A body alone on stage with 68 objects that constantly change meanings and appearance. They become lovers, friends, things, figures, landscapes. The piece is a study on the domestic and the spectacular. The performer is always in movement, updating her presence and desires. Destroying beauty as a constructive technique, erasing nostalgia as a defense mechanism. How would you finish an end?

Departing from the disorder, collecting as a method...

SOLO...? is collaboration between fears, desires, inabilities, possibilities, doubts and curiosity... Trying to expand and question the hierarchies of perception and understanding, trying to play with the expectations and promises of a theatrical event. 

"This became the kind of piece that needs no explanation at all.

It was the intensity of the action itself that communicated a crazy desire 

to be loved and used and rejected all at once"

"There is destruction, and a great deal of it,

but it is executed in a careful, premeditated manner.

Cordero brings on this impression with a very accurate sense of timing and intensity"

"That was on the thin line between theater and reality,

but verging towards the latter"

 

NB! Aitana is also one of the teachers of notafe this year!

CHECK HER WORKSHOP

AITANA CORDERO (Spain/Netherlands, 1979)

Aitana is a choreographer, performing art maker and a performer.

She trained for many years in dance and improvisation. She did Judo for 13 years in the past and she is still investigating and studying other martial arts such as Tui Shou (the Chinese martial art also known as "pushing hands).

In June 2006 she graduated in her choreography studies at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in the University of Amsterdam and in June 2008 she finished the Master in choreography and new technologies Dance‐Unlimited also in Amsterdam. 

Since 1999 she has created her own work, performs for other makers and collaborates with different artists in multidisciplinary projects.

Her pieces and video works have been shown in Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Brussels, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, Antwerp, Shanghai, Nueva York, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Beirut among other places.

From 2001 she have given workshops and classes in different schools, Universities and venues in Madrid, Paris, London, Beirut and Amsterdam. 

Some of the recurring interests in her works are the body and how it can encounter other bodies, intimacy, sex(n)uality, the physicality of violence, strategies of sharing and the exploration of the protocols of theatre.

Other relevant interests that use to condition her processes are philosophy, cinema, literature, gender studies, painting and food.

Lately she's been busy preparing for a marathon. 

For more information

www.aitanacordero.com

We are highly grateful to the Spanish Embassy in Tallinn!