Building data:

 

Location:  Calle Obispo Rey Redondo, 50, 38201 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Web: http://www.teatroleal.es/ http://www.leal-lav.com/

Current use of the building:  theater

Past uses of the building: private social center (theater), dance hall

Character: public (general public use)

Date of construction: 1915 (Arq. Antonio Pintor Ocete)

Other: Listed building. Closed for more than 10 years, it was closed in 1990, refurbished in 2001 and reopened in 2008.

 

Stories data:

 

Stories generator: Montse – stage manager – and Javier – director of Leal.Lav

 

Characteristic of the stories: stories related with Montse’s job, the history of the building, the different changes it has gone through. 

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Tour data:

 

Space trajectory of the tour:  From the entrance hall to the chamber hall in the terrace, through the main aisle surrounding the auditorium, the backstage, the stage, the back entrance, the dressing room area and the elevator.

 

Movement score: When we walk through the main hall and aisle, they are invited to be as close as possible as way to care the listed building. In the stage we make a dance as a tribute to the dance hall it used to be. The dance consist of making a line facing the empty auditorium and stand there, then make a salutation. Storytelling score: Audience can edit the history being told with data of events or memories they know. In the elevator they are invited to have an elevator conversation around the question ¿what can our bodies do here?

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Date of the tour: 14/09/2017

Number of people: 30 people

Duration: 30’

Time spent there before: 10 days

Documentation: Pictures