David Zambrano’s 50th-year sabbatical 2010

250 days of walking in new shoes. For this project, David Zambrano choreographed the whole year 2010–11 in events that involved the number 50 as a celebration of his 50 years of age:
– 50 days intensive workshop for a selected group of 50 professional dancers representing more than 30 countries, staged in San José, Costa Rica.
– 50 village performances: 10 villages each in Costa Rica, Senegal, Poland, South Korea, and Slovenia.
– 50 mins performances with Edivaldo Ernesto and David Zambrano in Brussels.
– 50 days painting on the coast of Cadaqués, Spain.
– 50 days learning how to make shoes (cancelled due to health problems with the shoemaker from Sweden).

“There’s a riveting solo by Zambrano in which the space around him seems full of menacing beauty – things that he reaches for, things that cause his body to contort, recoil, fall. Yet his dancing is, as always, boundlessly resilient.”
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice