DEGRADED

"Degradé" is the second chapter of the "Nyia Triptych" (gold), a series of new circus works that take a trip to the internal universe called "Colombia" inhabited by creative artists. The trilogy, made up of "Fihizhká", "Degradé" and "Black Emerald" takes place in a timeline that begins in the year 1,500 before the conquest of America and progresses to 2,300 of its speculations; With this, we want to remember, feel and draw a metaphorical imaginary mutant of Colombia felt by the collective heart of its people.

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"Degradé", referring to the years 1,800 to 2,000, is a work of a new circus, dance, physical theater and popular music that, through a progression of colors and clothing in great quantity, makes a poetic, tragic and joyous journey through memories impregnated from Colombia; town built by the miscegenation of skins, rhythms and cultures and that in its heart has been treasuring a multidimensional universe of symbols, images and folk icons that "Degradé" draws with a dreamlike and acrobatic circus style.

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The artists unweave their personal stories, to spin others, colored by the colors, images, emotions and symbols of the collective Unconscious of their Colombian native land. And so, "Degradé" is made up of different fragments that are spun through the evolution of iconic characters that are constructed in the movement of fabrics and clothing in space and time. Just as the colors change from light to dark inside the work, it goes through places that go from the mystical, bucolic and romantic to the erotic, tragic, violent and carnival. The universe of "Degradé" is being destroyed, degrading as we go deeper into the darkest of our memories.

The game with fabrics is a metaphor for the multiplicity of skins that make up the internal and cultural universe of artists, mutating and interweaving, as well as what is decanted behind the skins: the true essence, the timeless, the a- spatial, the invariable.