The opening of the "Dance Month" suposes the debut of Israel Galvan in a contemporary dance festival in Andalusia and the premiere of the artillery factory.

La inauguración del 'Mes de Danza' supone el debut de Israel Galván en una muestra de danza contemporánea en Andalucía y el estreno de la Fábrica de Artillería como espacio escénico.

Israel Galvan

The next 29 of october at 21pm the show of Israel Galvan marks the beginning of 23 days of contemporary dance. He will seize theatres, streets and places of the city and other unusual places. The artillery factory, declared good of Cultural interest, is without any doubt, one of this "unsual places"; for the first time in its large history,it will turn into a show place.Israel Galvan "solo", without music and without any kind of artifice, in the magnitude of the rooms of theartillery factory, is in charge to open this new edition of the "Dance Month", that will be dedicated this year to the dance and its relationship with technology. "Solo" of Israel Galvan, in which the dancer uses only his body, and silences to build his speech, is, teh starting point of this reflexion about the exceptional capacity of thecontemporary dance to incorporate technologies. A route that leads us from this "Solo" to proposals that sirve ofsensors, computers, several softwares and on-line interaction for these creative processes; machines are at the serviceof the creation and the dance is at the service of the machines to create pieces in live, in a play of inter relationshipand improvision with many possibilities.

The opening of the "Dance Month" will supposed the premiere of the artillery factory as a space for scenic arts and the beginning of Israel Galvan in Andalusia in an contemporary exibition. The dancer participated in the majority of the andalusian flamenco festivals but not in contemporary dance events, in spite of that out of Andalusia, he realizedthe biggest part of his shows in the multidisciplinar festivals.

El próximo 29 de octubre a las 21.00 horas el espectáculo "Solo" de Israel Galván marca el inicio de 23 días donde la danza contemporánea será la gran protagonista.

"Solo" is a very personal reflexion about his own dance in which we could see all his personalities, a piece in which the dancer opens himself to the public and invite him to convert in a "voyeur" that introduces himself in his rehearsal local. Despite he has been opened in the Cinémathèque de la Danse of París in 2007, the show is totally presented renovated in the "Dance Month" after the revision for the show the last month in Abadía Theatre of Madrid.The piece is adapted to the space, and we could see it on the 29 of october in the royal artillery factory. It willbe unic and a once-in-a-lifetime performance.The "Dance Month" is a "trans-forma cultural production" project according with the Culture Institute and the art city council of Sevilla (ICAS). The Culture Ministry supports it through the INAEM and the regional cultural ministry, the International university of Andalusia (UNIA) and the "Tres Culturas" foundation.