Loenor Leal y Natalia Jiménez Mesdedanza26
AULA is a work about the learning processes in dance that takes place inside the premises of the University, and a transformative experience for the audience.
It is an exploration into the writing of movement towards the unveiling of some of the mysteries around how the body is inscribed in space, how body movement is transmitted to other bodies.
The audience is summoned (displaced) to a classroom inside the University of Seville (the old Tobacco Factory) to see a show. We work with this site-specific format keeping very much in mind the inherent memory of this educational space.
The question of dance is introduced in the context of a class, in order to create an analogy between Theatre and The Academic. Through this deconstructed class device, essential topics emerge, making room to another possible reality of knowledge.
The sound design connects the viewer permanently with the architecture of the classroom, while the bodies of the dancers seek strategies (separately and together) aimed at transcending the symbolic universe that surrounds them.
AULA builds a new narrative of the bodies, where interruption, pivoting, the classroom's real sound, those generated by the dancers, etc., coexist as parts of the same story.
THE FORGOTTEN BODY
We propose a trip back to the language (and vocabulary) of bodies, to investigate dance as an essential element in the recovery of a non-exclusively verbal communication (“transmission of knowledge through intellectual processes”) in the socio-educational field. This practice provides us with tools to be selective with information, to integrate what we choose as experiences, to gain autonomy in our way of receiving and transmitting knowledge, to increase self-confidence in bodily knowledge and the ability to work in groups, to facilitate the creation of our own reality and to share knowledge from our subjectivity and towards the collective.
A CREATION OF
JOSE LUIS DE BLAS AND NATALIA JIMÉNEZ GALLARDO
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CREATOR
LEONOR LEAL AND SOUND ARTIST JUAN DIEGO CALZADA