CRA’P Resident January – December 2025

TEXTURES

THE LISTENING AS A POETIC ESSAY / POLITICISING THE POETIC BODY

A research and creation project on the identity of the body and its politics of representation based on the textures of movement in writing. The project seeks to register and display the conditions of the body and its materialities (fragility, affects, vulnerability, otherness).

TEXTURES offer a return to intimacy, in this case through dance research, as a place of encounter, as a way of sustaining the fragilities that constitute and con-form us. The main questions that mobilise the research suggest the possibility of considering intimacy as a political gesture, the listening as a poetic essay, and the movement as a way of expressing this dialogue between body-thought.

Ana S Couso. Graduated in Law and Economics, MA in Cultural Management (UOC) and 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 workshops in Madrid, Barcelona and Thessaloniki (Greece). Has participated in workshops and festivals in Europe and Israel. Has collaborated with companies and artists 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 pursuing with the project ‘Estudio sobre el Humo’. In 2019, she presents the first draft of this project (‘Memoria de un instante’), with the assistance 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, l’associació Espaidó and l’associació Cultura Seitai for the dissemination of Seitai.