A tribute concert to the universal and Cuban clown classics that mark the history of the Teatro Tuyo company, from Las Tunas, is the most recent installment of this group, a true jewel that comes to feed the soul in times of pandemic and on purpose 22 years of the consecrated artistic troupe.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Thus Clownsicos pays tribute to Ferdinand (Jiri Vrstala), Trompoloco (Edwin Fernández), Popov (Oleg Popov), Bip (Marcel Marceau) and, of course, Charlot (Charles Chaplin).
The work, composed of 12 pieces under the musical direction of the young Ridel Meriño Rivero, combines solemnity, fun, nostalgia, and joy in equal dimensions on a stage, in which four musicians become an orchestra for a clown on stage, without more expressive than his body and soul.
Ernesto Parra Borroto, actor and leader of the Company, expressed today, during the critical period Punto de Turno, that making Clownsicos as a tribute to those greats is another commitment of Teatro Tuyo on that path to vindicate the art of the clown, through of the footprint of five masters who put themselves at the service of their generations.
“Ferdinand, Trompoloco, Popov, Bip, and Chaplin have been the references for the troupe during these more than two decades of dedication to the stage, but they are also so from their human quality and therein the richness of the aesthetics that our work transmits lies, which today is transferred to the students of the National School of Clowns,” he pointed out.
A poster at the entrance of the Teatro Tuyo cultural center makes it very clear: "Performances are postponed;" this is the spirit of resistance of a group that was ready to premiere Clownsicos on its 22nd birthday and the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow it, so they took the virtual scene from the hand of SalamanD.R.A. Audiovisuales, under the direction of Dalgis Román Aguilera and Eddys Crespo Vargas.
The performances of Ernesto Parra, Alejandro Batista, and the versatile Aixa Prowl, are complemented by the presence of students from the National Clown School and at the end, the children company that arrives with sunflowers to weave that magic that closes with the growth of that tree with red noses, a symbol of Teatro Tuyo and the service they provide from their art to the humanly beautiful of this world.
