CRA’P Laboratories 2024-2025
From October to June
The LAB provides a space for exchanging knowledge, based on the principle of reciprocity from a shared time that is nourished by the experiences, contributions, capacities and proposals of each participant. Its continuity is built on the need to develop a process of exchange, collaboration and dialogue to build maps of shared knowledge.
The LAB aims at generating a critical framework of transmission through research practices based on the body. Through improvisation sessions, collaborative proposals, debates on performance spaces, and shared reflections on other disciplines and contemporary languages.
The purpose of the LAB is to implement and reflect on those practices in which form can be understood as a construction from which to think about that which is real, which has an immediate effect on the body. A body that simultaneously channels different perceptive processes, modulated by intensities and energies, from where the language opens up to imagination and potentiality.
The LAB is held with a small number of invited participants.
Directed by Toni Cots
Timetable: Mondays from 10h to 14h
If you are interested write to info@cra-p.org
Toni Cots is an actor, researcher, teacher and director of Performing Arts, and manager of international cultural projects. Has studied contemporary dance in Europe and different theatre traditions and martial arts in India, Bali and Japan. For 10 years has been an actor of Odin Theatre, and a staff member of ISTA – International School of Theatre Anthropology until 1985. Has directed cultural and theatre programs, activities and festivals in different countries and cities (Sitges, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, etc.). Has generated international cultural projects related to social issues in different countries as well as contexts. His cultural projects, artistic works and workshops, as Basho and on his own, have been presented and implemented in Europe, Southern Mediterranean region, Latin-America and Asia. Between 2001 and 2010 has generated and coordinated, together with the dance company Malpelo, the research and creation Centre L’animal a l’esquena, in Girona, Spain. Between 2007 and 2010 is the director of the MA in Contemporary Arts Practice & Dissemination. From 1999 to 2019 is part of the editorial board of Performance Research (Routledge). Currently is a founding member of CRA’P.