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Gabriela Mariana Sandoval |
El Movimiento de las Imágenes is a show
about a word that connects it all. It's the
sound of two black holes colliding; it's
how you greet someone from a distance
or let them know you're drowning; it's how
Einstein and Virginia Woolf understood
the Universe. This show, which premiered
May 26, 2016, at Platform Theatre in
London, is about waves. Media starts as
an omnipresent character talking to the
performers, mixing animation and pop
culture to construct itself. As the show
progresses, the performers take control of
the technology and use it as their tool to
show the audience a different perspective
of the universe on stage. The show plays
constantly with parallels: what the audience witnesses and how the media can
frame this view.
Gabriela Sandoval is a performance
designer whose work revolves around
the moving image. She holds a Bachelor's
in graphic design from Mexico City and
recently graduated with an MA in Performance Design and Practice from Central

Chengwei Teng |

El Movimiento de las Imágenes

Photo by Manon Santi, Santi/
Sfyri, courtesy of Gabriela
Mariana Sandoval.

Saint Martins in London. She worked for
four years as an animator and a production designer, as well as at a national
broadcasting channel in Mexico. Originally
a still image designer who was passionate
about infusing her work with cinematic
elements, she transferred this passion to

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Photo by Chengwei Teng.

One Hundred Years of Solitude was a sitespecific production at Qigu Salt Mountain in Tainan, Taiwan. Gabriel García
Márquez's novel was adapted to a play
by Man-Nong Chou. The location, Salt
Mountain, is a famous site in Tainan; far
away from the city, the mountain naturally

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theatre. Her work has been shown in the
Platform Theatre and the Royal Albert
Hall in London, the Jerez Alcazar Castle in
Spain, and she has workshopped in Italy
with artist Olivier de Sagazan. She is currently living and working in Mexico City.
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provides the loneliness that the story
requests. With this organic giant natural
scenery and wind, and sometimes rain
and stars, 25 actors placed on every possible area were just like paint on canvas.
They inspired me, as a lighting designer,
to use light and shadow to strengthen the

sensory stimulation for the audience. The
performance began before sunset; these
two hours of natural lighting transformation paralleled the play, shifting from the
sun as a huge background to theatrical
lighting as darkness came. During the
transformation, the audience would see
the contrast of the light and shadow that
describes the Buendía family's rise and
decline throughout the play.
Chengwei Teng is a freelance theatrical
lighting designer in Taipei, Taiwan, and won
the 2017 World Stage Design Gold Award
in professional Lighting Design. Teng
earned an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and is also an alumni of Taipei
National University. Recent designs include
Serenade, One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Shakespeare Wild Sisters Group, Queen
Xiao-zhuang and Dorgon by GaoGuang
Opera Company, Mulan the Musical by
Tainanier Ensemble and Studio M in Resort
World Theatre, Sentosa, Singapore.

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