Rosa Sanz

I’m Rosa Sanz, originally from Valencia. I have training in Spanish dance and flamenco, although any dance or live arts discipline sparks great interest in me. I consider myself a restless, curious person. That’s why I approach dance through process and consistency, driven by a need to research, to broaden perspectives and knowledge that flow from the body to the stage and back again. It’s a search for one’s own essence through the communicative power of dance and flamenco — both expressively and emotionally — and through their quality and movement vocabulary across different contexts of study, from tradition to postmodern trends. This type of research and creation project encourages me to keep digging into the intricacies of dance’s evolution, in all its forms and manifestations, as well as to delve into the codes, imaginaries, aesthetics, and emotions of flamenco and its crystallizations.

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Last project in residence

Contextual cross-residency between Dansa València and Graner. During her residency, artist Rosa Sanz takes part in stage laboratories, holds meetings with various artistic teams and cultural facility managers in the city, and gains an in-depth understanding of the Graner project. Contextual residencies allow the artist to map out the city’s creative fabric and establish meaningful connections. Additionally, the artist is provided with a workspace, in this case to continue developing her research project Desde el Quebranto. Alegato sobre lo roto (From the Fracture. A Plea for the Broken).

Desde el Quebranto. Alegato sobre lo roto is a research proposal that begins with defining the very concept itself, raising a series of questions about the flamenco body and the dualities of the perfect (beauty) versus the imperfect (flaw); the internal/spiritual (feeling) versus the external/physical (the senses). Based on these reflections, we seek to exchange languages in order to explore the flamenco body by bringing together heterogeneous artistic paths and generating knowledge production pathways—creating a context of networks of re-significations that grant dynamic meanings and reshape themselves within a space, a context, and a time. What drives us is the idea that this broken being is not always an end—it can be the beginning of understanding or reconstructing what once was, or it may lead us toward a new body.

The team is composed of Rosa Sanz, who leads the research and performs as a dancer; Arantxa Lecumberri, researcher and performer; Gustavo Gímenez, researcher, sound poet, and experimental musician; Pilar Pacheco, cantaora and performer; and Jesús Pérez, in charge of audiovisual work. The project also benefits from the external guidance of Alba Carbonell, Carlos Carbonell, and Rosa Romero.