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*1978 Born in Medellín, Colombia and early educated in classical ballet, after finishing school, Brenda went to London and then to Hamburg. After 18 Years learning, working and performing in Europe, she returned 2013 to live in Colombia, where she launched the Fundación Espacio Arte. In Europe, parallel to her studies in philosophy and Literature, she attended classes, workshops and summer academies on contemporary dance techniques and contemporary choroegrafic work and got involved as a teacher and performer with argentinian Tango. In numerous projects, participating as a performer, creator and realizator, her artistic work emerges at the intersections between choreography and other disciplines, always looking for the relationship to the concrete space and social enviroment.
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choreography
I work around an expanded concept of choroegraphy and am mostly interested in site-specific projects. In the last time I keep on asking myself how to connect my artistic work to my social and political engagement and the result is a series of documentary performances and performative interventions related to the physical and social spaces I inhabit.
Once during a workshop, a participant gave the best definition about contemporary dance, I've ever heard. She said: 'contemporary dance is art with the body'. I also remeber a lot the words of my friend and teacher Gyohei Zaitsu: "The body is a place where forces jostle and intersect. Where do these forces come from? I do not know. The body exists beyond my comprehension. And each time I dance, the memory is renewed. Life dances. I cannot impede it" |
cultural management
The Espacio Arte Foundation is a non profit organisation based in Colombia, Southamerica. Our approach relies on boosting dynamics of social transformation through multidisciplinary artistic projects, intertwining our work in a local and international context.
By offering frames in which individuals and communities get together with competent profesionals of diverse fields, with a focus on a creative and respectful way of relating to ourselves and the enviroment, we intend to cultivate what we believe to be a good life. The Espacio Arte Foundation performs as a collaboration platform and site for professional projection for the arts in Colombia. |
teachING
Teaching is for me one of the most beautiful ways to build a relationship: deeply human in its fragility, it's intensity and fugacity. I thank all my students the many chances they have gave me to learn.
2017
CONMOCIÓN Series of workshops on contact improvisation and real-time-composition. Ethnographic writing and Performance. In collaboration with professor Jonathan Echeverri. Universidad de Antioquia. Cuerpos en Diálogo Argentian Tango-Workshops focused on non-verbal communication and the listening of the bodies in movement. - Anthropoly: Space and Time. In collaboration with professor Jonathan Echeverri. Universidad de Antioquia. things untold // como un cuerpo In collaboration with artist Kirstin Burckhardt. One-day-workshop dedicated to reflect upon our ideas of having or being a body in relationship to experiences of violence in the city of Medellin. |
