Heart Wash

Mar Gomez & Xavier Martinez

Spain

Artistic Director: Mar Gómez

Director of Choreography: Xavier Martínez

Artists: Mar Gómez and Xavier Martínez

Set Designer: Joan Jorba

Costume Designer: Mariel Soria

Sound Design: Mar Gómez and Xavier Martínez

Photography: Xavier Bertral, Adam Colyer, and Santi García

Vídeo: Jordi Orobitg

Production: Giulia Zavaglia

International Distribution: Cintya Amez

Based on the neorealism of Italian films of the 50s, the piece tells a love story between three main characters: a man, a woman… and a washing machine!

Movement, gesture, and a sense of humor will be the basic ingredients used to narrate the story of a man who makes a stop on his way through life, and of a woman who stops at nothing. Two people with opposite personalities and disparate aims put each other unintentionally to the test in order to cope with the twists and turns of destiny, putting to use what life has taught them, or perhaps, what life has not taught them. A very routine task, such as washing clothes, will be put into practice in an extraordinary situation stemming from a providential encounter.

With the support of The Cervantes Institute in Tel-Aviv and the Embassy of Spain in Israel

Xavi Martínez
Spain
Martínez graduated in classical dance from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (1991-1997) and studied HBO dance at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague (1998). In 1999, after dancing with several Catalan contemporary dance companies (Avelina Argüelles, Danat Dansa, Trànsit, etc.), he joined "Cia. Mar Gómez". Since then, he has been a choreographic director and performer in all the company's shows, presenting hundreds of performances nationally and internationally. At the same time, between 2002 and 2008, he regularly collaborated on various projects directed by the British artist Lindsey Kemp, working as a performer, choreographer, and/or assistant director in the staging of operas in Spain and Italy, sharing the stage with Lindsey Kemp himself in the director's creations.
Mar Gómez
Spain
Gómez is the director and founder of "Cia. Mar Gómez" and a student of fine arts and classical and contemporary dance. She founded her company in 1992 after working as a dancer in various companies (Cía Peatones, Madrid; Cia Didier Theron, Montpelier; Cia Dominique Bauet, Montpellier; Cia Avelina Argüelles, Barcelona), and after one of her creations was awarded the 1st Prize at Madrid's "Certamen Coreográfico" in 1991 and Barcelona's Ricard Moragas Contest in 1992. Gómez's work is located in the field of dance theater. Her work is known for including narrativity, meticulous construction of the characters through physical theater and choreographic work, an intense physicality, and her personal use of a sense of humor in each and every one of her pieces.

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