ANA S COUSO

CRA’P Residences 2024

20 December at 19h
CRA’P space

TEXTURES is a movement exploration and research that takes as its starting point the body as a space of transit. A space from which to observe what is being manifested. What exists before expression becomes formalised?

As in a scribble, in which the interior and the exterior seem to blend together, moving in search of the lines that run through us internally.

Which is the place of interiority? What would its opening be like? Could these interior lines be gestures that, like cracks, allow us to sense the subtle light of the human?

What if we let ourselves be moved by an open intimacy – what would change?

TEXTURES is the second entry of the project ‘Estudio sobre el Humo’, which began in 2018, and pursues a research on intimacy, through the body in dialogue with a practice of recording in different formats – image and writing.

Accompaniment by Toni Cots.

Photo: M. Cavalakis

Presentation of the creation process

Free entrance. Limited places

Ana S Couso. Degree in Law and Economics, postgraduate in cultural management (UOC), and the ‘Master in Contemporary Arts Practice and Dissemination’ organised by L’animal a l’esquena / University of Girona/Dartington College of Arts/ Maska.

In dance, she has trained independently in different schools and studios in Madrid, Barcelona and Thessaloniki (Greece), and has also participated in workshops and festivals in Europe and Israel. She has collaborated with companies and creators from Greece (Vis Motrix, XSomma – Popi Sfika, Adranies), France/Japan (Masaki Iwana) and Israel (Shahar Dor). Together with other artists she founded the collective Nomeolvides.co, and co-directed the multidisciplinary festival Espacio, based in Thessaloniki (Greece, 2008-2012). Recently, she trained as a Seitai (Katsugen/Yuki) instructor.

In 2010, she completed the ‘Master in Contemporary Arts Practice and Dissemination’ where she investigates the body in movement as an experience of intimacy, a research that she is currently continuing with the project ‘Estudio sobre el Humo’. In 2019 she presents the first draft of this project (Memoria de un instante), with the accompaniment of Toni Cots, and the collaboration of Carme Torrent.

In recent years she has collaborated with different cultural associations: CRA`P – Pràctiques de creació i recerca artística (Creation Practices and Artistic Research), the association ‘Espaidó’ and the association ‘Cultura Seitai per a la difusió del Seitai’.