Practices for inhabiting imaginaries

CRA’P Laboratories 2026

Saturday 30th May from 10:30 to 14:00

A practice lab that explores the body as a living archive through the historical phenomenon of choreomania.

Through somatic practices, states of expanded awareness, and tools of improvisation, repetition, and variation, we will explore forms of embodied knowledge and the relationship between movement, image, memory, and collective imaginaries.

The lab is part of Zoe Balasch’s research and creation project COREOMANIA, currently in residence at CRA’P, and is based on the IE methodology – Embodied Imaginaries. This methodology uses a visual archive as its starting point to activate, channel and transform the imaginaries associated with the ‘mania for dance’.

This session is part of an ongoing research process, in dialogue with the development of the project within the contexts of contemporary art and thought.

Lead by Zoe Balasch

Free

Registration: info@cra-p.org / 621 199 972

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Zoe Balasch is a dancer, performance artist, social psychologist and researcher. Her work spans the performing arts, performance art, the living arts and community-based creation. As the creator of the IE methodology — Embodied Imaginaries —, her practice draws from the intersection between dance, writing and the intangible.

Since 2023, she has been developing the project *Epidemia de baile*, a research initiative focusing on the relationship between dance, madness and mechanisms of bodily control, which has taken various forms on the stage, including site-specific pieces, long-duration performances and participatory devices.

She is currently continuing this line of work with COREOMANIA, an ongoing research project that delves into dance as a form of thought and cultural resistance, and into the body as a living archive, exploring imaginaries linked to madness, excess and lack of control, as well as states of transition and forms of physical and social overflow.

Taking a critical stance towards mainstream choreographic discourses, and even towards the very concept of the dancer, her work brings together history, fiction and the esoteric as tools to unlock imaginative possibilities, go beyond the body’s limits and make the invisible visible.

She is currently an artist-in-residence at CRA’P – Pràctiques de Creació i Recerca Artística.