1 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:59,200 Hi, I'm Iker Gómez, a choreographer 2 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,400 and a bit of a director as well. 3 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,800 I'm in Santiago 4 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,600 and this is the third time I come to the Sala Nasa. 5 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,680 This time I'm going to present my third play, 6 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,620 a co-production of Mercat dels Flors, 7 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,900 CONCA and other producers. 8 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,000 Its name is Apple Love. 9 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,040 Ave reves nolacións sobre o amor total ('The Nine Revelations about Total Love') 10 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,700 and, as usual, it's about love. 11 00:01:23,450 --> 00:01:24,600 The first time I said, 12 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,100 "Team, I have a new idea. 13 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,700 We'll do a piece about love!", 14 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,300 everybody said, "Love, man? 15 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:31,600 Can't you think of anything more original?" 16 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,480 Love, such a trite topic, from religion to science! 17 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:37,080 So I said, 18 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,800 "Yes, I think this topic can be staged 19 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,320 and we can also do it from a contemporary approach. 20 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:43,960 Even with dance." 21 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:45,800 And I was so happy in the rehearsal that 22 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:46,600 when I went home I thought, 23 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 "What am I going to do now?" 24 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,300 I started to explore the different possibilities with stage potential 25 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,900 and I eventually found out that there's much potential in the way 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 we live and feel love today. 27 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,100 Romantic love has been transformed. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Love used to be linked to people who did nothing 29 00:02:05,350 --> 00:02:06,700 because it was more about emotions and feelings. 30 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,400 But now romantic love 31 00:02:08,700 --> 00:02:10,680 can be totally linked to the Balay washing machine. 32 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,950 I see ads of the Balay washing machine and say, 33 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:15,500 "That's total romantic love for me". 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,900 However, what I'm doing is to buy and consume. 35 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:19,400 I get up in the morning, 36 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,200 turn on the radio and hear David Bisbal 37 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,200 and when the song is over they say, 38 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:24,240 "Chat with David Bisbal on Facebook." 39 00:02:25,860 --> 00:02:29,760 All that I want has become a constant necessity, 40 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,900 but one that's virtual and intangible at the same time. 41 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,700 I don't see David Bisbal, 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,040 I see the washing machine in the advertisements. 43 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:42,000 They're small media pills that we constantly consume 44 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:44,900 and have to be more and more spectacular, 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:45,800 amazing, 46 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:47,300 total. 47 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,800 I love the concept "total". 48 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,200 After the absolute and the supreme, there comes the total. 49 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,600 That's why we decided to call 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,400 the basic concept of the play "total love". 51 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:50,160 This is a piece that consists of nine parts 52 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,500 in which we work through a body code 53 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:55,580 in various capsules or containers, 54 00:03:56,340 --> 00:03:59,080 from a soap opera to a Pimpinela- style music video - 55 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:02,900 different possibilities 56 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:06,600 of what total love represents in our day-to-day existence. 57 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:12,120 We basically used two scenographic concepts that we developed. 58 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,680 On the one hand there are green apples, 59 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,360 which symbolise virtual love. 60 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:18,959 They're green and not red 61 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,600 because that's how they represent passion and love. 62 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,300 It seemed much more consistent to me to use green 63 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:26,300 because green is related to freshness, to immediacy. 64 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:27,700 But also to recycling. 65 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:31,200 Something that "will be the best, the most original tomorrow," 66 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:32,700 but will not be so anymore on the day after tomorrow 67 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,300 because you'll have Bustamante instead of Bisbal, 68 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:35,200 and that's fine, 69 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,900 because Bustamante is the best now. 70 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:38,860 "I need to speak with you. " 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,240 "You have five minutes." 72 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,600 "I know you have a very busy agenda today, love, 73 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,700 but I need to speak with you before you leave for work." 74 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,200 "Five, not more! 75 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,320 Five minutes." 76 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:09,300 "My coochie-coochie, 77 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,320 I found something in the pocket of the trousers of the suit 78 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,460 I gave you for your birthday". 79 00:05:16,580 --> 00:05:19,600 "Were you searching the pocket of the trousers of the suit?" 80 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:23,200 "No, love, I was not searching, 81 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,100 I was doing the laundry." 82 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,240 "The laundry? 83 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,200 And since when do you do the laundry, María Candelaria?" 