space

SPACE

This section includes two related projects.

Spacial Events (2014-2015)

A series of actions (in-situ interventions), which performatively reviews and explore questions posed by contemporary sculpture about volume, weight, presence. In what way could the displacement or expansion of post-minimalist sculpture, towards action and the environment, contribute symbolically and semiotically to the scenic space of performance and choreography?

Interventions (2008-2013)

An investigation into the ways to modify the viewer's posture and movement through the intervention of spaces, actions, instructions, or objects.

DRAWING THE SPACE

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 1. 15:00 min)

Translation (reinterpretation) of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings into three-dimensional space.

Instructions:

Choose 3 points in space

Extend them to form different lines,

Inhabiting the lines until the volume, size, weight of the space appear

Three performers, each with an elastic cord (which has the same extension as the intervened space: 70 m), extend lines that give shape to the irregularities of the terrain, creating a network of small spaces that enclose and frame the performers and to the spectators; both, with the movement they make to cross the network, appear with the movement, the volume and the depth of the space.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

STONES

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 2. 15:00 min)

10 elastic cords are attached to a 15-meter-long wall, each carrying a 1/2-kilo stone tied at its end. Some performers must adapt the body to cross between the strings, while others play with the weights of the stones and change their position, modifying the configurationof the space between the strings -the drawing-, making it very difficult to cross.

It is a continuation of the translation of the drawings by Sol LeWitt; now it has been integrated into space through the amplified sound of gestures and objects, rhythm and speed of actions. The inhabited drawing space has become dynamic and changing.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

WALL VS BALLS

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 3. 15:00 min)

Instructions:

Stand in front of a 25 meter high wall.

Take a small ball and throw it past the other side of the wall

Several performers are in front of a 25 m high wall (theater box outside), they are instructed to pass a ball on the other side of the wall. They make various efforts during 15 minutes. Finally, the ball remains in the hands of the spectator who decides whether to attempt the instruction or not.

Bruce Nauman walks squarely through his study repeatedly until the volume of a cube appears; Richard Long walks over and over again through a patch of grass until he pierces the ground, creating a sculptural piece with his body. Here we are thinking about the repetitive actions that, in their insistence, make matter appear.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

MEASURES

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 4. 15:00 min)

Five performers must measure the space dimensions of a cube-shaped space with the parts of their body. They must write down the results obtained on the floor and walls, until they have covered all the surfaces that make up the site.

The action recalls again the sculptural exercises that transfer the appearance of volume, matter and the weight of space to the actions of the body.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

EQUIVALENCES

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 5. 15:00 min)

In the theater lobbie, a wide space, five performers put on different clothes and shoes, one on top of the other, and while they go through the space they strip them off, leaving them as traces of the passage of their bodies and their dimensions in contrast to the height and extension of the place.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

STELLA HALL

2015 - Choreographic intervention

(Spacial Event no. 6. 15:00 min)

Several sheets of paper placed on the floor and anchored by stones, limit a 50 cm wide corridor through which four performers must pass. The instruction for them is: Advance one by one without separating from the other bodies.

Spectators will have to follow the performers down the narrow hall to watch the event. This intervention recovers from Frank Stella's installations (made with metal plates on the floor), the way in which they transform the circulation and perception of space in a three-dimensional way, being two-dimensional.

Work presented at the National Center for the Arts

on a tour around the Flores Canelo Theater

Bachelor on Choreography,

Nacional School of Classic and Contemporary Dance, INBA

INTERVENTIONS

2005 -2013

(Instalations' series)

Series of sculptural interventions that seek to modify the perception, placement, and action of the viewer by minimally modifying the surrounding space, and with the minimum use of plastic or sculpture material.

The sculptural presence appears in the interaction between the body of the spectator and the intervention, as well as the volume, weight, scale of both the piece and the observer

Work presented at different galleries, museums,

alternative spaces, and public spaces