Frankenstein also has a soul
When we put something together using pieces from different sources which are of various textures and colours, the result is a deformed mass full of seams that has no harmony. Similarly, a bailaor [dancer] who structures their dance using the steps and choreography of other maestros, are creating an orthopaedic discourse based on a vocabulary that is not their own. And instead of being organic, their movements will therefore be segmented.
With time, personal maturity and the necessary introspection, the artist manages to unite these parts, which used to be empty, and fill them with meaning. It is through internal acceptance and freeing ourselves from our subservience to cliché, that the amalgam of inert gestures can pass through the filter of our personal experience and come to life. Then it is our own work. Beauty arises and the beast fades away through the assimilation of imperfection. Now, Frankenstein has a soul.
On this occasion, Andrés Marín and Aina Núñez have come together for an exercise of mutual learning. A unique bailaor of renowned prestige and a young, talented bailaora converse through dance, from the perspective of performance, about what is necessary and what is not, what is one's own and what is inherited, what is real and what is merely apparent. In short, about the dilemmas facing all artists throughout their careers, raising and resolving questions about their inescapable personal trajectories.