Darío Bardam’s solo, seguir moviendo, is an open dance work created as part of his Master’s studies at the choreography department of the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany.
19.00 – dance performance (tickets 7/9 €)
D. BARDAM: SEGUIR MOVIENDO
20.00 – lecture (free entry) / Upper foyer
Christopher Roman: INSIDER/OUTSIDER: Dancing Queer Authorship
The work is open in terms of his artistic movement choices, which he is constantly negotiating in order to escape the quick and embodied solutions of the dancer’s bodily repertoire. Bardam’s task is above all how to deal with the contradiction of being both the author and the performer of a solo: how to surprise oneself and how to incorporate at the same time into the performance the things that his artistic body already contains. How to refresh, recast, erase, undo, dismantle and reassemble a work when the author and the performer are one and the same person. The solo is notable for Bardam’s masterful dancing, a locationality that is not theatricalized, and a conceptual setup that equates artistic presentation with practice.
In the choreographer’s own words: “space is constantly doubled, like in a Möbius strip. time is stretched, like in the edges of a black hole. navigating language through rhythm, like Truffaut trying to decipher the tongue of aliens in Close Encounters. a body always in motion even if stationary, like the chariot card in tarot. space, time, rhythm and movement as access keys to planets, galaxies or nebulas. a dancing solo so full of bodies. it opens cracks, it pushes matter”.
Choreography and performance: Darío Bardam
Dance thought together with Gry Tingskog
Dance informed by the dancing of Anna Grip, Cristina Caprioli, Deborah Hay and Lipi Hernández (among many others)
Music: Darío Bardam & Tsvetan Momchilov
Light design: Carina Premer
Collaboration and support: Aleksandar Georgiev
Produced by Darío Barreto Damas within the frame of Roots Proposals (Performance festival by and with students of Choreography and Performance, Giessen). Coproduced by ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) and Garage Collective with the financial support of the National Cultural Fund of Bulgaria and Giessener Hochschulgesellschaft (GHG).
Darío Bardam is a Canarian freelance dancer who works in the field of dance and choreography. He works simultaneously in Stockholm, Sofia, Skopje and Tenerife. His artistic work revolves around the emancipation and autonomy of dance as a form of knowledge and the decontextualization and disidentification as artistic mediation mechanisms. He studied at the Teatro Victoria, Institut del Teatre and DOCH. He is currently studying a Master in Choreography and Performance at Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, directed by Bojana Kunst. Darío has worked as a dancer, co-creator and collaborator with Cullberg, (with productions by Édouard Lock, Deborah Hay and Jefta van Dinther), Cristina Caprioli, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Aleksandar Georgiev and Philip Berlin among others. Darío is a member of ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center), STEAM ROOM, Lokomotiva, Nomad Dance Academy network, Interimkultur, PiedeBase and TenerifeLAV Laboratorio de Artes vivas y Ciudadanía.
Christopher Roman: INSIDER/OUTSIDER: Dancing Queer Authorship, lecture
Christopher Roman is a dancer, choreographer, curator and researcher with an impressive oeuvre. He was invited into the ranks of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and as a soloist and principal with Edward Villella’s Miami City Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company (since 2013 also its Associate Artistic Director and today on the Board of Trustees for the Forsythe Foundation), performing a prolific and diverse array of important choreographic works. Christopher was co-founder, choreographer and performer for the company 2+ with former Wooster Group video designer Philip Bussmann. He is the 2009 recipient of Germany’s highest theatre honour Der Deutsche Theaterpreis DER FAUST for Best Performance. Among other things, he was the curator and organizer for the MFA in Dance, European Study Program at Hollins University (2011-2020), and since 2011 a guest, adjunct faculty and choreographer in residence at various Universities and Institutions, a dance artist and Artistic Director of the DANCE ON Ensemble (2015). In recent years he has toured a new evening created with William Forsythe for Sadler’s Wells titled A Quiet Evening of Dance and collaborated with Deborah Hay as a dancer and producer of her work Animals on the Beach. He is currently finishing up his PhD with Roehampton University in London.
More information: https://choreographic-turn.net/CT-7
Organisation: NDA Slovenija and Kino Šiška.
