{"id":22168,"date":"2026-05-06T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/?p=22168"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:55:15","slug":"duri-act-showcase-in-seul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/duri-act-showcase-in-seul\/","title":{"rendered":"DURI ACT SHOWCASE IN SEUL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, despite epidemics, lockdowns and communication breakdowns, the Catalan company is heading to Seoul, to the DURI THEATRE.<\/span><\/strong>
\nEnjoy it !!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Ararat (2019) is the first creation by Ester Gunt\u00edn in collaboration with long-term collaborator H\u00e9ctor Puigdom\u00e8nech. The work is a duet on muteness and loss, inspired by Armenian cultural memory and the fractured legacy of Komitas Vardapet\u2014a seminal figure whose silence until death still echoes as both wound and resistance. Rather than narrating history, the piece inhabits its aftermath: an introspective journey where memory dissolves into dream, and distance from reality becomes a necessary condition for survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through minimalist movement rooted in ancient Armenian geometric principles and the films of Sergei Parajanov, the performers embody states of confinement, ritual, and internal exile. The body becomes both archive and ruin, tracing a language that emerges precisely where speech has failed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ararat does not attempt to restore what was lost; it dwells in the impossibility of return.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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* Semi-finalist and finalist at\u00a0RIDCC (Rotterdam)<\/b><\/span>
\n* Duri Korea Prize at\u00a0ACT Festival<\/a>\u00a0(Bilbao)<\/b><\/span>
\n* Second Prize and Public Prize at\u00a0Certamen Coreogr\u00e0fic Estruch (Barcelona)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

With the support of\u00a0Estruch F\u00e0brica de Creaci\u00f3<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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–\u00a0Teatre Ovidi Montllor<\/b>,\u00a0 (June, 2020)<\/span>
\n–\u00a0Teatre de la Far\u00e0ndula<\/b>\u00a0\/ Certamen Coreogr\u00e0fic Estruch (October, 2020)<\/span>
\n–\u00a0Quinzena de Dan\u00e7a de Almada<\/b>, Portugal (October, 2020)<\/span>
\n–\u00a0Teatro Campos El\u00edseos<\/b>\u00a0Bilbao \/\u00a0ACT Festival<\/b>\u00a0(November, 2020)<\/span>
\n–\u00a0Ciutat de Nadal, Pla\u00e7a Catalunya<\/b>\u00a0Barcelona (December 2020)<\/span>
\n–\u00a0RIDCC<\/b>, Rotterdam International Duet Competition (June, 2021)<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Idea, coreography, light design: \u00a0<\/span>
\nEster Gunt\u00edn<\/span><\/h2>\n

Dancers:
\nElisabeth Oll\u00e9 and H\u00e9ctor Puigdom\u00e8nech<\/p>\n

Costume design:<\/b>
\nSol de la Villa – Marta Mas\u00a0 Soldevila<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally, despite epidemics, lockdowns and communication breakdowns, the Catalan company is heading to Seoul, to the DURI THEATRE. Enjoy it !!!! Ararat (2019) is the first creation by Ester Gunt\u00edn in collaboration with long-term collaborator H\u00e9ctor Puigdom\u00e8nech. The work is a duet on muteness and loss, inspired by Armenian cultural memory and the fractured legacy...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22169,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions\/22169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}