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Amaranta Velarde

Amaranta Velarde is a dancer, choreographer and qualified teacher living in the Netherlands. Since 2004, she has been working with the Dutch choreographer Bruno Listopad, among other creators. In 2011, she returned to Barcelona, where she started to create her own choreographic pieces, while also working with other creators, such as Cris Blanco, the Conde de Torrefiel and Ola Maciejewska. She has been a member of La Poderosa ARTAS group. Her work has been presented in contexts such as Alt Vigo, Museum of Contemporary Art in León, the Mercat de les Flors’ Irregular Section, MACBA és Viu, Sala Hiroshima (BCN), Brigittines (Brussels), CA2M, Teatro Pradillo, Museo Reina Sofía, Festival Eufònic, and Festival Grec.

* photography Jorge Mirón / Alice Brazzit

Last project in residence

Desbordes investigates the concepts of overflowing and containment with regard to stage aesthetics, corporeality and choreographic language. It delves into the need to seek altered states of awareness and the production of alternative identities as a means of evading mundane constraints and emptiness. Desbordes draws from a camp aesthetics and the New Romantics movement of the 1980s. The work’s starting point are the blend of elements, the kitsch aesthetics, its optimism and exuberance, the androgynous features and theatricalization, producing denaturalization and artificiality through excess and escapism.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2023 · with Mercat de les Flors · Desbordes
  • 2022 · with Mercat de les Flors · Desbordes
  • 2015 · collaboration with La Poderosa · Mix-en-scene
  • 2014 · collaboration with Secció Irregular – Mercat de les Flors · Hacia una estética de la buena voluntad
  • 2012 ·collaboration with La Poderosa · Lo natural

Residencies videos

Mentories artístiques 2024

#FF80 (2012-14)