ALQUIMIA ESCÉNICA - TFYD
 
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CORPO GOURMET is an artistic, social and culinary experience created by Omar Carrum´s and his company ALQUIMIA ESCÉNICA in collaboration with local artists, companies and Festivals from around the world. 

The menu consists of 8 GOURMET SCENIC DELICACIES composed of Physical Theater matched with exquisite dishes created especially by a renowned local chef.

Each scene happens in 8 specific rooms of a building, house, bar or restaurant of the city, weaved with a dramatic thread that involves food and emotional body states.

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 THE EXPERIENCE

With their entrance ticket the audience arrives and gathers at a central area where they will receive a glass of wine and a menu from which they can choose 4 performance delicacies to begin an artistic and culinary tour through the tastes of their desires.

A presenter explains the instructions of the game: at the 1st bell the guides of each scene will come out with a limited amount of tickets for the audience to choose their first Gourmet scenic delicacy, at the 2nd bell the guides will take their group to the scene place where they will  receive their first dish, at the 3rd bell all the scenes start at the same time. 

While watching the artists and hearing the music, the audience tastes a dish that has the flavors and smells expressed by each particular scene. All the senses spark, while emotions rise—creating a sensational experience that is unlike any other.  

At the end, all the audience will come back to the central area to continue the social game, share their experience with others, have a drink, and get ready to choose their second course when the 1st bell sounds again. The whole cycle repeats only 4 times, so each person could only taste 4 gourmet scenic delicacies, for sure the curiosity and wish to taste the other scenes will make them come back for the next day….

 
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STATEMENT

Theater & Gastronomy are fundamental axes of society and the collective identity of the individual who tastes and perceives them, they become fundamental parts of our memory, our background and foreground,  innovating our world and transforming our present choices. Going beyond our skin, they're able to touch our deepest sensitive, rational, emotional and kinetic fibers.

The individual who perceives by observing, hearing, smelling and tasting a scenic act becomes part of it as a fundamental support for its creative existence. 

Thus Corpo Gourmet is a bet to rethink the possibilities of creative art by mixing in a single experience physical theater and gastronomy, two forces that join with the spectator social game to create a dramatic triad as the main substance of this experience. 

Corpo Gourmet is a project that promotes the collaboration in NET since it involves around 40 people from the artistic and culinary community of the city. Performing artists, guides, Chefs, waiters, bar tenders and Staff create an experience that strengthens and integrates the cultural, social and culinary activity both for the attendees and for all the artists and people involved.

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HISTORY

Corpo Gourmet has been presented and tasted in:

 

  MÉXICO - 2015 and 2016

with Delfos company, 35 performing artists and chef Diego Becerra at Casa García in the city of Mazatlán.

BRASIL - 2017

with the company Camaleão, 7 performing artists and Chef Agnes Farkasvölgyi at the event CASA COR in the city of Belo Horizonte.

PANAMA - 2018

at PRISMA international Festival with 21 performing artists and the chefs Roberto Varela and Rafael Reyes at the private house of Heurtemate family in the city of Panama.

COLOMBIA - 2019

with Cortocinesis company, Detonos project, 30 performing artists and chefs of Selina Colombia Diego González and Carlos Cardona at Selina Chapinero in the city of Bogota.

CZECHIA - 2023

with Lenka Vagnerova Company, 12 performing artists and chef Marek Fitchner at Cerveny Jelen in the city of Prague.

MEXICO - 2023

with Lenka Vagnerova Company, 14 performing artists and chef Alan Miranda at Un Teatro in the Mexico City.

 

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 Corpo Gourmet scenic delicacies

Within Corpo Gourmet project 11 guest choreographers have collaborated with Omar Carrum & ALQUIMIA ESCÉNICA to create 21 Gourmet Scenic delicacies. 93 performing artists, 6 renowned Chefs and many assistant cookers, waiters, bar tenders, guides, technicians and staff have been involved to perform the experience to the audiences in Mexico, Brasil, Panama and Colombia.


