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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.

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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.

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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.

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