Paz Rojo is a choreographer, dancer and researcher. Her work unfolds at the interface of artistic practices, choreography and philosophy. The practices, tools and concepts that form the backbone of her research have unfolded in different formats: meetings, research contexts, her doctoral dissertation (the artistic research PhD at Stockholm University of the Arts titled “The decline of choreography and its movement: a body’s (path)way”), curatorships — such as “¿Qué puede un cuerpo?” at La Casa Encendida (2014 and 2015), collective choreographic experiments, video-essays, a book titled “To Dance in the Age of No-Future,” and stage creations such as her latest work, “ECLIPSE : MUNDO.”
Produced in 2019, “ECLIPSE : MUNDO” approaches dance and the stage apparatus through the concept of a “plane of destituting perception,” something Paz develops in her research and links to the possibility of contemplating the not-yet-produced. In “ECLIPSE : MUNDO,” she experiments with a practice of movement as aesthetic experience, and with the possibility of letting this practice continue to be a practice despite its scenic context. It is a piece that brings together — and in a way ties up, albeit provisionally — notions in which she had been delving into since her solo “Lo que sea moviéndose así.” whose principles ended up being the genesis of the practices that have informed the long-term research in which she was immersed from 2011 to 2020. With Lo que baila (That which dances) Rojo starts a new research period.