Inspired by the research carried out by Laura Monrós-Gaspar Madame, by the company Cienfuegos Danza, revisits the figure of Madame Warton and her tableaux vivants in a proposal where the female figure as entrepreneuse, model, actress and dancer is central to the piece.
Between 1846 and 1848 Madame Warton offered her audiences in London an alternative aesthetic experience inspired by well-known paintings and sculptures of all times through her tableaux vivants. For this, she took over the former space of Mary Linwood’s gallery on the first floor of Savile House in Leicester Square and converted it into a theatre, the Walhalla, which shone above the variety of entertainments advertised at the square.
Madame, by the company Cienfuegos Danza, revisits the figure of Madame Warton and her tableaux vivants in a proposal where the female figure as entrepreneuse, model, actress and dancer is central to the piece. Inspired by the research carried out by Laura Monrós-Gaspar within the "Literature, Arts and Performance" Research Group at the University of Valencia, Yoshua Cienfuegos' choreographies bring the modelled bodies of Warton's tableaux back to the contemporary world through a reflection on concepts such as the voluptuousness of the female body, the restrictions on femininity in the Victorian era and mythical figures from the Western tradition such as Ariadne or the Three Graces.
