Paz Rojo
Lo que baila – That which dances
Photo: Carlos Pascual
We 9.11.2022, 20:00-21:00, MDT
“That which dances is a found form. A trace, a residue that asks to be enjoyed unselfishly, in spite of myself. That which dances has no relation to me. It requires attention outside all the categories that I could impose on it. That which dances is what stays or remains. That which resists. What persists irrationally: a surface, a rhythm, a dream. The rest of the organ that was printed on the floor. The hand resting the second. The gorge through which I fall in awe. The corner where I decide to stay, where I decide to die. The bonfire you contemplate. The ashes of a remembered craft. A secret. A dance whispering an incomprehensible message. That which dances is almost dead. It is already gone. All that remains afterwards:”. Paz Rojo
The piece proposes a mode of operation that is ingrained in the field of dance. Bringing something that is not here, because it has already been and because by not being, it dives into what is to come.
The coherence and insistence of Paz’s work has generated vast and fruitful constellations, traversed by questions about what dance does and the affective, political and aesthetic framework of choreography and its relation to the forces and impulses of the capitalist system, with the aim of delving into the possibility of a mode of subjectification withdrawn from its regime of value production.
Paz Rojo
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.
Concept, dance & soundscape design
Sound edition
Light and sound technician
With support of
Festival Domingo curated by Fernando Gandasegui, La Casa Encendida 2021, (Madrid), and the performing arts residency programmes of C.C.C CondeDuque (Madrid) and Köttinspektionen Dans (Uppsala).
Thank you to
Los Barros (Carlos Marquerie and Elena Córdoba), Begoña Hernández, Norberto Llopis, Ancor Luján.
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