VANESSA VARGAS AND DANIEL ESPARZA
CRA’P Residences 2026
25 de September at 19h
CRA’P space
A lot of moving parts is the result of a creation and research residency around the idea of instruction: what it is, how it is read, how it is translated into action, and what remains of it once executed. It stems from the study of instructions and scores as devices open to multiple interpretations. On stage, a musician and a dancer develop different instructions that do not always coincide with one another — each follows their own score, sonic or corporeal — and it is from that gap that the piece emerges. Both also involve the audience, who receive or complete another set of instructions. The work is a meditation on the interpretive possibilities of the word “instruction”: being instructed, the instruction received, and the practice that responds to or rejects it, and how these readings are shared with others. Instructions, materials, and objects function as starting points that generate frictions, agreements, or deviations — hence “a lot of moving parts.” The piece is situated in the intermediate territory of the hermeneutic exercise: the negotiation between points of view, the possibility of error, and the process of translation between instruction, action, and shared meaning. The musical pieces derived from this residency will be part of the upcoming album by Instituto Internacional del Ruido.
Presentation of the creation process
Free entrance. Limited seats
Vanessa Vargas is a dancer, communications scholar, researcher, and dance theorist whose work articulates theory and practice through journalism, cultural studies, and social theory. Trained in Venezuela, she joined the Taller de Danza de Caracas (2002) and the Compañía Nacional de Danza de Venezuela (2007). Since 2014 she has lived in New York, where she has collaborated with Rastro, Accidental Movement, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, and Christopher Núñez. Her projects have been presented at Dixon Place, Judson Church, Pioneer Works, and Performance Mix Festival in New York, as well as in Lima and Barcelona. She has collaborated with the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA, on exhibitions of Lygia Clark, Yoko Ono, Simone Forti, and Cecilia Vicuña, among others. She has held residencies at La Caldera and Freezone Barcelona, and in 2024 was a resident at MACBA. She holds a BA in Dance, a BA in Social Communication and Journalism, and master’s degrees in Social Communication and Research and in Performance Studies (NYU). She holds a PhD in History and Theory of the Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona. As a journalist specializing in live arts, she works on curatorial research and archival practice projects. She has taught in New York, Caracas, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona, including at UCAB, PUCP, and MoMA’s educational programs. www.vanessaavargas.com
Daniel Esparza is an art historian, musician, and PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University (New York). His musical project, Instituto Internacional del Ruido, designs soundscapes. Also trained across disciplines in comparative literature and psychoanalytic studies, his intellectual and artistic production converges at the intersection of philosophy of religion, anthropology, and critical theory. He is a lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). www.desparza.com / institutointernacionaldelruido.bandcamp.com