84 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,640 "Since you sent Xosefa Francisca away from here!" 85 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,260 "We fired Xosefa Francisca cos you wanted to!!" 86 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:38,440 "You know perfectly well why we fired her!" 87 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,600 "One day we'll speak about what I know 88 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,240 and what I don't know." 89 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,700 What you don't know, love, 90 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,520 is how much I love you. 91 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,400 How much I love you, Alberto Luis. 92 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,440 You break my heart, 93 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,200 you break my soul into millions of molecules 94 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:02,600 that only one look from you 95 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:05,960 could reassemble. 96 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,200 You see? You deny it and don't say anything. 97 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,700 I even dyed my hair, Alberto Luis, 98 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,700 and you don't say anything!! 99 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,130 That's how you pay me back. And this is how you pay me back, 100 00:06:23,380 --> 00:06:26,880 with these things you leave in the pocket of the trousers of the suit 101 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,240 I gave you for your birthday!!!" 102 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,640 You and your birthday presents. 103 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,400 What about the fake diamond pins 104 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,520 I gave you for our anniversary? 105 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,200 It's you who's quiet, looks and doesn't say anything now!!" 106 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,240 "I don't say anything cos I don't want to cry. 107 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,700 Because crying is the only thing I have now 108 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:10,700 and I can only hold on to what I have 109 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,080 and the only thing I have now is to hold on to something!" 110 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,900 "That the only thing you have now is to hold on to something? 111 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:23,000 Gosh! 112 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,160 Isn't it enough to have indulged all your whims? 113 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,040 Cars, furs, beds 114 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:33,900 - luxury manicures with varnished diamonds, 115 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,840 holiday clubs, VIP stuff, the hairdressing salon -" 116 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:38,080 "Alberto Luis!" 117 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:39,400 "What, love?" 118 00:07:43,780 --> 00:07:47,380 "I only want you to love me more than I do." 119 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:53,440 "You only want me to love you 120 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:56,080 more than I do?" 121 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,720 "Not more than you do, 122 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,500 "You only want me to love you 123 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,280 more than you do? 124 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:10,940 No way. 125 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,260 That's impossible. 126 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:15,960 It's against the mystery of the Holy Trinity!! 127 00:08:16,350 --> 00:08:19,300 The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one! 128 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:22,080 Both in the kingdom of heaven 129 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,600 and here on Earth itself!" 130 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,760 As a contrast to apples we chose chickens. 131 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,440 As the representation of ourselves, 132 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:37,880 of how we live tangible love, 133 00:08:39,300 --> 00:08:40,920 which, unfortunately, is rarer and rarer. 134 00:08:43,050 --> 00:08:44,340 I chose chickens because 135 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,400 I think they have a lot to do with our society. 136 00:08:48,780 --> 00:08:50,200 For example, if you cut a chicken's head off, 137 00:08:50,370 --> 00:08:51,500 it will still move. 138 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,800 They say chicken meat is very similar to human flesh. 139 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:57,400 There were many parallel concepts. 140 00:08:58,300 --> 00:08:59,300 If I had to choose an animal, 141 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,100 I'd choose a chicken. 142 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,300 With apples, chickens and love 143 00:09:04,220 --> 00:09:08,800 we made a sublime and total piece about love. 144 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,360 The piece has nine parts, 145 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:36,800 so why not letting the audience make one of them? 146 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,740 I had the idea of an online karaoke. 147 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,630 Could there be anything better than for me to be 148 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:46,660 the main character of my favourite song? 149 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:48,600 That's total love indeed. 150 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,560 I chose nine musicians, nine singers, 151 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:53,880 and we made a music video in which they do a karaoke, 152 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:55,600 each one singing from home, 153 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,700 recording with their own laptop, 154 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,680 their webcams, since everyone has a webcam 155 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:01,560 and knows how to use it. 156 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:05,920 We made a promotional campaign: "Hi, we're this project. 157 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,200 This video exists already 158 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:10,960 but if you also shoot it 159 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,520 and you fancy singing 160 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:16,800 this amazing song on total love 161 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,760 and upload it to our website, 162 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:23,680 we'll give you a half ticket 163 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,600 to be part of this. 164 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,620 We run the campaign one month before the premiere 165 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,400 and we got fifty people brave and courageous enough 166 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,700 to give their all and sing at the top of their voices, 167 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,760 since it's the only way to sing a total heartbreaking, passionate song. 168 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,100 We edited that and made a montage with the faces of many people 169 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:49,450 singing that song, 170 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,500 who were part of the play at the same time. 171 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:54,960 We made those fifty people want to see 172 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,800 what we'd done with their faces. 173 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,000 The most interesting thing is that we created a bridge between 174 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,440 the Internet and performing arts. 175 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:07,240 That's a potential I want to keep developing 176 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:10,240 what are my possibilities on the Web 177 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,720 to make people fancy coming to see stage works.