Cuerpas

Cuerpas is a collective and rebellious body, a mass of pure rhythm, always in contact. A kind of obstacle, a perambulation in the middle of the crowd... Through dance, the piece plays at blocking and celebrating. In the street, bodies open up to the possibility of being slippery and porous boundaries—with oneself, with others, with space. What if, through contact, a fluid barrier emerged? One that says no and fights back, within this moving mass, constantly reorganizing itself? Cuerpas is inspired by the ways of protesting, forming groups, and taking a stand in Chile and Latin America. It is at once a moving and sensual area of passage, a space of resistance and celebration; it is rage and laughter, care and irruption into public space.A cry after a long wait, an inexhaustible dance...

Followed by a DJ set from Hot Bodies.

Marcela Santander Corvalán

Born in Chile, Marcela Santander Corvalán trained at the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan, and subsequently at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers (under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh). Alongside her training, she studied history at the University of Trento in Italy and obtained a bachelor’s degree in dance from the University of Paris 8. Since 2011, she has worked as a performer with choreographers Dominique Brun, Faustin Linyekula, Julie Nioche, Ana Rita Teodoro, Volmir Cordeiro and Mylène Benoit, and as an artistic collaborator with Mickaël Phelippeau and Tania El Khoury.
As a choreographer, Marcela Santander Corvalán draws on archives and memory to create fictional, collective and emancipatory narratives. In 2015, she wrote the duet Époque with Volmir Cordeiro, followed by the solo Disparue in 2016. In 2018, she developed a cycle exploring the theme of listening, for which she created two pieces, Quietos (2019) and the lecture-performance Concha, histoires d’écoute (2020), alongside art historian and performer Hortense Belhôte and musician Gérald Kurdian. In 2021, she began a trilogy on mythologies. The first part, Bocas de Oro, premiered in 2023 at La Manufacture in Bordeaux, followed in 2025 by Agwuas at the Briqueterie CDCN in Val-de-Marne. Fuegos will conclude the trilogy in 2027. Marcela regularly works in various venues, festivals, art schools and theatres, leading workshops or long-term participatory projects; including Cuerpas, Nous inventer and L’École de l’imagination.