The Need to Go

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Date:
February 2020

The musical experience The Need to Go invites us to put ourselves in the place of migrants through the painting The Madonna of the Village (1938 - 1942) by Marc Chagall and the music of Dúa de Pel. Thus, both artistic representations take us to a unique world between the conscious and the subconscious, to a world inhabited by memories of infancy and youth; a place, as Chagall himself would say, that “(...) uproots the self, in the sense that it rips it from the earth in which it has all its biological fibres”

Performing: Eva Guillamón and Sonia Megías, of Dúa de Pel; Marta Escudero, Rafael Tarjuelo and Rubén García-Casarrubios, of PlecTres; Beatriz Alcaine, wardrobe; and Natalia Martz, sound technician.

The Need to Go starts off with a musical tour Movement, Better Shared. A new experience as part of 360º Thyssen, the project that gives you the opportunity to enjoy the works of the museum from different perspectives thanks to the collaboration of Fundación BBVA.

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To experience this piece immersively, open the video on YouTube, wait for it to load and drag your finger across the screen to look around as it plays. Or just move your smartphone to enter the rooms of the museum.

 If you want to continue exploring the relationship between painting and music, you can download the app Second Canvas Thyssen and enjoy the Sonic Paintings tour.

In collaboration with: Fundación BBVA.

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