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...

Marcela Santander Corvalán

Born in Chile, Marcela Santander Corvalán trained in Milan and then at the CNDC in Angers. She also graduated in history and dance from the University of Paris 8. Since 2011 she has been working alongside choreographers Dominique Brun, Faustin Linyekula, Julie Nioche, Ana Rita Teodoro and Volmir Cordeiro. Her collaboration with choreographer Mickaël Phelippeau included the artistic direction of À domicile, in Guissény, Brittany. Since 2014 she has put her name to Époque with Volmir Cordeiro (2015), her first solo Disparue (2016), MASH with Annamaria Ajmone (2017), and Quietos(2019). In 2020 she co-authored the performed conference CONCHA – Histoires d’écoute on the theme of listening, with Hortense Belhôte. Marcela Santander Corvalán was associate artist at the Quartz theatre in Brest from 2014 to 2017 and is currently at La Manufacture, CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux La Rochelle.