Magdalena Garzon

I have been dedicated to contemporary dance for over twenty years. I combine my work as a choreographer and performer with artistic mediation, participating in projects in the socio-educational field. Since 2017, I have been developing a personal project of practical and theoretical research around dance creation with individuals with visual diversity, as well as generating spaces for meeting and discussion around co-audiodescription in dance and accessibility in artistic practice. I regularly collaborate with the accessibility team at the CCCB. At the same time, I am interested in the interventions between pedagogy and artistic practice in formal and non-formal education contexts, being part of the coordination of the project called Toolbox at Graner and other educational and mediation projects at Mercat de les Flors.

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Residency project

The project Alteritats del gest (Otherness of the gesture) takes Francesc Tosquelles psychiatrist as a reference. Francesc Tosquelles (Reus, 1912 – Granges d’Òlt, 1994) was a psychiatrist who carried out avant-garde experiences of a therapeutic, political, and cultural nature. He dignified the lives of those who did not matter, abandoned in asylums, while denouncing the pathologies of normality under the Europe of fascism. Today, he is a reference point for the importance of mental health treatment in times of extreme crisis.

Taking the figure and work of the early 20th-century psychiatrist as a reference and inspiration, we propose a research project in community medicine/mediation that, through methodologies of creation in dance, participates in the context of care relationships, the destigmatization of mental health, and the construction of subjectivities. The main hypothesis of the research is framed in the act of creation itself; how the creation of something new, generating its existence, provides an ideal area of action for the comprehensive recovery of the participants, fully affecting their perception of the body and the possibility of change and transformation.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2024 · open call BCN Crea Fàbriques de creació · Alteritats del gest (Otherness of the gesture)
  • 2024 · in collaboration with Festival Moujuïc · Verònica
  • 2022 · open call practical methodologies modality · Investigació en metodologies d’audiodescripció en dansa. L’accessibilitat en l’àmbit de la diversitat visual.

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