CRA’P Collaborations 2025
Sunday 27 April at 19h
Theatre Can Gomà – Mollet del Vallès
CRA’P presents “El lugar de los pasos perdidos” a performance by Mónica Valenciano
There is a place of remembrance where the previous steps resound in the present, a potential space where presence happens as a place of a-appearance, something comes forth in that palpitating plot…between the steps that time suspends, the body moves carried by that which it brings, a polyphony of voices in the voice. There where a call plays in us, we hear the language that burns, the crumbling question dances its lostness…emergencies of a time that we ignore at the same time.
Artistic credits
Corpography and performance: Mónica Valenciano
Music – fragment: Bach – Sonata nº 9 A Major for violin and piano Op. 47
Lighting Design: Cristina Libertad
Accompaniment in residency of creation: Raquel Sánchez – Cristina Carroquino – Chefer Cuneo – Maria Escobar.
Spaces of Residence in Collaboration: Ensalle Theatre (Vigo) – CasaVella (Ourense) – L’animal a la Esquena (Girona) – Espacio en Blanco (Madrid) – Casa Encendida (Madrid) – Escena 311 (Madrid)
Tickets sale:
Online: https://molletvalles.koobin.com
Cultural centre La Marineta (Pl. De l’Església, 7, from Monday to Friday from 15.30h till 21h)
Theatre Can Gomà: at box-office, the same day one hour before the performance, if tickets available.
Fee: 5 €
Mónica Valenciano is winner of the 2012 National Dance Award in the category of Creation.
Degree in Dance and Drama – from the Theatre and Dance Institute of Barcelona – and the RESAD of Madrid. Continuing her training with different courses, among others – Improvisation Dance with (Katie Duck) – Archery – Qigong – Afro-Peruvian Rhythm with (Victoria Santa Cruz) – R. Laban Technique with (Pilar Urreta) – Boxing – Yoga (Iyengar) – Kathak Dance in Benares (India) – Flamenco beat (Madrid) – and Tai Chi in The Traditional School of Wudang (China). She has been part of the Collective – “U.V.I – La Inesperada”. Pradillo Community – and of the Group of shared practices – “misión divina”.
She dances… as someone digging into the body, un-blocking, opening new circuits that might enable access to the listening of her voice.
Exploring through body-graphic writing – the breath of movement – the acoustics of gesture – multifocality of the body – the unfolding body in its polyphony and relational possibilities . Witnessing the discovery of textures, tonalities, skills and qualities that emerge from a continuous process of disclosure.
Capturing the happening itself, from this listening to the body-movement as an instrument and place of resonance, from the formulation of a language that does not try to explain anything, but involves us in the convocation of this encounter …By cultivating a state of presence that resonates intimately through the spectator.
She investigates the ability to inhabit any space – to learn to accompany time – to free the voice of the body hidden in the dancing body – to be in the air of any movement… in this way to disappear better and better, to allow something to appear be-comes almost the essential movement.
In this journey she has transited through different stations, giving rise to different pieces and rehearsals. Among others: The series of the 9 “Disparates” (inspired by Goya’s engravings), Canción Laberinto, Un Pescador con subtítulos, Impregnaciones en la Srta Nieve y Guitarra, Borrado En-Canto, Imprenta Acústica en (14 borrones ) de una aparición produced by Naves MATADERO (Madrid), with the collaboration of L’animal a la Esquena (Girona), Teatro Ensalle (Vigo), Estudio 3 (Madrid), Mnemosyna in collaboration with Patricia Caballero produced by La Poderosa, Festival Salmon (Mercat de les Flors), Espacio Silvestre (El Graner). Barcelona. Month of dance. Seville. Es luna llena en la cicatriz, produced by NAVES MATADERO in collaboration with the visual artist Elena del Rivero and curated by Mateo Feijoo.
In addition to video works: Srta Nieve y Guitarra made by Chus Domínguez. Octava Errante a commission by Pedro G. Romero, Ensayos para Nada y Ave a commission by Javier Corcovado, the film He venido a Leer la Noche directed by Manuel F.Valdés (produced by NAVES MATADERO), the documentary La Voz del Cuerpo, directed by Marta Blanco, as a register of a rehearsal journal about the process of “Imprenta Acústica en ..(14 borrones ) ..de una Aparición”.
Also, various publications. Texts and drawings: Disparates – published by PLIEGOS de TEATRO y DANZA – (Antonio F.Lera). Música en los huesos – published by – LA LUZ ROJA. Diarios de una estación – published by – LA PORTA. Cuadernos de la nave – edited by – LA LUZ ROJA. Un pescador con subtítulos – edited by – ESCRITO A LÁPIZ. La voz del cuerpo – edited by – PLIEGOS DE TEATRO Y DANZA – (Antonio F.Lera). Currently being edited: El Cuerpo como lugar de Aparición – Ediciones DocumentA/Escénicas – (Gabriela Halac).
Her works have been shared in different festivals in Spain, Europe, USA and Latin America.
She continues a line of creation and research in collaboration with “El Bailadero – G.I.B.”, as well as giving Workshops and Sessions for the Master of creation (Universidad Carlos III), or shared practices with other artists.
Photos: Alba Montañez