A danced practice/a dance session/a space for listening and reflection around the training of a body.
To train and understand the body and all the materials it contains and that accompany us in the act of dancing. To strengthen its possibilities and potential, opening a sensitive knowledge and a deep listening around attention, perception, experimentation, and our disposition toward dance.
The practice unfolds as a physical training of the body around three axes that intertwine throughout:
The objective (or the closest possible to an objectivity). Physical parameters concerning the body, space, and rhythm that help us relate and provide us with tools to move through different dynamics, tones, textures, structures, and directions of the body.
The subjective. To reveal the deep layers and sensitive knowledge contained in the body through listening and perception.
The other. Work around that which is also happening but cannot be named: the invisible, failure.
Led by
Carmela Muñoz. Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher, graduated from the CSD of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She develops her professional career as a performer in companies such as Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé, José Manuel Álvarez, La Fura dels Baus, and Juan Carlos Lérida. Since 2017, driven by her own artistic inquiry, she has expanded her trajectory as a creator with works such as Catalina Mía, Bailes de Histéricas, and Invocation. She has received the First Choreography Prize and the Outstanding Dancer Award for Catalina Mía in several Madrid choreography competitions (2017–2018). In 2021, she received the Best Performer Award for Estudio sobre la histeria at the 15m2 Festival; in 2022, the Best Performer Award at the PAD Andalucía Awards for her participation in the piece Origen; and in 2023, the Best Piece in a Non-Conventional Space Award at the PAD Andalucía Awards for Invocation.
Committed to dance research, she is part of Estancias Coreográficas in Oviedo, the Flamenco Research Laboratory at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, and develops a research project in dance, flamenco, and live arts titled Invocaciones boleras o la danza de las desposeídas. She is currently at the CSD of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and teaches creation workshops in different cities around Spain.
