210-Lake (Show)

Effort and contemplation.

Work	210
Name	Lake (Show)
City and date	Banyoles, June 2004
Duration	70’
Instrumentation	flute, sopran sax, voice, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, salterio and piano
Parts	1) The first light 2) Dawn 3) Inside the water 4) Midday 5) Storm 6) Effort 7) Death 8) Love 9) Kids and birds 10) The stranger 11) Sunset 12) Night 13) Final party 14) Reeds 15) Making of
Texts	Josep Navarro Santaeulalia
Text language	Catalan
Cd	Humans (2015)
Premiere	Banyoles, La Draga July 24, 2004 Voice: Eva Trullàs Saxo and Flute: Adrià Bauzó Bass: Toni Terré Battery: Cidon Trindade Guitars: Marcelo Valente Piano and Psalteri: Paco Viciana
Premiere (piano version)	Tema l'albada per a l'espectacle Humans: Banyoles, Auditori 7 de Març de 2015 Piano: Paco Viciana

Multimedia show with photographies of Tino Soriano, poems by Josep Navarro Santaeulàlia, audiovisual by Xavi Perez and Miquel Casadevall "Quelfo", choreography by Iona Altimiras, set design by Pep Aymerich and stage direction by Angel Amieva, for the opening of the World Rowing Championship 2004 in Banyoles.

Presentation and plot of the show:

We invite you to join this fantastic journey for the senses. A trip along a virtual day around a place of extreme beauty: THE LAKE OF BANYOLES, important center during centuries of the experiences of thousands of people of all ages and cultures.

The show portrays a walk feelings and abstract concepts closer to the lake: water, light, wind, trees, leaves, life and death, effort, the night, the stars, the people ... Through different artistic disciplines (photography, music, poetry, theater, sculpture, video ...), we intend to raise public awareness about the importance of this natural landmark.

For more than an hour of show we want to convey the familiar warmth of the first rays of the sun or the shocking sting of death in the womb of the water, the fresh smell of wet earth after the storm, the effort flooding the art of self-improvement, the melancholy of fallen leaves and the vitality that surrounds and crosses the lake.

A humble and reflective trip about life and death. An initiatory journey in search of a more hopeful horizon. A return to Nature.

This means to be LAKE.

All the poems that we used in the show, written by Josep Navarro Santaeulàlia, were Haikus, an ancient Japanese structure of making minimalist poems. I put an example of one of them::

Neither mud nor fire.
My soul is water,
Green and blue light.

In 2007 I made a summary of the show in 18 minutes by a synthesizer, called Living the lake, as music for an advertorial about the lake of Banyoles, comission of the producer 24 imatgesxsegon and the Consortium of the Lake de Banyoles, producer Quim Paredes.

Later I created various arrangements of parts of the shows:

For violin and piano:
-1) The first light
-3) Inside the water
-9) Kids and birds
-11) Sunset

For piano solo:
-2) Dawn
-10) The stranger
-14) Reeds

Work included in the shows:

- Lake (2004)
- MOT Festival (2014)
- Humans (2015)
- The light inside the water (2019)

Lake (70'):

Summary-Trailer (5'48):