Bio:
My name is Inka and I’m a dancer; the ideas that permeate my way of moving are archive, margin, and repetition. My first relationship with the archive was through YouTube; I would copy choreographies from the music videos of my favorite artists, and it remains a key tool in my working process today. I would memorize titles and names of pieces. I started dancing flamenco when I was a child. Later, I continued my training in contemporary dance at the conservatory, but I never settled for the academic and always tried to find answers elsewhere, especially in urban dances, more underground practices, or what has been on the periphery or the margin. I practice and learn breaking, electro, vogue, and other styles.
Project in residence:
Ayora’s fandango is a traditional dance performed in pairs that disappeared from the repertoire of popular dances because it did not meet the aesthetic or ideological standards of the Sección Femenina. In this piece, I propose a process of recovery and rewriting in which we imagine what this dance is like today and what possibilities exist to bring it back to the streets. An exploration of popular dances as a mechanism of collectivity and community. An encounter of various vocabularies such as traditional dance and urban dances in an exercise of rematerialization of memory. Fandango is constructed as an archaeological investigation in which dance activates a common ritual experience.
Graner residences archive:
- 2024 · Public call, creation modality · Fandango
Links:
https://www.inkaromani.com
@inkaromani
Photos by Francisco Graofalo