GARGOLA
GÁRGOLA
Length: 12' –current stage–.
*project still in development
Creation: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Info: qabalum@gmail.com
–’’There exists, in human beings, an essential longing for what the animal represents. The idea of creature has accompanied humankind’s desire for transcendence since the beginning of time. We see it in cave paintings, totems, the first deities, idols, the golden calf, gargoyles, chimeras, even in the first graphic representations made by children.
These singular images, the bison in the cave –which keeps the animals in an inaccessible, uterine matrix, safe even from the light– or the gargoyle in the temple, speak to us of a desire to remain, to endure, to connect with nature not only through vital functions, but also through symbols. And they all have something in common: we do not know the name of their creator; they belong to no one but humanity.”
Creation: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Performance: Lucía Burguete & Diego Pazó
Music: VV.AA. –composition by Diego Pazó–.
Pictures: María Muñoz
Vídeo: Nanuk Audiovisual
Distribution/Production assistance: Patty Hinchado
With the support of: Zaragoza Dance Center, Espacio El Túnel.
GÁRGOLA is QABALUM’s latest project, conceived as an exploration of the symbolic relationship between humankind and the animal, the creature, and the essence of biological existence. This project is still under development, without a concrete calendar of work, but already at an advanced stage in terms of creation of movement material. What is presented on the following pages corresponds to the first version of this work, first presented to the public on February 22, 2026, at Espacio El Túnel in Zaragoza.
In GARGOLA, two characters without names or concrete identities search for each other, repel each other, break apart –literally– into pieces, attempting to cross the boundaries that separate them, both from each other and from everything else.
Just as our ancestors invented images and rituals, they try to invoke permanence, to open the door back to the womb of an increasingly distant reality, that which we call nature.
–’’ The characters played by Lucía Burguete and Diego Pazó seem to exist in a perpetual, ever-stretching present: it’s as if history, as we know it, hasn’t been reactivated, because the very idea of human being has been suspended. [...] For now, I must point out that GARGOLA is the best I’ve seen so far from QABALUM in terms of direction, performance, movement quality, and staging...’’Danzateatr, 2026
Todo este ruido
Todo este ruido
Length: 50’ – theaters and venues / 24’ – unconventional spaces
Created by: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Info: qabalum@gmail.com
–“I think that perhaps our life is only a version of many, and that everything, except us, happens once again. Maybe that's enough.
[...]
And my atoms and yours, like the pixels of an image, are not ours, and one day they will separate to give birth to other images, other stories. And you and I, who have come from so far, who have crossed the cosmos to end up right here, will dissolve, little by little, into the eternity we are already a part of.’’
Created by: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete.
Performed by: Diego Pazó, Lucía Burguete & Joan Cano –drone–.
Lighting and set design: Fermín Blanco & Diego Pazó.
Technical assistance: Liberam Technologies & Livory Barbez.
Music: Various Artists –composition by Diego Pazó–.
Audiovisual: AVRIGO Studio –Bárbara Fernández, David Mendizábal–, Diego Pazó.
Cover: Laura Gutiérrez.
Original text: Diego Pazó.
Distribution/Production assistance: Patty Hinchado
Project supported by the Artem PRO 2025 grant from the Government of Navarre
With the support of: DNA 2024 – Government of Navarre, Zaragoza Dance Center, Pies Para Qué Los Quiero Festival, Cuerpo Romo Festival, Sortutakoak – Dantzagunea, Dantzalabea – Barakaldo Theatre, San Jorge University, Harrobi Antsoaingo Gaztelekua & CRJ Baragazte.
Thanks to: Akira Yoshida, Sandra Muñiz, Martxel Rodríguez, Jon López.
In TODO ESTE RUIDO two bodies jump from image to image as in a succession of frames. They intertwine, overlap, and orbit, creating images of great poetic power, moving between shadow and light, between physical space and the images on the screen, accompanied by a drone, a virtual being that is sometimes a pet and other an inert satellite or the personification of the eternal life that technology promises us. In an empty space, a tabula rasa where anything can happen, the movement of both bodies –as in the celestial vault– traces the history of time.
Created for two performers and a drone, the piece draws on the powerful fragmentary and photographic narratives of comics, the field of CGI, the imagery of sci-fi, and special effects, to speak about the myths of the creation of the world and the contemporary account of genesis, about our symbolic position in space and time, about how we got here, and about what is to come.
TODO ESTE RUIDO is a hymn to the light that crosses the cosmos to give us form.
