Sueños is a danced theatre that does what no one expected: putting tango and butoh into dialogue. Two languages that seem incompatible — tango all skin, speed and the vertigo of the couple; butoh born of pain and silence, generating movement from the unconscious — and which, in Armin Heinemann’s hands, find their alchemy.

The piece tells a love triangle where the «fauns» reveal the emotions the characters cannot express directly. Butoh acts as a kind of essential filter of the human being, giving body to the invisible energies flowing between the different characters. A white, tender shadow performing the breath and the emotion that precedes the gesture.

The show moves between impulse and restraint, between flesh that lets itself go and the rawness of a body that controls every muscle in movements that escape reason. The soundtrack interweaves classic and modern tangos with music by Chopin, Gluck and Bach. The word, through the poetry of a voice-over, completes the oneiric territory.

It was performed in a single show at the Palacio de Congresos of Santa Eulària, Ibiza — a one-night ritual, deliberately unrepeatable.

ABOUT ARMIN HEINEMANN

Armin Heinemann is a scenic creator, designer and artistic director of German origin based in Ibiza. Founder of the historic Ibiza Opera Festival and co-director of Paula’s Ibiza alongside Stuart Rudnick. Always unclassifiable, always faithful to a search that goes beyond the aesthetic.