MADERA with Amanda Treiber + Company
Mark O'Donnell Theater. Brooklyn, NY
Nov 7h to 9th 2025
Amanda Treiber + Company presents a program of works, including a world premiere, by NYC-based choreographer and dancer Amanda Treiber—the first performance fully produced by Treiber and the debut of her new company. The evening features live music by Chilean composer and double bassist Manuel Figueroa-Bolvarán and American composer Philip Glass, performed by Figueroa-Bolvarán and Michael Scales, New York City Ballet's pianist. The program displays Treiber's ability to create worlds through unique movement vocabularies and her deep collaborations with dancers, musicians, and visual artists.
MADERA (wood), first conceptualized by Treiber and Figueroa-Bolvarán during Covid quarantine times, uses musical and dance improvisation to explore themes of environment, industrialization, destruction and regeneration. You'll be transported to the wide, open, and desolate Atacama Desert in Northern Chile through the experimental soundscape of the double bass and the piano and immersed on an imaginative journey to the once bustling communities of the saltpeter mines and through the destruction of these communities as the demand for the mineral diminishes. The ghost towns that are now left behind remain a scar on the land as the process of regeneration is a long and painful one.
BEETHOVEN'S 6th SYMPHONY AND 4TH PIANO CONCERTO
Sala de Conciertos ULS, La Serena, Chile
Dec 6th - 20:00
“Juventud Bucólica” presents an orchestral concert featuring guest pianist Maria Julia Mancero (Ecuador/Chile), a Santiago-based artist and FIMCE 2024 fellow, who will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The program pairs the concerto with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” and incorporates dramatized poetry by Viviana Larrondo, bringing a theatrical dimension to the performance.