CRA’P resident 2020
ATLANTIS2020. REQUIEM FOR A LANDSCAPE
Requiem for a Landscape is a staging proposal that takes form out of a research on body, movement and presence that began in 2017. This investigation is called Atlantis + the year in question. Thus, the title is updated every year, highlighting the present moment and the procedural nature of the research.
The work is based on bodily memory, especially in relation to the subjects of territory and death. Body memory is understood not only as personal memory, but also as all inherited and collective memory. The exposed body seeks to focus mainly on the denied collective memory, to access the collective subconscious that has been buried. A memory that connects with the cruelty and violence of human beings, and that does so from pain and pleasure, from destruction and from the primary longing for life.
The staging, conceived as a fluctuate landscape that gradually leads the viewer to a contemplative gaze, is an invitation to a space for retrospection and personal reflection.
Photo: Tristan Perez-Martin
Concept and creation: Diana Gadish
Performance: Esther Freixa and Diana Gadish
External eye and dramaturgy assistant.Toni Cots
Lights design: Daniel Miracle
With the support of La Caldera, Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho), CRA’P, Fundació la Plana and Fabrica de les Arts Roca Umbert.
Diana Gadish, attends Fine Arts at U.B. and in 2007 she graduated in choreography
studies at S.N.D.O. She completes her final-year internship with David Zambrano in Soul Project and with Diego Piñón (www.butohritualmexicano.com).
In 2008 she got in touch with clown discipline, working with Jango Edwards in Cabaret Cabrón. As a clown she studied, among others, with Christophe Thellier, Fanny Giraud, Miner Montell and Jef Johnson. She has performed with her own clown sketches in numerous cabarets, festivals and poetry encounters. With one of them she won the First Prize at the Figueres Comic Festival of 2011.
As a performer she has worked in dance, theater, clown and performance art projects in several countries (Holland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Mexico), with the artists Amaranta Velarde, Maria Stoyanova, La Fura dels Baus, Joao Negro , Jeremy Wade, Guillem Mont, Katerina Bakatesaki, etc. From 2003 to 2007 she was a member of the interdisciplinary music and dance improvisation group The mOving Point (Amsterdam).
In her own creations she manages a personal and unclassifiable language, with the body and comedy as the central axis. With her works Hiccup for Home (2007), Genesis Joplin (2009), Lucy Live (2013), Handle with care (2016) and Atlantis. Sketch of a Landscape (2018) she has performed in several European and Latin American countries.
In the field of teaching, she has taught dance and body expression classes to children, adults and young people at Col·legi de Teatre, Laboratorio escuela, Escola La Falguera and Santa Isabel School. She has also given intensive clown workshops for adults and young people in different centers and institutes. In 2018-2019 she did the project En Residencia at Joàn Boscà secundary school.
Since 2015 she is working as a hospital clown with the NGO Pallapupas and teaches Paula Method (body work) classes at Laboratorio Escuela. He is also a member of CRA’P – artistic creation and research practices.