Anthropophagy

  • PANAMA EDITION - Tuna tartare in Bloody Tiger Milk, wild rice and sweet pepper

  • COLOMBIA EDITION - Fake carpaccio of watermelon, rugula and parmesan chips

Four characters come together to fulfill a sacrifice agreement. While you taste the absurd preparation of an Archimboldo-style arm and head, you can relish how each one of them transforms into a character according to chance. Being his destiny becom…

Four characters come together to fulfill a sacrifice agreement. While you taste the absurd preparation of an Archimboldo-style arm and head, you can relish how each one of them transforms into a character according to chance. Being his destiny become the drunk, the headless man, the lover, the painter or the toilette paper Diva.


Family portrait

  • PANAMA EDITION - Devilish eggs of laying hen with salmon and caviar of millo

  • MEXICO EDITION - Sweet sigh of laying hen

Two characters struggle with their differences about the origin and belonging of the precious eggs, the envy of the inevitable truth will develop in a surprising end.

Two characters struggle with their differences about the origin and belonging of the precious eggs, the envy of the inevitable truth will develop in a surprising end.


Walls of Silence

Alfajor de manjar blanco y bacon crocante

Dirección: Omar CarrumIntérprete, co-creador: Brianna LópezMúsica: Pan Sonic, Duane Eddy y David LangGuía y apoyo técnico: Paulette Guardia

Dirección: Omar Carrum

Intérprete, co-creador: Brianna López

Música: Pan Sonic, Duane Eddy y David Lang

Guía y apoyo técnico: Paulette Guardia


Under your skin

PANAMA EDITION - Trio of seafood, meat and vegetable skewers paired with garlic and orange butter

Two characters search the pleasure and calm inside their own skin by peeling an orange. They will find much more within the juice of their emotions.

Two characters search the pleasure and calm inside their own skin by peeling an orange. They will find much more within the juice of their emotions.


Bleeding in the Sky

PANAMA EDITION - Fake vegetarian burger with vegetable chips

MEXICO EDITION - Reproach of the cattle in slider with barbecue sauce and farmer's bread with corn

A surreal character will come down from the sky to change the fate of a woman who is going through the terrible process of food industry at the mercy of a farmer who milks her dreams.

A surreal character will come down from the sky to change the fate of a woman who is going through the terrible process of food industry at the mercy of a farmer who milks her dreams.


Memento Mori

El Sancocho que se creía Ramen 

Coreografía: Karol MarencoIntérpretes, co-creadoras: Marilin Rodríguez, Ana Serrano, Nayseth Reyes y Anniela HuidobroComposición musical: Marcial Amaya y Juan Carlos ParadaGuía y apoyo técnico: Nicolás Real

Coreografía: Karol Marenco

Intérpretes, co-creadoras: Marilin Rodríguez, Ana Serrano, Nayseth Reyes y Anniela Huidobro

Composición musical: Marcial Amaya y Juan Carlos Parada

Guía y apoyo técnico: Nicolás Real


The Garden of the earthly delights

Tomates y frutos del bosque, burrata y Miel de Balsámico

Coreografía: Anniela HuidobroIntérpretes, co-creadoras: Keyla Concepción, Verónica Guillermina Vázquez, Katherine OcampoMúsica: Xavier Cugat, Thelonious Monk y Paul GigerGuía y apoyo técnico: Jahanel Pitti

Coreografía: Anniela Huidobro

Intérpretes, co-creadoras: Keyla Concepción, Verónica Guillermina Vázquez, Katherine Ocampo

Música: Xavier Cugat, Thelonious Monk y Paul Giger

Guía y apoyo técnico: Jahanel Pitti


Absence

PANAMA EDITION - Naked Wedding Cake

COLOMBIA EDITION - Fresh peach in the process of dehydration with young wine matured in oak barrels presented maturation stages of vitis vinifera

A couple in love patiently awaits the arrival of the other. While you accompany them through the mirrors and the passage of time you can taste the process of dehydration to unveil their secret story.

A couple in love patiently awaits the arrival of the other. While you accompany them through the mirrors and the passage of time you can taste the process of dehydration to unveil their secret story.