(an)danzas is an exploration of the possibilities of urban living through bodily experience in a playful and sensitive sense. “How to embody the city?” was the creative question that guided the actions in the city as a way to build a reciprocal relationship between body and city, to explore the performative dimensions, opening up to the sensitive and experimental layers of urban living.
(an)danzas is an invitation to question a possible city through the body and its journey through space, a mobile and experimental relationship between body and city. A rehearsal of walks, a constant drift. Observing the everyday and transforming it into an urban choreography. Tracing the city, embodying the city.
Director Statement
With the creative and research question “How to embody the city?”, my interest in artistic creation delves into the exploration of materialities that generate alternatives to dance for extra-theatrical works. By exploring the experience of the body in the city through walking, I seek to generate creative methodologies that broaden my understanding of dance and enable collaborative work with artists from other disciplines.
Bio
Lía Arenas Arce (Santiago, Chile, 1990). Artist and cultural producer, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of Chile and a Master of Arts from Catholic University of Chile. She has developed her artistic work by researching and creating around the experience of the body in the city, creating a disciplinary intersection between dance and architecture. In 2020, she launched the Inciso Subterráneo art laboratory, serving as its director, researcher, and performer.
She is the artistic coordinator of the Center for Artistic and Cultural Extension at the University of Chile, and has been a producer for the Department of Music at the University of Chile and for various art projects. She has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile. She has participated in art research residencies in Brazil and France, and in art and cultural management conferences in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and France.
Director: Lía Arenas Arce Creation: Lía Arenas y Santiago Del Valle Performer: Lía Arenas Arce Video: Santiago Del Valle Dávila Montage: Gonzalo Barceló Sound designer and composer: Constantino Honorato Taborga Audio master : Adán Fresard Production: Inciso Subterráneo
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
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