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RIO ALONSO QUESADA - La umbría, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cuyás Theater, BUY, Saturday, November 22, 2025, 7:30 PM, 1:00 AM, Synopsis, November 22, 7:30 PM
La umbría, by Alonso Quesada
Musical composition: Laura Vega
Choreography: Vanessa Medina
Version and direction: Quino Falero
ALONSO QUESADA CENTENNIAL

Alonso Quesada, one of the great figures of modernism in the Canary Islands, was born in 1886 and died prematurely in 1925. He was an author who explored all genres and, always taking into account the limitations of island life, dared to immerse himself in the literary avant-garde.

He was a great lover of theater and was closely involved in the performing arts, not only as an author but also as an actor and as a critic for several newspapers. He was part of a vibrant cultural scene; the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the time had a cultural climate unusual for a provincial and insular city.

Many theater companies arrived on the island on their way to America. Quesada, in writing La Umbría, necessarily had to reflect everything he saw, heard, read, and discussed with his friends. French symbolism, Ibsen, and Valle-Inclán were fertile sources for the poet, who had already used theatrical devices in both his poetry and prose, but it was in La Umbría, a dramatic poem in three days, that he fully embraced the art of drama.

It is a complex and ambitious work with two protagonists: health and illness. These two concepts are projected onto the characters: on the one hand, the town enjoys vigorous health, while the Linares family, confined to La Umbría, the name of the family mansion, live threatened by illness. This duality is also used by the author to construct an allegory that reflects the two social classes: the common people and the wealthy bourgeoisie, or a kind of false aristocracy. Death, which becomes a constant threat to family members, represents failure rather than liberation.

Synopsis
Through movement and music, this contemporary dance performance portrays illness, fear, death, and their ghosts in a drama that takes place in La Umbría, the old mansion of the Linares family, on an Atlantic island during the second decade of the 20th century.

DANCE
DURATION: 1 HOUR
SINGLE PRICE WITHOUT DISCOUNT: €10