Amaranta Velarde and Alba G. Corral
13 October 2015 – 21 October 2015
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.
Apart from realizing her projects she works for creators such as Pere Faura, Cristina Blanco, Conde de Torrefiel and Ola Maciejewska and has been part of the ARTAS collective of La Poderosa (2013- 2016).
https://amarantavelarde.wordpress.com/
Alba G. Corral is an artist and creative technologist. With a background in computer engineering, Corral has been creating art using software for the past decade. Her practice spans across live, video, digital media and installation. Through different artistic practices he explores abstract narratives and expresses sensitivity and a taste for color. By combining generative systems with improvisational drawing techniques, digital language becomes organic and creates fascinating digital landscapes.
His name has become known through his live audiovisual performances where he integrates coding and elaboration, in collaboration with musicians in real time. He has performed with the likes of Jon Hopkins, Miguel Marin (aka Arbol), Fibla and Stendhal Syndrome. Corral’s work has been showcased at festivals and events such as Futuro Todo, Alpha-ville Festival, Sonar, Primavera Sound and L.E.V. Festival.
Project in residence
Mix-en-scene
Amaranta Velarde and Alba G. Corral work during their residency at LABoral in a new phase of development of Mix-en-scene, a project originally initiated by Amaranta Velarde and developed in a first artistic residency at LABoral with the aim of presenting an acoustic-choreographic experience for the viewer.
In this new phase of Mix-en-scene, the artist and creative technologist Alba G. Corral joins the project to contribute to the investigation of the strategies of edition, accumulation, juxtaposition, dislocation and discontinuity in the materials, with the intention of creating a composition between body, action, audio and other scenic elements that make possible new structures and versions of the historical materials.
In this way, Mix-en-scene proposes an acoustic, visual and choreographic experience for the spectator, where the performer-dancer-dj plays live as well as dances and performs choreographic scores accompanied by visual pieces generated in real time.
The result is an acoustic and visual session that reproduces, versions and mixes (sampled) historical and iconic fragments of dance, music and visuals. The proposal makes a journey that experiments with chronology, the overlapping of styles and artistic principles, using post-production strategies and the Dj spirit of appropriation, manipulation and versioning of materials.
