Ask the members of Argentinian avant garde theatre company Fuerza Bruta how they describe themselves and you will be met with furrowed brows and half-hearted comparisons with Cirque du Soleil, before receiving a confident assertion that there isn’t anything quite like them. What can be said with certainty is that Fuerza Bruta (or “brute force”) is true to its name.
The group, which premiered its first performance in Buenos Aires in 2005 before going on to become a national institution and tour the world, offers a mixture of hip-hop dance, high-wire artistry, light and noise extravaganza, and heat-pounding, feet-stomping euphoric rave. Depending on your interpretation, a show may weave an intricate narrative via metaphor and image – or simply be a spectacle for the sake of gorging one’s senses.
