I am director, choreographer and presently doing a PhD in Dramaturgy for Circus, Scenic Space of arts hybridizations. Since 2000 my artistic work research movement and space dynamics in many forms in a transversal performing field. I research different transpositions between body language and the forces organizing space and rhythm of other art forms.
Besides an analytical approach towards the history of performative practice and its dramaturgy, I propose a physical practice approaching scenic arts as an exercise of risk through improvisation and presence. These methods I continuously expand by incorporating performers of different backgrounds that are prepared to react, as in circus, to a constantly shaping 360° space while pushing their physical limits and performance vocabulary.
FEATURED PROJECT
how some fundamentals in the acrobatic practice can be functionalized at the service of a dramatic writing, modeling dance and contemporary circus through each other.
The aim of Akrob@ is to work on a system of transfers between conceptual notions, techniques and physical possibilities for the performers, analyzing acrobatics and its movement in space from a mechanical, dynamic and poetic point of view.
It brings together it’s elements of origin to cross over into an innovative circus dramaturgy, focusing on acrobatic semiotics as an artistic form, emerging from itself without an existential need to borrow narratives from other arts to be complete.
"Acrobatics is a way of thinking the humanity, as well as the history of body practices and official art. Our current "acrobatic process" is expressed through a culture of rebellion and insurrection. The rejection of the docile, straight and conformed bodies plays with the principles of inversion, deformation, curvature, anamorphosis and balance, an apparent disorder translated into order. "To turn the body upside down", "to go to the end of the body".
Akros"acrobatics of the extremities" reveals a meaningful art of living, where performance is considered literally and metaphorically.” – Agate Dumont, homo acrobaticus.
After working as a performer for dance, circus and theatre companies such as Royal de Luxe, my work experience has constantly been developing throughout international residencies in collaborations with different multidisciplinary artists such as, Cie Willy Dorner, Armando Meniccaci, David Zambrano, Juha Marshalo, German Jauregui , Lenka Vagnerova, DOT 504, Tanek Praha, Circo Del Mundo, Diminuto Circus, National Ballet of Chile and National Ballet Ecuador amongst others.
I constantly develop theory and practical research workshops focusing on movement techniques, improvisation and creation, using a multidimensional and trans disciplinary methodology. This had lead to present my work in form lecturers, workshops and seminars in: DOCH, School of Dance and Circus-Uniarts Stokholme / Munster University, Germany / Ecole National des Arts Dramatiques, Montpellier / Centre des Arts de Cirque Balthazar, Montpellier / Central de Circ, Barcelona / Concordia University, Montreal, Universidad de Chile / Universidad Central de Ecuador / Circo del Mundo Chile, amongst others.