DAVID ESPINOSA (ES): MY GREAT WORK (AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT)
19. i 20.9. ● 19:00h i 21:30h ● 50 min ● &TD semicircular hall
Having an unlimited budget, the largest theatre in the world, 300 actors on stage, a military orchestra, a rock band, animals, cars and a helicopter, My Great Work is a large-scale show, in which no expense was spared, all the ideas were developed regardless of the expense, with an unlimited artistic team and financial means at disposal.
But, obviously, with a slight difference in – scale. Thinking big and doing small, David manages to create a miniature theatre of epic dimensions. Continuing the exploration into the limits of theatre and deepening the interest of previous projects on the idea of performing, My Great Work questions the meaning of high-budget artistic creations which most often turn out to be very gimmicky and disingenuous colossal works with questionable substance.
INTERVIEW
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE “MY GREAT WORK” TO A RANDOM PASSER-BY?
My Great Work is what I would do if I had an unlimited budget, the largest theater in the world, 300 actors on stage, a military orchestra, a rock band, animals, cars and a helicopter.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS FORM TO TALK ABOUT REALITY?
Why not? I decided to study theatre due to a series of coincidences, and I wasn’t at all conscious of the implications….Actually, I would have liked to become a famous actor like Michael J. Fox or shoot Back to the Future 4…If I had known what would happen after I dedicated myself to a somewhat more experimental theatre, I think I would have been disgusted by this suffering, instability and precarity of labour!!!
WHY SHOULD WE, AS AUDIENCE, CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING?
Please don’t take care! I don’t like artists who take themselves too seriously, who think that their work is transcedental and that the world should be thankful to them…You do what you can, and in case it’s useful to anyone, great. The important thing is that it’s helpful at least to you, that it makes you feel good, it entertains you, and if possible, helps to pay your bills…
IF YOU HAD ANY MEANS AVAILABLE (‘IDEAL WORLD SITUATION’) WHAT KIND OF PROJECT WOULD YOU DO?
A project called My Great Work (an ambitious project)
WHAT THREE THINGS NEVER FAIL TO BRING YOU PLEASURE?
Three things? Take me out for a beer…I can tell you that one of the things I enjoy most is the process of creation, this period of thinking, doubts, brilliant ideas and enthusiasm, it is the best part of this job. It’s like a brain-teaser or a hieroglyph that you need to decode, and then one day „eureka!“ It’s solved. This feeling is comparable to sex, having a good paella, or hitting a perfect stroke in tennis. Come on, in the end I told you my secrets ;(
BIOGHRAPHY
David Espinosa (1976) holds a B.A. from E.S.A.D, Valencia. Since 1994, he has studied Contemporary Dance, Improvisation, CI and Capoeira in Valencia, Brussels, and Barcelona.
CREDITS
Created and directed by: David Espinosa
Performance: David Espinosa / Cia. Hekinah Degul
Collaboration: Africa Navarro
Sound and music: Santos Martinez / David Espinosa
Stage design: David Espinosa / Air Models and Architecture Projects
Production: El Local E.C. / C.A.E.T., in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya and I.N.A.E.M.-Ministerio de Cultura
Distribution: M.O.M.-El Vivero
(Project grant from the Artists in Residence Program of Bilbaoeszena)
