Dancer and researcher Carmela Muñoz invites artist-researcher Anto Rodríguez to this gathering around her process Invocaciones boleras o la danza de las desposeídas (Bolero Invocations or the Dance of the Dispossessed).
Carmela Muñoz and Anto Rodríguez have been engaging in an epistolary writing practice as a way of accompanying one another, where theory and practice intertwine and blur. As part of Graner’s Diving program, they expand this practice and propose an “Infallible Manual for Summoning (Not).” Because, as Anto says, “Infallible has to do with not making mistakes, and we’re quite close to failure. I like manual because it’s close to manners, and to becoming mannered. And this is about crafting manners. A meeting, a contact point around the ways of doing what we do (is it researching?) so that the invocation might come to visit us.”
In this Diving#2, Carmela and Anto will get the forms to become mannered between disciplines, so that what we don’t yet know may arrive. They will be in residence together at Graner, opening up a space between Carmela’s work and Anto’s gaze and thinking.
Carmela is a resident selected through Graner’s public call for 2024–25, within the framework of the Barcelona Crea Grants – Creation Factories.
- Thursday, May 8th, 2025
- 6:00 PM
- At Graner: c/Jane Addams 14, Barcelona (Location)
- Free entry
Anto Rodríguez holds a PhD in Research in Arts, Humanities and Education from UCLM. He is a member of the Dorothy Michaels creation and research office. His work spans stage productions, academia, podcasts, books, articles, and concerts. Since 2022, he has been publishing the podcast-documentary Color Julay, which explores the history of Spanish songbooks and transformism. In 2023, he published the book Boca abierta: la práctica artística del Lip Sync como archivo vivo (Open Mouth: The Artistic Practice of Lip Sync as a Living Archive, Ed. Desiderata), and in 2024, ¡Eres tan travesti! Breve historia del transformismo en España (You’re Such a Drag! A Brief History of Transformism in Spain, Ed. Egales). His stage works have been presented in contexts such as MNCARS, Teatro Español, Teatro Pradillo, LCE, MET Guadalajara (Mexico), MACBA, DT Espacio Escénico, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Conde Duque, Teatros del Canal, among others.
More information: www.antorodriguez.com
Carmela Muñoz is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher, graduated from the CSD at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She has developed her professional career as a performer with companies such as Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé, José Manuel Álvarez, La Fura dels Baus, and Juan Carlos Lérida. Since 2017, driven by her own curiosity, she has been building her trajectory as a creator with works like Catalina Mía, Bailes de Histéricas, and Invocation. Deeply committed to dance research, she is involved in Estancias Coreográficas in Oviedo, the collective Les Empírcxs, and the Laboratory for Research from Flamenco IT in Barcelona. She received the First Prize for Choreography and the Outstanding Dancer Award for Catalina Mía in various Madrid choreography competitions (2017–2018). In 2021, she was awarded Best Performer at the 15m2 Festival for Estudio sobre la histeria; in 2022, Best Performer at the PAD Andalucía Awards for her role in Origen; and in 2023, Best Work in a Non-Conventional Space at the PAD Andalucía Awards for Invocation. She currently teaches at La Tacones and Studio13, and leads creative workshops across various Spanish cities.
More information: https://carmelamunoz.es
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