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UNSEEN LANDSCAPES (Still and moving)

 

(work in progress)

 

SENSITIVE LANDSCAPES. MOVING SPACE.  SENSE OF PLACE

 

An exploration of movement outside conventional dance frameworks, incorporating industrial architecture, photography, illustration, sound and video.

Photography: Blanca Arrieta | Illustration: Leire Llano

Photography: Juan Félix Ruiz | Illustration: Robert Jackson

UNSEEN LANDSCAPES (Still and moving)  is an ongoing artistic project devised in one of the frameworks (“Artistic interventions in non-conventional contexts”) of the European program TrainArt 2019-22, with the mediation of Haceria Arteak (Bilbao).

 

The main objective is to link dance with other non-performing art forms. On this occasion, we associate dance to photography and illustration. To this end, we search for inspiration in the context of Industrial Heritage of the Basque Country, in its architecture. These beautiful architectural structures, or what remains of them, preserve the character and visual force, the mystery and the evidence of a past. It is in the act of re-imagining these places where we find the artistic possibilities.

We propose a study on the corporeal and poetic image, with the body, the space and the movement as the backbones of the proposal. The aim is to lead us into different imaginary and poetic states, using metaphors generated by the interaction between the body, the building and the landscape.

The creative process will continue throughout 2023 with dancers-performers Laura Cobo, Robert Jackson Oihana Vesga, photographer Juan Félix Ruiz, visual artist Leire Llano and KLEM Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music.

Photography: Blanca Arrieta | Illustration: Leire Llano

Gallery - Study images

Ajuria and Urigoitia industrial site in Araia, Álava

A reflection on the overlapping concepts of landscape-place-body-space.

 

We explore both the stillness and the movement that coexist in the captured image of a body, an object, elements of nature or a unique perspective of the space.

How the place merges with the environment, how it stands, how it separates from the surrounding nature. It is about materialising these sensations and making them tangible.

A space is a body, and a body is space. In this reciprocity, dimensions or elements such as mass, scale, weight, matter, structure and volume can be explored and brought into the artistic dialogue.

An exercise of abstraction. The observation of the place (body-landscape) and its surroundings.

 

Photography: Blanca Arrieta | Drawings: Robert Jackson

The project was initiated in August 2022 and  will be developed as two complementary lines of work: one is study and experimentation; and the other the creation-production of choreographic, visual (photography, illustration, video) and sound materials. All the stages of the creation process link and feed each other.

 

The artistic materials created will enable the devising and realization of an hybrid installation which will be presented to an audience at La Terminal FICC, an old factory itself reconverted into a cultural space in the island of Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao. The project will continue in 2023 with the last phase being the creation of a dance work, inspired by the reflection, exploration and all the artistic work generated during the development of the previous stages.

 

Landscape - Place - Space - Body

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Gravity

Distance

Weight

Touch

Dantzalabea residency- Barakaldo Theatre

7-12/11/2022

(First physical research week)

Photography: Juan Félix Ruiz

Proximity

Action

Observation

Interruption

Multiplicity

Projection

Periphery

Horizontality

Verticality

Focus

Ajuria and Urigoitia industrial site in Araia, Álava

Photography: Juan Félix Ruiz

Structure

Armature

Skeleton

Organic

(matter)

Inorganic

(matter)

Membrane

Layer

Skin

BONES

Poetry

Elasticity

Movement

Curvature

Transition

Degree

Texture

Density

BONES

Light

Colour

Depth

Tactile quality

Perception

Frontage

Density

Frame

Interiority

Intimacy

Distance

Momentum

Axis

Fall

(mysterious)

Chronology

Disorder

Stillness

Asymmetry

Inertia

Plane

Geometry

Dimension

Imbalance

Delay

Slope

Volume

Density

Scale

Surface

Gap

Silence

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Interior

Exterior

 

 

 

 

 

Rest

Movement

Curvature

Change

Rhythm

Alternation

Interchange

Continuity

Momentum

Tilt

 

Repetition

Repetition

Repetition

(right)

Angle

 

Intersection

Assembly

 

 

(body)

Mass

(spacial)

Arrangement

 

 

 

Form

 

Weight

Resonance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Variation

Dantzalabea residency- Barakaldo Theatre

6-10/02/2023

(Second physical research week)

Photography: Juan Félix Ruiz

Variation

Balance

Speed

 

Play

What we explore.

What we re-interpret.

What we construct (re-construct).

In hybrid processes work with the body is initially located in a diffuse, blurred place. The body is not "comfortable" until it finds its place or function. It needs to build relationships (of tension) with the rest of the elements in play. The body, the space and the building have common attributes that will be very useful in the course of the experimentation. The most obvious quality which they share is that all three bend before gravity.


We search for new tools and techniques which will help us in the process of building and producing movement in this hybrid context. How to facilitate a true translation and interaction of the materials?

Where does movement start?

 

What is its function?

 

How is it organised?

 

What relationships does it generate?

How should we organize dance, and what can dance become?

We articulate spaces, form and geometry.

We interact with the environment.​

Repeat a gesture,

it will resonate.

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