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A i t a n a C o r d e r o
w o r k s h o p - e x p e r i e n c e
I N S T R U C T I O N S T O F O R G E T 2
L E T ' S F A C E T H E T W O - I N G
t h e r u l e s o f e n c o u n t e r i n g ,
t h e 1 0 0 k i s s e s a n d
t h e u p d a t i n g b o d y
An intensive workshop, a physical and intellectual investigation where technique and practise will be the main protagonists. I propose a place where to erase the “memories of the body” and where to find, provoke, generate and question different ways to meet.
I'm interested in the physi(mind)cal practise of the updating body. A body always investing, aware, playful and highly sensitive. A body in constant discovering and letting go. Always seeding and harvesting. Always contributing, present, accessible and forgetting. I look for that body, and then for the moment when that body meets another body.
Lets look for, face, explore, question, dance, fight, discuss, survive, discover, break, enjoy and rediscover again and again an encounter. Let's dissect the duo format. Let's number two, is it one plus one?, is it five minus three? Lets share the "meet-ing".
We will sweat, move, think, talk, meditate, dance, fight, fly, train, move, work, walk, walk, walk, walk, touch, taste, talk, walk, touch, touch touch touch again and be touched by things and little events.
And, We will try forget. Once I wrote: "Trying to forget, trying to “not remember” how the body is perceived, how it is supposed to behave, how it use to move and to relate with other bodies. Trying to forget as a strategy to become available and to redefine “body”, body movement and body encounters. Exploring the limits of the unknown and negotiating with the weight and the “power” of the known. Looking for the loss, looking for getting lost, as a rich and productive state... The loss as a state of change, as a beginning, as a research. Loosing the control, loosing the shape, losing the expectations, losing the meanings... the body just as a territory, the anatomy as a continent to visit, the skin as a meeting point".
We will get into the work through an energetic routine of exercises, improvisations, experiments, duo and group works within different spaces, contexts and situations.
AITANA CORDERO (ESP/NL, 1979) is a mover, a curious, a wonderer, a reader, a Gemini, a cook, a mother.
She likes to investigate bodies and theatre, to perform and to create. She is called performing arts Maker or Choreographer, but she is looking for a better definition. She is 37 but looks like 15, she writes in 3 languages, she would like to paint and climb but she doesn't, she faints in blood tests, almost always but still fantasise, almost every year, with study medicine and become a doctor one day. She trained many years dance and improvisation. She did Judo intensively in the past and has always been busy with martial arts.
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 creates her own work like dance pieces, installations, performances, films, gastronomic proposals and "things" that have been presented in several cities in Europa, North America and Asia. She also performs for others. Since 2001 she combines her creations and artistic works with teaching in different universities and schools and lately she is a reflective company - a dramaturge in other´s makers work. 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 and fighting, 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 cooking.
Lately she is preparing a marathon, trying to be a pilot, she is back to study martial arts and is again afraid of electric storms.
For more information about projects, artistic statements and other written material: www.aitanacordero.com or
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