Jardinario
From antiquity to the present day, gardens have been conceived as sites of dialectical encounter between nature and artifice, or as small artificial paradises; as thresholds between the private and the public, as terrain for the emergence of the mysterious and the forbidden, as settings for athletic contests and for musical and theatrical performances; even as representations in themselves, symbols in their own right, insofar as they are deceptive simulacra of nature. All of these lofty ideas collide head-on with silliness, arbitrariness, and absurdity in the hands of the troupe of saltimbanques who, in the open-air summer space of PROA21, stage the comic installation titled Jardinario.
Credits
Concept and Direction
Constanza Feldman
Original Music and Performance
Pablo Viotti
Assistant Director
Lourdes Elías
Performers
Martín Bertani, Constanza Feldman, Juan Jimenez, Julia Morgado, Felipe Villanueva, Pablo Viotti, Lourdes Elías
Costumes and Props
Melina Benítez / Ginger Ropa Vintage
Tutor
Rafael Spregelburd
Acknowledgments
Agustin Mendilaharzu, Luisa Mendilaharzu, Mariano Llinás, Teatro Bravard, Gauchito Gil, PROA21 team