Place: Outside entrance to LABoral Centro de Arte

Time: 1 p.m.

“Lo imposible es desaparecer” is a performative reflection created by Lara Brown and Jonás de Murias that will be performed at LABoral Centro de Arte in collaboration with the festival Danza Gijón. The piece is based on the question: how is it possible that popular dances can come from so far back in time and appear in the present? Through the movements of Lara Brown, based on the steps of the Jota Serrana, and the voice of Jonás de Murias, who stretches and kneads the phonemes following the instructions of the researcher Justo del Río, the spectator will be able to travel through time to find the essence of that which endures in time.

Body and word intermingle in this performance creating a dialogue that ends in the distension of a code of its own languages and returns to the danced and sung jota as we know it. This exercise invites us to reflect on what it is that allows us to incorporate into a contemporary context the root movements and popular dances of centuries ago and also how the different ways of transmission influence their durability.

How is it possible that folk dances can come from so far back in time and appear in the present? Perhaps the bodies of the dancers are the vehicles through which these dances can travel through time. Sometimes the dances resist to be archived and we keep trying to draw them, to count them, to talk about them in order to freeze them somewhere. What is the need to archive something that happens differently each time? From one body to another these dances go trotting. Breathing a different air, a different climate, moving a different heart each time.

Jonás de Murias remixes sound material and lyrics from archives of traditional music and popular songs, transcending and rethinking the relationship between folklore and geography. From this mixture of sound and linguistic textures, he traces and re-signifies inherited cultural skills and traits that we are accustomed to relate to identity.

Lara Brown is an artist, choreographer and dancer born in Burgos, who has been making and performing her own pieces since 2017. She understands creation from movement research as a generator of a poetic gesture from thought and action.