A L A R I E T E

 

"We are Marlet and Victor, a married couple of artists, living and working together for the past two years in our performing art vessel called Alariete. We have designed and built our own ship with the particular statement of the unity between music, dance and theater, and by taking it as a motto in movement our goal is to generated pieces of performing arts as monads or wholes in order to express the human experience on this planet"

 

On August 2, 2013  after having agreed on an international meeting of drama and  a sample class of creation of  movement, Víctor Figueroa and Alejandra Marlet decide to gather for three days in the mountains of Tapalpa , Jalisco  not knowing that after this weekend  they will decided to devoted all their efforts together in the performing arts.

 

It was a month later when the art in situ project, Busquedad , encourages them to integrate for the first time and directs them to build their first piece  " If you do not listen , you die ,"  this stagecraft leads them to organize concerns and interests for consolidated an interdisciplinary perform in an unconventional  spatial intervention .  With no previous experience working together, but with the confidence in each other and with the full dedication to the artistic creation , both look and name as Alariete what would be in the first instance a "group", then quickly transformed into the Free Art Company Alariete. That eventually took shape and moved to the city of Puerto Vallarta to perform and solidify .

Hence their vision evolves and becomes Compañía de Artes Vivas Alariete .

 

Working for national and international tourism on the harbor  the company promotes and presents several shows with popular topics , while with the shelter allowance of the Cultural Institute of Vallarta they  devise and produce  the stagecraft  Metadonna   reaffirming the concepts and intentions of the company, the union and wholeness between the performing arts.  This work was presented in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara and recently was presented on the First Latinamerican Festival of Contemporary Choregraphers in Oakland, California.

 

Alariete is now an art company that uses music , dance and theater as a motto in movement. Generating art as a whole and not by the sum of its manifestations , designed to demolish obsolete concepts , to overthrow satisfied minds , prejudices , fears, thoughts and useless material barriers that do not allow the human spirit to live in freedom.