A story written in our skin…

Between the copper color of the natives and the white of the Spaniards, between the black of the Africans and the copper of the natives, between the blacks and the whites, between the cinnamon-colored, lies the sum of all the colors that identify us as Colombians. We are of all colors. We are fruit of the mixture of different blood and of the colors of many skins. We are a culture which has been nurtured by many cultures. We are sensitive to the music whose beginnings stem from de Spaniards and the Arabs, the Africans and the natives. We are beings who dance to the beat of many beats.

Colores is a theater dance piece which traces our origins, which dances in a whirlwind of colors and spins in time, digging up the history of our skins and dancing in the crossroad of our most intimate desires, wishes, fears and violence. Colores is a kaleidoscope which presents wonder to us through a game of lights and music, of bodies and puppets, of scenery and the dance. It is a divertimento as well as a reflection. It is a brief synopsis of our history and of the story of a special magic, the magic of seduction, of attraction, of bewitching glances, of the love and hate which begets passion, and, above all, the desire to be free and to live that which we do not know we are but which identifies us and reveals to us how we are.

CREDITS

Conceived, Designed, Choreographed, & Directed by Federico Restrepo
Text by Alberto Quiroga, Federico Restrepo
Music Composition: German Arrieta, Gonzalo Sagarminaga
Performers: Federico Restrepo, Olga Barrios, Natalia Correav, Victor Mendozav, Karim Noack, Jorge Quinones, Marisol Rozo, Maria Paulina de Zubiria
Costume Design: Gabriela Monroy
Costume Construction: Margarita Castilla, Federico Restrepo, Ivan Cardozo
Puppet Construction: Ana Maria Buritica, Anika Quinones, Hector Velez
Rigging Design: Federico Restrepo
Assistant Choreography: Maria Paulina de Zubiria
Adviser to Director: Ivan Cardoso, Luis Alberto Restrepo
Assistant Light Design: Jorge Quinones
Production Coordination: Federico Restrepo, Leonor Estrada, Luz Jaramillo

PRESENTATIONS

1999

Teatro El Parque
Bogotá, Colombia

Chamber of Commerce Pererira
Bogotá, Colombia

1998

Jim Henson Festival
New York

Teatro William Shakespeare
Bogotá, Colombia

Teatro El Parque
Bogotá, Colombia

1997

Parque Engativa
Bogotá, Colombia

Teatro Kerigma
Bogotá, Colombia

PRESS

“The Jim Henson Festival”
Steve Abrams, The Puppetry Journal

“This Month on Stage: Colores”
David Lipfert, America’s Theatre Guide

“Review: Colores”
David Lipfert, CurtainUp