Crisálida

Programmed by Barcelona Districte Cultural

A body imprisoned in a terrarium that through dance takes in figures and images that push it towards a future as yet unnamed and unformed. With a hesitant dance, Crisálida is a proposal that sets out to blur the outlines of the human being, working elastically between recognizable images and as yet undiscovered bodies, to take in not only what is known, our exhausted present, but also what is unrecognizable and is yet to come. Paul Celan insisted on the dialogic nature of the poem (and by extension, of the arts in general), stating that the poem is always coming, always en route to something. To an open, occupiable thing, perhaps to an accessible You. The question we are pondering from the beginning is: what happens when this You is not accessible, but rather it has dried up, it has forgotten its essential ability to listen and welcome.

Antes Collado is a stage creator and dancer who is interested in thinking about choreographic writing through images and postures that go beyond the bounds of the conventional parameters of dance and the body. He researches poetic ways of expounding and looking at the relationship between the human, the animal and the natural landscape. Self-taught in sporting ballroom dancing and urban and contemporary dance, he is also a pilates machine instructor and practises Ashtanga yoga mysore. Parallel to his artistic creation, he coordinates the Paisaje festival in his home town, Villamalea (Albacete). He has presented his work in contexts like the Venice Dance Biennale, the Quinzena Metropolitana de la dansa in Barcelona, the Dansa València festival, the Trajectes festival, the American Dance Festival in the USA, the Nuit Blanche festival in Brussels, Cádiz en Danza, the Sismògraf festival, the Beijing Dance Festival and the Jerusalem International Dance Week, among others. Antes Collado also works with Ça Marche, a theatre company based in Barcelona.