Sunday, September 10, from 19:00
AT THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST

Supported by the German Cultural Centre Timișoara

Idea and direction: Flor Firvida Martin
Language: English
Archive camera record: Nayeli Benhumea
Sound advice: Ismael Méndez

This research was carried out within the framework of the project Immaterial Cities. Situated thinking and theatrical practice (320972) financed by CONACyT.

Based on a personal experience in a city at war, questions are mobilized around violence and the possibilities of existence in different contexts. In Reynosa, Mexico, this audiovisual choreographic archive of corporal interviews was born. This archive compiles physical and oral accounts of memories, emotions and experiences around violence and power from women and feminized bodies in various cities in Latin America.

How do you feel the violence? What is potency? What can a body do, feel or think in a particular environment? How to expand what we can?

This archive is constituted through a device of danced interviews, where I invite both movement artists or people with no experience in bodywork, to answer questions from the body in movement, appealing to memory and body knowledge. What is the value of a movement archive? Can the body in movement provide information on social reality? How can a dance archive be perceived if not through sight?

Despre Flor Firvida Martin (AR/MX)

Researcher, choreographer and performer. Master in Social Sciences and Humanities (UAM-C) Mexico. She graduated in Choreographic Composition in Dance-Theater (National University of the Arts) Argentina. In her work she investigates the relationships between body, territory and community from an expanded approach, fostering the encounter of dance, performance, video, and methodologies of the social sciences that become formats such as installation, video essay or lectured performance.

She writes about the prosities between art, politics and aesthetics.

She directed Territorio Abierto, an Urban Space Performance Festival, and was coordinator in Casa Belgrado, an international residency space in Buenos Aires. She currently provides work consultancies, dictates workshops of choreography, feminisms and performative practices. She co-directs CUICLI, an itinerant project of artistic residences, and integrates the research project Immaterial Cities, theatrical practices and situated thought.