Saludo DCP Desert Project

The Desert Project was a human experience very intense and rich that took place in southern Peru. Imagine 30 people who came from different locations, Theatre Embassy and Cascoland from Holland and Deciertopicante from Peru.

For two and a half months we worked here in the city of Tacna, which is the head of one of the driest deserts in the world.

That experience was very intense, very rich and at the distance it now looks fantastic.

Peru is a developing country that nevertheless is going through a stage of an interesting and important economy, an economic development that we had not seen in decades, but in 2009 was a very difficult year and 2008 was a year that left a sizeable economy. In this context, however, the city of Tacna was troubled by a dispute over the rational use of water. Tacna is a desert, is really a valley but in the higher areas of Tacna, where there is snow over the mountains, there are sources of rivers, where mines, large transnationals wish to collect water for their own use, and somehow it is limiting the water consumption of the population and the strike was for that reason. The slogan of the moment was "Water yes, not mining". Meaning water as a symbol of life.


Nothing better for our project because we played key issues as was the theme of the desert and the issue of water and sustainable development, so our guests had the opportunity to see the synopsis of a conflict in our society.

The next topic I want to discuss with you is the meaning of the Teatro Orfeon. Theater Orfeon be turned into a Tower of Babel, many people of diverse cultures and languages were trying to agree on how to do theater. Imagine the Dutch, Castilian, English, Aymara and all artistic languages of our various organizations trying to agree on how to do theater, nothing more difficult that thirty artists and one of them says: "It's here the way. "This was difficult but this did it exciting and very interesting

But besides being a human experience and language experience, I think it might be more interesting to tell you is that this was an artistic experience. Finally Fiona de Bell and Cascoland provided community art experience, about how to do small jobs from the everyday, and from objects to build artistic performances. Theatre Embassy provided all their knowledge in organizing and financing and direction of Berith Danse who allowed join these pieces, the puzzle that made the show. and I think Deciertopicante brought not only youth, gave his experience in acting and dramaturgy. You may also be highlighted the knowledge of the social context in which we develop this experience. So we turned the desert into a multicultural setting that was in pursuit of sustainable development.

I hope that when you see this video, you can imagine with me not only the presence of all of us, if not also allows you to watch the magic that was built in the desert. thats it and see you next time.

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