’’Diego Pazó displays a formidable strength in the dancer’s constant lifts; always with a fluid phrasing, without any noticeable effort, and inventing genuinely innovative steps. The connection between them transcends mere overlapping. Lucía embraces her partner with absolute trust. Every movement is planned and executed with millimetric precision. [...] The virtuosity that undoubtedly underlies some steps, is at the service of beauty, of the movement itself; it doesn’t seek to show off. It is fertile in truly beautiful poses and finishes. The drone, almost always overhead, sometimes dictates the movement; but it is also a subject to be explored. If symmetry is the goal, it is achieved impeccably: for example, the final section executed on the floor is of great precision and originality. The intertwining of the two bodies is innovative; there are few repetitions, and they are necessary to appreciate the varied registers. [...] In short, an exceptional contemporary dance duo that manages to weave a story with fluidity and without mutual intrusion between the physical energy and the technical and visual elements.’’ Teobaldos, Noticias de Navarra, 2025
’’Diego Pazó and Lucía Burguete burst onto the stage with a choreography in which their bodies, like particles, collide, approach, grasp, and release in a fascinating dance monitored by a drone. At times, the delicacy of their gestures is reminiscent of a motion capture test, of a pair of figures closer to digital imagery than to the heartbeat of a flesh-and-blood body that throbs and crawls along the cobblestones of the stage. [...] Qabalum invites us to dance with some of the tropes of science fiction, to appropriate these imaginaries of the future, under the gaze of a drone that misses no detail, a symptom of a hyper-monitored society in which no gesture goes unnoticed. And that, precisely, is something that is evident in the time this duo takes to present their intentions, in the natural way with which they take over the space, and in how they are able to construct figures, images, words in motion.’’ Óscar Brox, Redescénica, 2025
’’Pay close attention to TODO ESTE RUIDO by Qabalum. Because of the technical brilliance with which they move and how they can connect with the interests of the younger public. They set the bar very high.’’ Jordi Sorá, Escenas de la Memoria, 2024
’’It is worth highlighting the quality of movement achieved by the company, which, based on contemporary dance techniques, finds its own register that manages to transmit the sensation of lightness and fragmentation [...] that planetary and galactic perspective of humanity, that, coming from the dust of the stars, we will probably end up turning back into dust, whether from stars or ashes depends on the pessimism of each one.’’ Júlia Vernet, Núvol, 2024
’’In Tàrrega there are people who dance fireworks [...] Diego Pazó and Lucía Burguete move in a dance of the future, which discovers mechanical movements and innovative aesthetics that hypnotize them, and that hypnotize the spectators.’’Magí Camps, La Vanguardia, 2024
’’TODO ESTE RUIDO is a good choreographic piece, with an abstract plot line that allows each spectator to build a plot and that shows how the devices have a soul within a show.’’ Jordi Bordes, Recomana.cat, 2024
La medida que nos ha de dividir
La medida que nos ha de dividir
Duration: 17’
Created by: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Info: qabalum@gmail.com
’It takes two places to make a border.
This space full of lines
parallel to the time that crosses us
and that is neither true nor unique nor ours.
No, we will no longer be a recipient of anything,
neither the size that shall divide us.
And despite that
how could we even guess
that this was the future?’’
Created by: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Performed by: Diego Pazó & Lucía Burguete
Cover: Laura Gutiérrez
Lighting and Set Design: David Alcorta & Fermín Blanco
Original Music: Luisillo Kalandraka
Distribution/Production Assistance: Patty Hinchado
With the support of: DNA 2021 - Government of Navarre, Dantzan Bilaka, National Dance Company Residencies, Harrobi Antsoaingo Gaztelekua.
In LA MEDIDA QUE NOS HA DE DIVIDIR two bodies lay, measure, intertwine, caress, pierce each other creating a choreographic script about affection, passing of the time and human impulses. A duet about the will of being together, of sharing a life in common and how to sustain it not knowing what the future will hold behind its horizon.
The project received the support of the DNA 2021 Program, of Dantzan Bilaka 2022 and was granted another by the Residences of the National Dance Company 2022. The piece has also received the Focus Days Award at the 10 Sentidos International Contest 2022, the 1st Prize at the VIII DanzaXtrema Choreographic Contest, was selected in the 2022 Red A Cielo Abierto catalogue in Danza a Escena Catalogue for open spaces shows in 2024.
“The tension that the two performers generate with their bodies resides in the flexible interlacing, in the traction of arms and legs, in the jumps and positions on the ground and on the back, in the alignments of the jumps, in the dynamic grips performed in the air, in the mouth caught by the hands. Measuring each other in the passage of time, they stop and distinguish themselves, to be together again.” Giuseppe Distefano, Exibart, 2024
“This young company has managed to burst onto the scene with force [...] and, without a doubt, LA MEDIDA QUE NOS HA DE DIVIDIR has a quality as great as the performance and composition skills of those who integrate Qabalum. I will never get tired of repeating the idea that professionals like Diego Pazó and Lucía Burguete are the ones we should place our hopes on to bring about a generational change in contemporary dance in this country.’’ Luis Alberto Sosa, Achtung Magazine, 2022
’’This couple from Navarre has a very interesting body of work and we will have to keep a close eye on them. They have wonderful control over lifts and partner acrobatics and blend beautifully when they dance in unison.’’ Santiago de la Fuente, Redescénica, 2021
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