Joaquín Collado

Bio:

I am Joaquín, this is my name. Beneath it, there are many others that come and go as they please. I dance, I am a creator and dancer from Albacete. Since 2017, I have been developing my own choreographic practice through which I explore methods to blur and expand the contours of the body and dance, motivated by the desire to embrace other multiple bodies that exist in the realms of the spatial, the monstrous, and the poetic. I affirm myself as a dancer, and at the same time, I deny myself as a dancer. I am interested in the question of imagination. I have done contemporary dance, ballroom dancing, and studied a bit of Fine Arts and a bit of acting at ESAD in Valencia. I am a changing being, always unfinished, always in a state of becoming.

Project in residence:

Hacia un sol negro is a confederation of monstrous and delicate corporealities, in permanent transformation, that raises questions about the figure of the dancer and dance, the human, the fictionalized body, and the many categories that operate in their multiple combinations. The piece is also an invitation to look at what lies in the shadow of hypervisibility and overexposure. This solo takes as its starting point the exploration of the performativity of competitive ballroom dancing, known as dance sport, and asks how to alter the logic of this type of dance to bring forth a multiple and indeterminate body, and thus open and available to be imagined. Project within the framework of an associated artist at the Mercat de les Flors in the 23-24 season.

Graner residences archive:

• • 2024 · with Mercat de les Flors · Hacia un sol negro
  • 2023 · with Mercat de les Flors · Hacia un sol negro
  • 2022 · in collaboration with Institut Ramon Llull · Aproximación a un sol negro
  • 2021 · open call · Zoo!
  • 2015 · ein collaboration with Dansa Ara · Muerte del avestruz

www.antescollado.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joaquincollado_