Breaking HIStory & The Last Dancer: A Kintsugi Journey on Hogmanay

 

Breaking HIStory & The Last Dancer: A Kintsugi Journey on Hogmanay

From Conflict to Community through Movement: A Trilogy's Homecoming

After two profound encounters—first in Glasgow with Indepen-Dance, then in the Canary Islands—the collective Breaking HIStory (Coll Hutchison and Nelson Iván Simonelli Wizard) arrives at a symbolic third chapter: a homecoming. On December 28, in Coll's home in Tain, Scotland, we will close this trilogy where it quietly began: in the landscape of origin, memory, and paternal dreams.

This is not a repetition, but a reassembly. We gather "with the rubble of the pieces left along the way"—fragments from Glasgow's inclusive workshops, from the urban kintsugi of Las Palmas, and now, from the Scottish Highlands on the threshold of Hogmanay.

The Script, Rebroken:

The structure will echo our hybrid encounter in Canarias, but rewritten by place, season, and intimacy. We will begin, as before, with the warm, wandering voice of Facundo Cabral (“I'm not from here, nor am I from there”). But from his “Me gusta…” (I like…), the text will pivot—toward “To be ”.

From here, Nelson 

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Coll will respond from his own fractures,  

The Last Dancer: A Living Dramaturgy

This gathering intertwines naturally with the ethos of Nelson's solo work, “The Last Dancer: A Kintsugi Journey.” As in the Situar Danza festival, the piece's dramaturgy rewrites itself with each location. In Tain, it becomes a Hogmanay ritual within a ritual.

A core proposal will be the breaking of language itself: Nelson will speak primarily in Spanish, leaving deliberate pauses for the audience to whisper translations to their neighbors. The goal is not perfect linguistics, but connective tissue—to transform the space into a living, murmuring procession where stories are passed "from ear to ear."

The Questions We Carry:

• How do we live in an era “where the old does not finish dying and the new does not finish being born”?

• How do we repair not just ceramics or bodies, but lineages, silences, and the bonds between fathers and sons?

• Can we piece together a shattered language with something more precious than gold? Perhaps with the shared fire of attention on the eve of a new cycle.

A Pact for Hogmanay:

We invite you not just to watch, but to repair together. To symbolically burn what no longer serves, and to ask what might be born from the ashes. This evening will be a kintsugi of moments: fragments of malambo and breaking, of Argentine plains and Scottish glens, of a father's lost stories and a son's persistent search, of the mutual learning between a seeking son and a holding father.

This is the third repair. The golden join where our journey comes full circle—not to end, but to be made whole, healing the broken stories of paternity and filiation, before setting out again.

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Practical Info:

• What: Breaking HIStory & The Last Dancer: A Kintsugi Journey on Hogmanay

• When: December 28

• Where: Tain, Scotland (private residence)

• A collaborative, intimate performance by: Nelson Iván Simonelli Wizard & Coll Hutchison.

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