Gymnasts: Pedro Arredondo, Víctor Camas, Laura Furlan, Olga Gutierrez, Barbara Lazara, Maria Luna, Raul Mendoza,

Musician:

Narrator: Gabriel Figueroa Pacheco,

original Music: Raul Vizzi, Katarzyna Klebba and Pawel Paluch,

original folk from Italy, Israel and Poland.

Assistant of Direction: Edgar Maldonado,

Production: Barbara Lazara and Laura Furlan,

Europe tour manager: Katarzyna Szumska,

Direction: Zbigniew Szumski

All the similarities are accidental. Hernan Cortes is a gymnastics’ teacher. The spectacle is a spied on lesson – a record from the school diary. The eight ideas of exercises illustrate eight watchwords: tango, childhood, demonstration, emigration, fable, motorization, love, suicide. The place of action: rented hall. Reason: gymnastic competition. Objective – question: who laughs at my fears.

This project is the result of the confluence of Teatr Cinema of Poland and a group of Mexican actors graduated from the Diplomado Teatro del Cuerpo (Diplomat on the Theatre of the Body). Both groups got together, first in October, in the city of Querétaro, as part of  the Encuentro Internacional de Teatro del Cuerpo (International Festival of Theater of the Body 2005), and in Michalowice, a small town in the Sudety mountains, official site of the Polish company,  in December of the same year. There, a workshop was organized as part of the academic activities of the DTdC. After a month of creative coexistence the wish to create stronger bonds leads us to present a more ambitious project, one that would allow us to maintain some level of continuity in our endeavors and the fortification of creative ties among ourselves and, best of all, to work altogether in order to create a binational company. Thus is how COOPERATIVA GIMNÁSTICA MÉXICO-POLACA HERNÁN CORTES was born.