Natalia Fernandes
Natalia Fernandes is a choreographer, dancer, and creator of the methodology Invented Anatomy. Brazilian by birth and based in Spain since 2017, she has been living in Catalonia since 2023. Previously, she lived and worked in Germany, the United States, Morocco, and Jordan. Her stage and methodological research begins with the body, understood not only as matter but as a fictional construction shaped by narratives that operate as technologies for imagining, producing, and reading it.
Her training took place entirely in Brazil, although it was always permeated by European discourses and references. This friction between the choreographic imaginary of the old continent and the bodily experience of her homeland — feet on the asphalt of downtown São Paulo — positions tropicalist ideals and the anthropophagy of discourses as central axes of her creative thinking. The interplay between body, imagination, and word sustains a practice articulated from a critical and postcolonial position in relation to hegemonic choreographic discourses and to the very idea of the dancer. Fiction appears here as a tool to activate imaginative possibilities and to overflow the limits of what the body can be, say, and narrate.
With the desire to translate this superposition of discourses, her work is grounded in a hybrid stage language in which the body is revealed as a space of friction, invention, and poetic and political transformation. Her work has been presented in various festivals and contexts such as Mercat de les Flors, Conde Duque, Festival TNT, Dansa València, AWA – Bern, Dance South – Taiwan, CIGUT – Egypt, among others.
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