valeria


Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I moved to Amsterdam in February 2001 and changed for Berlin in December 2007.

My regular training is based on qi gong, Alexander technique and BMC and includes ballet, release, floor and improvisation techniques.

Since my graduation in 2005 I have been working for other artists as well as creating my own pieces.

In my work include dance, performance and photography in a process that integrates the body with its environment and its experiences of change.

I have been a resident artist at

Akiyoshidai International Arts Village in Yamaguchi, Japan, creating the work PUBLIC BODY and performing at the same venue and at Imaichi Studio, Yamaguchi and at Asterl Plaza, Hiroshima –Japan ( Jaunary – march 2010)

MIKS company in London, creating the work [FEVER] (September- November 2009), presented at LABAN theater, Croydon Clocktower last November ,RichMix and Arc Theater next June.

The Performance Corporation at Castletownhouse, Cellbridge, Ireland. Creating the photo-performance work ArbolAme, shown at Neukölln Exhibition in December. (March 2009)

I have created the solo works BOUNCE ME (2009) performed in Berlin and Buenos Aires and Born in Spring (2008) performed in Caracas, Berlin, Kassel.

 The body in transition is a duet created in collaboration with Constanza Herrera and performed in Caracas and Berlin (Tanzfabrik).  Danza Nomade, since 2007, is a research and performance collective founded in collaboration with Constanza Herrera after our interest on the body as a space of inscription of the experience of migration and different conditions of transition the body is subject to.

 The work Espacio Intermedio was created and performed at Festival Buenos Aires Danza in 2008, in collaboration with local guests artists.

I worked with Trisha Brown, (June till September 2007 ) performing her pieces Floor of the Forest and Accumulations in a daily basis at Documenta 12, Kassel-Germany. www.documenta12.de.

I performed at diverse projects by Q Hisashi Shibata at Heinz-Minki, Berlin, Tian Zhiming - China Moves Fabrik Potsdam, Bridge Markland, Katie Duck, Robert Steijn and Frans Poelstra at Impulstanz Festival.

I Founded and directed The Moving Point (2005-2007) company, creating works for Van Gogh Museum, Kasteel Groeneveld and Muiderpoort theater among other hosts.

Since 2004 I work on the interdisciplinary arts platform THE MEETING POINT as a founder and coordinator: www.themeetingpoint-platform.com. In this context I worked curating and performing at Bimhuis in Amsterdam during two full years performing and collaborating with dancers Julyen Hamilton, Katrina Brown, Katie Duck, Lily Kiara and musicians Michael Moore, Alex Waterman, Wilbert de Joode, Felicity Provan, among others. Today I coordinate activities for The Meeting Point Berlin ( Living Room Practice and The Meeting Point Lab)

I have been teaching at IUDANZA, Caracas; Festival Montevideo Sitiada, Uruguay; Buitenkunst, Studio Anna Mora, Al Nour and Dansdrift, The Netherlands. SOZO dance visions school in Kassel, Germany, El Patio, Buenos Aires, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan.

I began making photographs in 1993 when I first studied with Martin Rosenthal. Since then photography has accompanied all my creative journeys in different ways. Now getting closer to a professional practice.

Photographs

Drawings and paintings

 Teaching I have been teaching at IUDANZA, Caracas; Festival Montevideo Sitiada, Uruguay; Buitenkunst, Studio Anna Mora, Al Nour and Dansdrift, The Netherlands. SOZO dance visions school in Kassel, Germany, El Patio, Buenos Aires, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan.

 Grants Informatie Beheer Groep, Holland, 2001-2005 / Internationalissering Fonds - AHK, 2003 / Uitnodiging op Naam – AHK, 2004 / Prakticum Generale AHK, 2004 / Dance Web Europe 2006 – Impulstanz Festival, / FAPK - NL – 2006 / Kunstenaars en co. - NL – 2006 / Kunstenaars en co.- NL – 2007

 EDUCATION

I started my independent full time training in 1996 in Buenos Aires. where I studied with Marina Giancaspro, ana Maria Stekelman, Olga Ferri, Cristina Barnlis, Ana Garat, Gustavo Lesgart, and worked with Monica Fraccia, Oscar Araiz and Silvia Pritz. In 2001 I began my BA studies at the Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Theaterschool at the Modern Theatre Dance and SNDO, where I graduate in June 2005.

I studied with Julyen Hamilton, Nienke Reehorst, David Zambrano, Cristina Barnils, Angellique Willkie and Sidi Larbi Chercaoui, Benoit Lechambre, Katie Duck, Mark Tompkins, Andrew Harwood, Mathilde Monnier, Martin Kilvady and Chrysa Parkinson. all of them have deeply inspired my work.

I trained qigong and taiqi at the Oriental College with Rene Goris, in Amsterdam 2006-2007 and Wudang Deutschland with Ismet Himmet in Berlin (2009), Aikido at Aikido Zen Berlin with Gerhard Walter (2009)

I practice the Alexander Technique since I learnt it for three years at the BA education in Amsterdam with Tom Koch and Helga Langsam.

My short anthropology studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and my work as voluntary social worker in Argentina have strongly influenced my vision on art as a tool for social communication and transformation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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