The Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center will host the show ‘La cosa y la fuerza’ by the Malaga dancer and choreographer Luz Arcas

The performance will take place next Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 p.m., with free admission after collecting invitations at the box office of the exhibition hall two days before the event.

The Estepona City Council informs that the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center will host next Saturday, March 9, at 8.00 pm, the dance show ‘La cosa y la fuerza’ by the dancer and choreographer from Malaga Luz Arcas, winner of the II Godot Award 2023 for Best Dance Work for ‘Mariana’, with the accompaniment of Rafael SM Paniagua.

The artist has also been recognized with the El Ojo Crítico de Danza award in 2015 and has been a finalist for Best Female Dance Performer at the Talía Awards in 2023 and at the Max Awards in 2017 and 2022. Her repertoire has toured different countries, accompanied by teaching projects in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. She is also the author of the book ‘I thought dancing would save me’, published in October 2022 in the publishing house ‘Continta me tienes’.

‘The Thing and the Force’: “I find it impossible to dance after seeing the engravings of The Disasters of War. The body does not want to move. Again and again the lucidity in the treatment of the theme, its topicality, is striking. Goya does not differentiate between good and bad, victors and vanquished, invaded and invaders. Everything is violence. Simone Weil said that, in The Iliad, the true hero, the true theme, the true center is force. In The Disasters, for me, the same thing happens. The force managed by men, the force that subdues men, the force before which men’s flesh withdraws (…) Force is what makes a thing of anyone who is subjected to it (…) the vanquished is a cause of misfortune for the victor, as the victor is for the vanquished”.

Admission to the show will be free of charge, with prior collection of invitations at the box office of the exhibition hall from two days before the event.

With this performance, the cycle of cultural activities programmed by the City Council and Fundación MAPFRE on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Goya. Desastres de la Guerra’, which can be visited until March 31 at the Mirador del Carmen. The cycle began on February 13 with the conference ‘The struggle for life’, by the curator of Collections of Fundación MAPFRE, Leyre Bozal, followed on the 15th by a recital by the musician and poet Abraham Boba, from the group ‘León Benavente’.

The collection ‘Goya. Desastres de la Guerra’ is made up of 80 prints that Francisco de Goya y Lucientes made to express the pain and anguish he felt at the events of the war and its consequences on the civilian population. Francisco de Goya’s engravings constitute one of the most important parts of Fundación MAPRE’s collections and confirm the interest that this organization has always had in works on paper and specifically in engravings.

The exhibition can be visited free of charge by people registered in the city.