Carmela Muñoz
Carmen Muñoz says that her friends, or the people who watch her dance with affection, say she is always “plugged in.” And indeed, she is motivated and fascinated by dance in its most artisanal sense. She loves to think of it as a fabric or a network that sustains bodies and thoughts (which are one and the same), expanding knowledge. If she had to define herself, she would say she is a performer, creator, teacher, and researcher. But she believes she—and all of us—are much more than that. She feels deeply connected to everything related to the process, to the experience of exposing herself to go through it, exploring the surroundings of the danced subject and pursuing a critical reflection on it. Certainties do not attract her, and every day she reminds herself that we are here dancing without the need to produce a product or a result with commercial value. She prefers to wander. She is drawn to the peripheries and the contours. She understands her practice as her way of living and trying to make sense of what is happening. She is interested in everything that does not quite fit anywhere. She considers herself a hybrid body, committed and rigorous, with an open gaze that moves fluidly between dance and flamenco without needing to choose. She loves both dance and flamenco, but she needs to approach them through context; in this way, she finds a logic that is closer and more grounded. Through this research, she hopes to explore a more peripheral space and to be accompanied by artists she deeply admires for their rigor and ways of working: Esther Solé Alarcón and Derek Van den Bulcke.
