MADERA

Creators:

Amanda Treiber
Amanda Treiber + Company Artistic Director, Choreographer Dancer

in collaboration with

Manuel Figueroa-Bolvarán
Double Bassist, Conductor

Inspiration:

MADERA uses musical and dance improvisation to explore themes of environment, industrialization, destruction, and regeneration. You’ll be transported to the wide, open, and desolate Atacama Desert in Northern Chile through the experimental soundscape of the double bass and piano. The piece is an immersive, imaginative journey to the once bustling communities of the saltpeter mines and to the destruction of these communities as the demand for the mineral diminishes. The ghost towns that are now left behind remain a scar on the land. The process of regeneration is a long and painful one.

"The haunting journey uses atypical piano accompaniment, along with variations of the double bass. ...The desolate, stark quality of the music juxtaposed with the humanity of the dancing. Treiber, along with Lima, simply demonstrate the resiliency of people, and the care we have for each other even in times of metaphorical grayness. The work had a meditative quality to it that transported the audience to this world of musical loops and electronics, and of tender moments of flesh."