CRA’P Workshops 2026
19 and 20 September
SATURDAY from 10:00 to 13:30 and from 15:00 to 18:00, and SUNDAY from 10:00 to 14:00
In this workshop, we will explore the regular practice that I have been following and teaching since 1986. It is a personalised practice inspired by the Body Weather Laboratory in Tokyo, founded in 1973 by Min Tanaka, a butoh dance teacher and performer, with whom I trained.
Body Weather is a comprehensive, holistic practice of physical training and performance that explores the intersections between the body and its environment. Bodies are not conceived as fixed, separate entities; rather, like the weather, they are constantly changing through an infinite and complex system of processes taking place both within and outside these bodies.
As a training system, Body Weather is extremely useful for anyone interested in exploring the body and the physical self, and can be seen as a practice closely related to various forms of dance and theatre. There are no pre-requisites for getting started.
Since birth, our body is an entity in a state of constant change. Naturally, in the early years of our lives, we absorb information through our most basic senses. External climatic changes, internal rhythms, our biological clock and our sense of real time, etc. All this information is imprinted on our bodily memory, yet over the years we gradually forget it and lose touch with it. Countless times we speak of the body in terms drawn from nature: blood flowing like a river… thoughts passing through the mind like clouds… having a character as strong as a tree, and so on.
The external landscape begins at our skin and extends outwards, whilst the internal landscape begins within. To be fully attuned to our surroundings – with our senses and the pores of our skin open, and with sensitivity – means paying attention to ourselves, to others and to our environment. Repeating a physical practice gives us the opportunity to explore the different aspects of our physical structure and nature: our bones, muscles and nerves, as well as our mind and sensations.
The aim is to re-examine our movement patterns, to listen to the outside world through our skin, to re-learn how movement is produced and what it produces, and ultimately to understand the body as a holistic entity made up of many independent parts. Questioning day by day what dance is or what it ought to be allows us to go beyond our limitations. Reaching our limits every day without crossing them is a constraint on the dream of bodily freedom to which we must aspire as people and as dancers.
Led by Andrés Corchero
Fees:
130€ (110€ for CRA’P collaborators and associates, and members of the APdC, AADPC, APCC and AGT).
Discount for registrations before 1 September:
115€ (100€ for CRA’P collaborators and associates, and members of the APdC, AADPC, APCC and AGT).
Registration:
info@cra-p.org / +34 666 763 504
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Andrés Corchero. Dancer and choreographer.
2021 Critics’ Award for Best Dance Solo for the show “Absències”
2003 Catalonia National Dance Award. For his artistic career and for the show “El bufó sota la tempesta”, in collaboration with the poet Feliu Formosa.
2001 Applause Award – Sebastià Gasch FAD Award for the Performing Arts, jointly with Agustí Fernández, for the show “A modo de esperanza”
“Al pas de la Tarda 92” Award from Radio Nacional de España for his multidisciplinary shows in collaboration with Feliu Formosa.
Born in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) in 1957. He lives in Catalonia since 1963.
Honesty, risk and sensitivity are some of the qualities that characterise Andrés Corchero’s work. His performances are intimate, elegant and full of emotion, and his artistic language is highly contemporary.
A tireless explorer of the languages of the body and dance, he discovered Butoh dance in 1985. He travelled to Tokyo, where he studied and worked with Kazuoh Ohno and Min Tanaka, world-renowned masters. From 1986 to 1995, he danced with Mai-Juku, a dance company directed by Min Tanaka.
For more than thirty-five years, he has combined creation with teaching and pedagogy. He has expanded the Body Weather method, teaching classes and leading workshops around the world. From 2005 to 2023, he was a visiting lecturer at the Conservatory of Dance and at the School of Dramatic Arts at the Theatre Institute in Barcelona. He has taught at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Switzerland and at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.
The delicate and precise quality of his gestures and movements, combined with his experience working with poets such as Feliu Formosa and Antonio Gamoneda, with the writer Jordi Rocosa, his relationship with the music of Agustí Fernández and Joan Saura—two leading figures in the world of improvisation and music—and his collaborations with figures such as Miguel Poveda and Silvia Pérez Cruz, are just some of his many strengths.
His trajectory is full of collaborations with other artists. These include, amongst others: Rosa Muñoz, with whom he founded the Raravis Company; María Muñoz and Pep Ramis of Mal Pelo; Àngels Margarit; Ana Pérez; Hisako Horikawa; and Oguri, a Japanese dancer with whom he has collaborated closely from 2011 to the present day. He also collaborated extensively with Joan Ollé.