CRA’P resident June – November 2025

MADRE Y MONTAÑA (MOTHER AND MOUNTAIN)

Madre y Montaña is a performative work that weaves dance, word, song and image to bring me closer to the mountain as a symbolic, spiritual and corporal figure. It is an intimate rite between that immense body and my own. The Andes Mountains, specifically the one that borders Santiago of Chile, my hometown, have been for me more than a landscape: a refuge, a projection and a belonging. A territory where I have dropped my solitude, my silences, prayers, deepest questions, most destructive fears, most intense loves.

This solo is born from the desire to name and to honour an ancient bond between my existence and the mountain: my symbolic mother, silent witness of my life, who has always supported me with her immensity. She has taught me to feel my steps, to survive my collapses, to let go with strength. To not disappear in front of its greatness. To not run away from the trembling.

“Madre y Montaña” is also a way of keeping her presence alive in me, even from afar. To resist physical oblivion and cultivate the link through the body, movement and memory. A way to return without returning, to stay with her for a while longer.

Claudia Sprenger García. Dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance movement therapist, born in Santiago de Chile. She graduated in dance and choreography at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and completed a Masters in Dance Movement Therapy at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and another in psycho-corporal resources at the Instituto IASE (Valencia). Her work intertwines dance, writing, music and body accompaniment, searching for honesty and life in creation. As a teacher, she has given classes and workshops in cultural and educational centres in Chile and Barcelona. As a dance movement therapist, she has accompanied people with severe disabilities, delving into non-verbal language and the different ways of cultivating therapeutic presence. In parallel, she has studied different spiritual and therapeutic currents such as Ayurveda and meditation, integrating them into her way of inhabiting the body and understanding creation as a path of listening, trust and soul.