CRA’P workshops 2014

We will tackle movement as sound writing of the body.

The use of breath when training physical connections in between the movement, the space and the voice, implies the un-blocking and the opening of internal circuits, which through them enables the flow and modulation of the energy to access the articulation of the body as a grammar (like an instrument resonator of a thinking feeling).

Will explore the multi-focality of the body, the movement textures (tactility), the development of perception, potenciality, movement places, the presence status as transparency.

When observing, what is moving you?

Conducted by Mónica Valenciano

Mónica Valenciano:  Dancer and choreographer. Studied classical and contemporary dance as well as theater at the Theatre Institute (Barcelona) and RESAD (Madrid). Completed her training with other disciplines: Yoga Iyengar, R. Laban, improvisation, boxing, archery, and T’ai chi ch’uan in Wudang (China).

Alongside her creative work, she develops through workshops and courses a personal line of pedagogy.

She has performed and created among others the following works: Aúpa, Puntos suspensivos, Miniaturas, Peso gallo. Having founded the company El Bailadero, performs and produces Adivina en Plata, and the series Disparates. Her work has been presented in theatre venues and festivals in Spain, Europe, USA and Canada. In 1999 the Festival Desviaciones displays a retrospective of her work, and in 2004 the Festival Escena Contemporánea in Madrid dedicates the cycle “Perfil” to her.

Together with La Ribot, Blanca Calvo, Elena Córdoba, Olga Mesa and Ana Buitrago, created the collective UVI (La inesperada).

She takes part in lectures about body writing, poetry readings, and does several exhibitions with her drawings as well.

In collaboration with Chus Domínguez is searching about the body language and the image in different artistic residences: ‘Un pescador con subtítulos’, ‘Impregnaciones en la Srta. Nieve y Guitarra’.

In 2012 she is awarded the National Prize for Dance from Spain.