ÁLVARO ESTEBAN & LAURA ARIS
CUALQUIER MAÑANA
©Elías Aguirre ©Jelena Jankovic ©Andi Bančic ©Germanmaton ©Salomon R. Plaza
©Vèrtex Deltebre ©Günter kraemmer ©Mai Ibargüen ©Lucia Baldini
Cualquier Mañana (Any Given Morning) invites the audience into an intimate and emotional journey shaped by the evocative power of movement. This duet explores presence and absence through the physical dialogue of two highly experienced performers with international recognition.
Cualquier Mañana is an emotional reflection on the natural sadness of broken things — the moments when what once fit together no longer does. Each morning can bring a shift in perspective. Now the spaces linger, where the pieces of the puzzle simply don’t align as they once did. We trace the lines we once drew, though time has worn them thin. In this space, each memory, like a whisper, fades from within.
The work unfolds as a physical journey into the present, a realisation that the past cannot return, and an exploration of how we carry loss, memory, and transformation in the body.
“They looked into each other’s eyes and, almost every day, the question would arise.
— Do you want to be happy?
— No, thank you, came the answer.
One morning, like any other, the need to know arose.
— Why?
— I’m afraid of what might happen…"
Álvaro Esteban
In delicate balance,
when a couple of words,
a gesture, a snap, a shift,
a casualty or a coincidence,
when a simple whisper can tip the scales.
Sometimes our reference points disappear,
leaving only guts,
the visceral
Created and performed by Álvaro Esteban and Laura Aris
Original music by Roger Marín
Costume Styling Heidi Ehrhart
with the support of HKAPA- Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Ultima Vez asbl, and DAR.
The press said"
“Only two mature and seasoned dancers are capable of giving such richness to each of their movements on stage; from their brutal stage presence to the meticulousness of their transitions from one step to the next.”
Luis Alberto Sosa Berlinga, Sep 28, 2022. Achtung! Danza, escena. Madrid.“Esteban and Arís use every fiber of their bodies to produce expression. We would have gladly seen more.”
Dietmar Kanthak, Boon, Germany 2017“Esteban and Arís are two wonderfully unsettling beings, as grand as two dancers can be when they move in harmony.”
Nicole Strecker, Boon, Germany 2017“The orchestration of the three main elements of the work — movement, light, and music — is impeccable, deliberate, and objectively organizes sensations, atmospheres, and emotions. It is a kind of stage composition that makes us pay attention to an important lesson often overlooked in theater: God is in the details.”
GO Teatro – Theatre Criticism Portal of Goiania, Brazil, 2018“Laura Arís, a dazzling light in the open-air courtyard, dances her Herida Abierta, enchanting us with the passionate and at the same time unsettling grace of a praying mantis.”
Martin Vögele, Mannheimer Morgen, Germany 2015“On stage, it was evident that their conceptualization and their proposal as artists are translated into the body and into their performative capacity. (…) Cualquier Mañana places before us a profound dialogue between partners.”
El Apuntador, Performing Arts Magazine Quito, Ecuador, April 2015“The star of this year’s festival was Laura Arís Álvarez, a renowned Spanish dancer and choreographer who led a workshop, performed solo, and presented a duet. Laura has been part of the European dance scene for more than twenty years. The reason was obviously visible in the performance of Cualquier Mañana, which she presented alongside her younger colleague Álvaro Esteban.”
Tomislav Čadež, Jutarnji Kultura, Svetvičent International Festival, Croatia 2017
Cualquier Mañana (At Any Given Morning) is the result of a collaboration between two independent dance artists, brought together under the framework of The Anatomy of Broken Things —a concept developed by Laura Aris out of a personal curiosity. This exploration has led her to create other projects under the same theme with various artists.
about ÁLVARO ESTEBAN
After years of working under the baton of different choreographers, companies and several choreographers, Álvaro begins to discover his personal movement supported by self-awareness techniques and meditation, giving emphasis to the development of awareness, all physical, emotional and energetic sense. Today, beside of been still part of the companies Cia. Daniel Abreu (ES) and CocoonDance (DE), he is looking forwards to new projects, following a work line that influences different configurations of the body, in it is absent - present , leading him into collaborations with other artists.
Álvaro co-created "Cuadra-T ” together with Natxo Montero, Finalist at the Choreographic Competition of Madrid 2008. Also co-created "Entomo" together with Elias Aguirre, a multi - awarded piece still on tour and with more than 100 performances worldwide.