Haboobs are immense clouds of dust and sand that travel great distances driven by strong winds… like the sands of the Sahara that fertilize the Amazonian soil. This natural phenomenon is the inspiration for this work. The imaginary of the Amazon has been traditionally built from hundreds of white, colonial voices, voices like these sands that have crossed the air and the seas, to reach the jungle, to admire her, to exploit her… to lose themselves into her.
HABŪB (writings of sands and water), is the most recent work of La Quinta del Lobo.
Habub is a performative installation of immersive polyphonies that presents a poetic reflection on the diverse imaginaries constituted around the Amazon, it was recently premiered as part of the CNA’s “Voragine Expandida” cycle and was developed in co-production with the University of the Andes and La Quinta del Lobo.
Rereading “La Vorágine” 100 years after its writing, implies reconnecting to the images and stories of the jungle, portrayed as one and many places at the same time.
Nevertheless, some voices are missing, the local voices, the voices of the people who lived through the rubber genocide, which is in turn an event that marks the beginning of the crisis of exploitation and extractivism that has affected the Amazon ever since.
La Quinta del Lobo went to La Chorrera, Amazonas, center of power and resignification, to listen to these voices and see the place where history took place, to see a jungle that is spirit and presence… that is bigger than us, eternal.
Habub is a poetic reflection on the invisible universes that surround us and that constitute the delicate balance of the earth, which in turn make us rethink our human condition.
La Quinta del Lobo for Habūb are:
Concept, artistic direction, darmaturgy & video: Carmen Gil Vrolijk
Original music, sound design, guitar and electronics: Camilo Giraldo Angel.
Voice, performance and performative dramaturgy: Juanita Delgado.
Voice, performance: Juan Carlos Echeverry.
Percussion: Urián Sarmiento
Cello and electronics: Juan Manuel Toro
Lighting design: Leonardo Murcia.
Costume Designer: A New Cross – Agustín Nicolás Rivero.
Choreographic advisor: Vladimir Rodríguez
Voice-over and stage advisor: Juan Luna
General production and art direction assistance: Ximena Mejía Estrada.
CNA Tech Crew:
CNA Technical Director: Rafael Vega
CNA Sound Engineers: Marcela Mejía and Julián Daza
CNA Lighting Technicians: Camilo Duarte, Stanly Aguilar, Edgar Felacio
CNA Stage Hands: Sebastián Motta, Jorge Forero, Héctor González, Orlando Valero, Nicolas Bernal
CNA Costumes: Carolina Loaiza
Habūb is a co-production of La Quinta del Lobo – Universidad de los Andes and the National Center for the Arts.
Aknowledgments
Pueblo Okaina en La Chorrera
Cacique Pablo Neikase
Líder indígena Jose Pablo Neikase – N+ikaz+
Aris Neikase
Pueblo Uitoto M+N+KA EIMEN+ en La Chorrera, Amazonas
Cacique Marcelo Buinaje
Elio Buinaje – Líder indígena
Luis Felipe Ulloa – SelvaAventura
Hernán Gomez – Chona / Professional temático – Amazon Conservation Team
Sekfilms
Erna Von del Walde y Margarita Serge por su Edición Cosmográfica de La Vorágine publicada por Ediciones Uniandes
Pedro Salazar