Piedra (Stone)

In the middle of the road

In the middle of the road there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road
there was a stone
in the middle of the road there was a stone

Never should I forget this event
in the life of my fatigued retinas
never should I forget that in the middle of the road
there was a stone

There was a stone in the middle of the road
in the middle of the road there was a stone

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

"PIEDRA is proposed for three performers, as a road to explore resistance, conquest and failure. The hardness of the body and the moment of fracture that surprises like something unexpected."

Stone, surprise and emancipation

"With Piedra, Igor Calonge opened XIV Festival Catropexa in the Vigo hall and it was one of the shows in which I have most experienced the virtues of the surprise effect lately, and don’t ask me how, the artistic Piedra of Igor Calonge and his company Cielo rasO has not only overcome the stone in the road of the metaphor by the Brazilian poet Drummond de Andrade, but also other stones that everyone carries in their backpack. Dance and theatre, when they work, possess these graces.

Alfonso Becerra, Piedra. Artezblai Magazine, 30-12-2018