Anto Rodríguez

Anto Rodríguez holds a PhD in Research in Arts, Humanities, and Education from UCLM. He is part of the Dorothy Michaels Creation and Research Office. He works on projects for the stage, universities, podcasts, books, articles, concerts… Since 2022, he has been publishing the documentary podcast Color Julay, in which he discusses the history of songbooks and transformism in Spain. In 2023, he published the book Boca abierta: la práctica artística del Lip Sync como archivo vivo (Ed. Desiderata) and in 2024 ¡Eres tan travesti! Breve historia del transformismo en España (Ed. Egales). His stage works have been presented in venues such as the MNCARS, Teatro Español, Teatro Pradillo, LCE, MET Guadalajara (Mexico), MACBA, DT Espacio Escénico, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Conde Duque, Teatros del Canal, and others.

www.antorodriguez.com
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Latest project in residence

Arriba (2021) is a performance that I prepared with my friends Óscar and Cristina as we remembered how we used to play together commedia dell’arte, already a long time ago. As the action of remembering suggests, we rewrote what we lived back then and looked for the meaning of those experiences in our bodies. In Arriba (Upward) we walk with music, we march. We dance just by walking, which is hardly the only way we can dance now. I wonder whether the arts of relation are different today than how they used to be one year or one continent ago. I wonder how we get now high. How do we embody what’s mainstream? Where  do I stuff it?

Graner Residency Archive

  • 2021 · Open call  · Arriba

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