Amaranta Velarde
15 July 2019 – 19 July 2019
Amaranta Velarde begins her dance studies in Oviedo, continues in Madrid and graduates from CODARTS, Rotterdam University of Dance (2004).
After her professional activity in Holland she moves in 2011 to Barcelona where she starts her own choreographic projects: Lo Natural, Hacia una estética de la buena voluntad and Mix-en-scene, presented in places like Escena Poblenou, Alt Vigo, MUSAC de León, el Mercat de las Flores, Arts Santa Mónica, Festival Grec, Respirations Paris and Brigittines Brussels.
In addition to her own projects, she works for artists such as Pere Faura, Cristina Blanco, Conde de Torrefiel and Ola Maciejewska and has been a member of the ARTAS collective at La Poderosa (2013- 2016).
Project in residence
Apariciones sonoras
The starting point of the project focuses on the investigation of the possible choreographic and plastic dimensions of sound. The aim is to create an experience close to the phenomenon of synaesthesia, where sound acquires form and plasticity and the body and objects acquire sonority. Synaesthesia consists of joining two images or sensations coming from different sensory domains, as for example when we say the colour green is garish.
Staging what is seen by sounding and heard by looking. The plastic capacity of sound and synaesthesia is constructed through the conjunction of the elements body-object-sound relating and affecting each other. Transferring concepts of sonority, spatiality, corporeality and temporality from one element to another.
Artistic Team:
Concept and interpretation Amaranta Velarde
Sound design Amaranta Velarde in collaboration with Cristobal Saavedra a.k.a. Equipo
External eye: Cris Blanco
