valeria

Born in Buenos Aires Argentina , I moved to Amsterdam in 2001 and changed for Berlin in 2008.

I dance since the age of six and make my own work since 2002.

My greatest interest in arts is on their potential as social communicators through conceptual and emotional creativity. the body concieved as a common perceptive tool and perception as our first construction of realities are the starting point for my creative processes.

THE WORK

Since November 2007 I work on my solo Born in Spring, which premiered on April 26 at the Studios Ada in Berlin and continues its journey through Caracas, Venezuela and Kassel, Germany.

From June till September 2007 I worked for choreographer Trisha Brown, performing her pieces Floor of the Forest and Accumulations in a daily basis at Documenta 12, Kassel

Since 2004 I work on the co-founded platform The Meeting Point, together with musician Marcos Baggiani. It is an interdisciplinary improvisation platform which started as a laboratory at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam (now continued as Monday Match).The Meeting Point’s main focus is to facilitate the practice and development of interdisciplinary instant composition and its community. now, it is also co-directed by Marisa Grande and Thomas Johanssen. Within this platform I further my research on instant composition as a social communication tool.

Between April 2006 and May 2007 I developed a colaboration project called The Moving Point, focussed on interdisciplinary instant compossing, including music, dance, lights and film. Stable collaborators were musicians Marcos Baggiani, Michael Fischer, Daisuke Terauchi; dancers Diana Gadish, Marisa Grande and film maker: Albert Elings. the pieces Lluvia, Les Chus dance and percussion duet and On the con-sequence of things, have been performed at different venues in Amsterdam. Still Moving was performed and produced by Kasteel Groeneveld Festival tusseNland on October 1st 2006, in collaboration with the dutch film maker Albert Ellings. Our new work Changing Paintings is produced by the Van Gogh Museum and will be performed in May 11th at that venue.

I have also collaborated with Magpie, music and dance company, Zoe Androutsopolou and Marcello Windolph on their piece ¨Negombwe¨, Robert Steijn and Frans Poelstra at Impulstanz Festival, Wien 2005. And performed with the dancers Katrina Brown, Lily Kiara, Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, the musicians Michael Fischer, Daisuke Terauchi, Michael Moore, Wilbert de Joode, Felicity Provan, Mary Oliver, the visual artists Ron Bunzl and Edgar Jansen, among others.

I have been teaching at IUDANZA, Caracas; Festival Montevideo Sitiada, Uruguay; Buitenkunst, Studio Anna Mora, Al Nour and Dansdrift, The Netherlands. And will be teaching at SOZO dance visions school in Kassel, Germany and at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México.

EDUCATION

I started my independient full time trainning 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 began making photographs in 1993 when I first studied with Martin Rosenthal. Since then photography has accompany all my creative journeys in different ways. Now getting closer to a professional practice is also feeding my video works, which began by editing dance performance registrations and its becoming now another open door for creative work.

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 and improvisation as tools for social communication and transformation.