Olga Álvarez – La Taimada
We are like a dog with two fierce heads in a shared body. Jordi, from the world of the visual arts, and Olga, from that of the body and dance, have been involved in a dialogue that has been going back and forth continually since 2015. We have for some time now felt uncomfortable with the word “dance”: bodies, space and time have taken up all our attention. Dance is visual poetry, chiselled bodies, thought-provoking images, intuitive, instinctive, subliminal and metaphorical messages. We are less and less interested in the power of choreography and more and more entranced by the poetry of the body. We want to smash BEAUTY to bits. We are caught in a confrontational need, an instinctive need to move images to transmit inconclusive messages. We are seeking an audiences that consume our images with the same innocence as that with which we offer them. A beauty – with no ethical or moral attribute – offered up as a sacrifice for each member of the audience to consume their part, in the ritual act invoked onstage.
- 2022 · open call · El Jardí
La Taimada’s El Jardín forms part of the Garden trilogy, loosely inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. A creation designed for the normative and non-normative bodies of volunteers aged 18 to 99, with whom the goal is to explore the movements of the human body under a sole non-exclusionary enablement: pleasure. Human diversity is thus – from this perspective – put on a completely equal footing within a vast garden of delights. El Jardín aims to offer a visual depiction of sensuality and human fragility, seeking to explore the potential of bodies, whatever their bodily limits.
