Son[i]a #324
Juan Domínguez
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A key figure in the field of live arts, Juan Domínguez describes himself as “a conceptual clown, magical cowboy, model-poet, and curator of pleasure.” His artistic body of work is situated both in and out of choreography, and champions excess as well as measure. In any case, he never loses sight of the question that guides his practice: “What shall we do together in this present moment to construct reality?”
In this conversation, despite a nasty cold, Domínguez looks back over his career: from his beginnings as a ballet student in Valladolid to his collaborations with Blanca Calvo and La Ribot in Bocanada Danza, and his ten years as curator of the Festival In-Presentable. He also talks about his extensive oeuvre, touching on very different works such as All Good Spies are My Age, Blue, the three seasons of Clean Room, Between what is no longer and what is not yet, and My Only Memory.
We talk at length about changing the parameters of live arts, putting a frame on reality, the complexities of participation and co-authorship, and Juan’s efforts to tense time and grow older with his projects and audiences. We also talk about his (admiring) envy of TV series, about robberies, about necessary and supporting co-conspirators, about the body and politics, and about discipline and chaos.
Featuring fragments of "Blue".
Boris Charmatz
Dance interpreter, choreographer, thinker, writer, teacher and curator Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field. He also talks about polisemy, collectivity, communities and anti-communities, radical pedagogy, dissent, the Musée de la danse, the complex and inexhaustible relationship between dance and history, working inside gestures, and the beauty of older people skateboarding.
David Levine
David Levine discusses the historical precedents of what he calls "infiltrations" in everyday life, such as Adrian Piper's "The Mythic Being", Vito Acconci's "Following Piece", and Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Roberta Breitmore". Almost an hour chatting about reality and fiction, representation, invisibility, loops, and disappearances of all kinds.
La Ribot
We talk to dancer, choreographer, and visual artist La Ribot about key moments in her childhood, the collective creation and delirium of Bocanada Danza, Festival Desviaciones, the UVI group and the subsequent financial and emotional crisis that drove her from London in the nineties, and her encounter with the performing arts boom. She talks to us from the breathing room she has gained with her new centre for dance and teaching in Switzerland. In the midst of comings and goings, we discover moments that allow us to flesh out and strip back the diva, from her childhood wish to be a gypsy and the lasting impression of a little girl’s fascination on seeing a bullfight on TV, to her found object fetishes, the camera-operator, and a (perhaps dreamt) falling out with Joan Brossa.