CRA’P resident 2018
ATLANTIS2018
A landscape sketch
“Atlantis2018” refers to the myth of a civilization that has disappeared due to a catastrophe.
The title is re-updated every year. The re-updating affects the processual and unfinished character of the research, which does not point towards a specific goal but to a practice that is constantly confronted to the present moment. The research started in 2017, and has been shared with different people going through different work stages.
The main axis of the work is the memory of the body, especially related to the territory, addressing not only the personal memory, but also all the inherited and collective memory. It is a proposal of immersion, reaching depths where fiction and reality are no longer discernible.
COLLABORATORS
Toni Cots, as external eye and dramaturgy assistant.
People participating in the process in the studio: Sigrid Kollmannsperger, Darío Castro, Daniel Loaiza, Amaranta Velarde, Esther Freixa, Carme Martínez and Oihana Altube.
With the support of La Caldera and Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho); and CRA’P and Fundació la Plana collaboration.
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).
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 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.
With her creations Hiccup for Home (2007), Genesis Joplin (2009), Lucy Live (2013) and Handle with care (2016), she has performed in Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Denmark and Mexico.
She currently perform with Lucy Live and Handle with care, since 2015 she works as a hospital clown with Pallapupas and teaches dance and bodywork at Col·legi de Teatre de Barcelona (http://www.coledeteatredebarcelona.com) and Laboratorio Escuela (http://laboratorioescuela.es).