uses the richness of innovative and vintage tools to extend the boundaries of its theater. Based on creative collaborations, Señor Serrano’s productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and scale models to stage stories about discordant aspects of today’s human experience. The company productions premiere and tour mostly internationally.

Agrupación Señor Serrano gestates and premieres original intermedia productions using the company’s three-stage creative model: Devising of Contents, Dispositive Conception, and Editing and Rehearsal. Creators involved in each work share their primary creative skill sets with one another over the course of the process. This exchanging of abilities empowers each member of the group and consequently the company’s project.

The company has received support and recognition from several institutions like GREC Festival de Barcelona, Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat, Centre d’Arts Escèniques de Terrassa, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication or Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts et Sciences – Meylan among others. Its creative processes include international residency centers like La Chartreuse – Centre National des Écritures du Spectacle, La Fabrique de Théâtre or Monty Kultuurfaktorij.

At present, Agrupación Señor Serrano is composed by Àlex Serrano (artistic director), Pau Palacios (content manager) and Barbara Bloin (production manager). Besides them, for each production the company has counted on the essential collaboration of a cross-disciplinary and variable creative team. Over the years, many creators have joined the company’s projects, leaving a durable mark: Diego Anido, Ferran Dordal, Jordi Soler, Alberto Barberá, Roger Costa Vendrell, Nuria Manzano, Alexandra Laudo, Jofre Carabén, Martí Sánchez-Fibla, Claudia Solano Watson, Gabriel Parés, Maria de la Cámara, Isabel Franco, Ester Forment, Susana Gómez or Josep Maria Marimon among many others.

The company has been awarded with the Silver Lion 2015 from the Venice Biennale.

Àlex Serrano Tarragó
Àlex Serrano Tarragó (Barcelona, 1974) has a degree in Industrial Design, a master in Interactive Communication and a degree in Stage Direction. For years he worked in different advertising, audiovisual and multimedia companies. In 2002 he founded Areatangent, a platform for contemporary scenic creation based in Raval, Barcelona. In 2006 he founded the Agrupación Señor Serrano.

Pau Palacios Pozuelo
Pau Palacios Pozuelo (Barcelona, 1977) began studying Political Science at a university, but ended up graduating in Sociology in another. After finishing his studies he worked as executive producer and road manager at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona until 2005. That same year he moved to Lisbon, where he flirted with video-art. Since 2006, he is a dramatist and a performer of Agrupación Señor Serrano. He currently lives in the Alps, in the Italian Tyrol. He is the author of the novel Furioso reloj (Editorial Tria, 2012).

Barbara Bloin
Barbara Bloin (Auxerre, 1981) has a Masters degree in Performing Arts with a theatrical mention from the University of Besançon (2005) and another in Performing Arts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008). In 2003 she moved to Barcelona to pursue a doctorate in Performing Arts, which she abandoned in an inspired moment. In September 2005 she entered the Institut del Teatre in the category of "Text Interpretation", but in 2007, her life changed when she became a
member of Agrupación Señor Serrano.

David Muñiz Rigattieri
David Muñiz Rigattieri (Barcelona, 1983) has a dregree in Higher Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and specialized in live sound (MicroFusa) and stage lighting (Show Technology Workshop). He has been Technical Head of the Maldà Cinema and the Sarrià Theater, and resident technician at La Seca Espai Brossa. He is the technical chief of Agrupación Señor Serrano since September 2017.

Paula Sáenz de Viteri
Paula Sáenz de Viteri (Eskoriatza, 1984) has a degree in audiovisual communication
from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a specialty in film theory from the University of California Berkeley and a master's degree in film theory and analysis from UPF. She has worked as a production assistant at the San Sebastian Film Festival and has organized film series and concerts. She also worked doing event production. She joined Agrupación Señor Serrano in September 2017.