CRA’P residents June 2016

SOFT ASSOCIATIONS

Soft and hard is not a binary relationship; instead, it is the myriad of potentials in one body. Since bodies are neither hard nor soft alone, the body is a cultural and epistemic artifact.  By attempting to define what a fit, hard body can do, we question the hegemony of its aesthetic value in dance.

The value of the female body in the realm of dance is dependent on its ability to fulfill an aesthetic of productivity. We seek to create an illusion of the grandeur of softness in both movement and installation and reveal the economy of our own female identifying bodies and thus become agents of our own flesh, creating a lens through which the standard of beauty can be deconstructed.

Kata Cots and Liv Fauver have come together in an international exchange out of a need to question cultural norms surrounding contemporary dance in different countries.

Liv Fauver is a choreographer and dancer currently residing in Seattle, WA, USA. She received her Bachelor of Arts in dance and chemistry from Smith College in Massachusetts and was a resident artist in 2014 with the mexican contemporary dance company Delfos. She has also danced with the Tinydance Project, Melder Dance and in the works of Adam Barruch, Mizraim Araujo, Paul Matteson, Monica Bill Barnes, Andrea Miller and Zoe Scofield. Her piece (w)here has been presented at Velocity Dance Center in the USA and at The José Limón Festival, Border Dance Festival and the Delfos Dance Company School in Mexico.

Kata Cots researches dance practices and is a professional contemporary dancer and teacher. She is of Spanish and American nationality and has performed and taught in Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and India. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico, a metropolis on the border with the United States where she has collaborated with different companies and artists during the last six years. She is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® in somatic education by The Feldenkrais Guild ® of North America and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (New York) in Dance and Cultural & Political Anthropology. Her most recent work Güera ( which means sexy white girl in Mexico) was created during a creative residency in Tijuana with the dance company Péndulo Cero and Toni Cots.