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 PUERTO MADERO Sunday 8pm. It’s already nighttime. People are taking a walk along the waterside in Puerto Madero. This is Buenos Aires’ newest and trendiest neighborhood. Once an area of nondescript docks, the district has transformed the enormous red-bricked warehouses and abandoned lands into top-notch restaurants, modern offices and luxurious hotels.
All the streets are named after prominent female figures and the striking steel-cabled pedestrian bridge is called Puente de la Mujer, Spanish for Woman Bridge. Ciudanza A bunch of people are gathering right there, at the end of the bridge. Suddenly, a woman from the crowd starts to dance, slowly at first and quite wildly soon afterwards, as if music was trapped in her body. As people notice it and turn to look at her, she stops dancing and disappears through the crowd. At the same time, a man and two women start to rhythmically bounce up and down and then walk, and again bounce up and down. They have not gone mad.  The Ciudanza performance has already begun.Ciudanza is part of “Ciudades que danzan” (Dancing Cities), an international network of festivals focusing on dance in urban spaces. The network is currently comprised of 32 European and South and Central American members. This exciting new artform embodies the union of architecture, urban space, contemporary dance and public, opening a different vision of the artistic and cultural heritage inherent in the city. During last weekends, Ciudanza was presented in other venues: Parque Tres de Febrero and Parque Centenario. Unlike Puerto Madero performance, those took place during daylight. Today’s performance is the last one of the Ciudanza festival organized by the Secretariat of Culture of Buenos Aires City.  Ciudanza Guided by two women on stilts, the crowd follows a circuit that covers five stops, in each of which a different choreography is performed. The first one, “Muestra Taller”, ends up with the public dancing among the professional dancers in a feverish party mood. The second one, “Ocupaciones Breves” transforms a large square into a stage for a playful and fun dance routine that brings laughter to the audience. “Amanecer Moscovita” is an intense dancing duet once performed in theatre and now staged on square benchs and staircases.  Ciudanza In “Peldaño y 3”, the countless steps of a cement staircase have a prominent role in the threesome choreography, making human anatomy interact with this geometric architecture. “Zona Abierta" completes the program with Debussy’s music performed by a live string quartet. The performance, set among bushes illuminated by a yellowish light, resembles a dance in sepia of wood nymphs running across the forest.  Ciudanza This was Ciudanza, a celebration of dance in all its styles and forms, under the open sky of Buenos Aires.
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