Luz Arcas / La Phármaco is a resident of Graner 2023 through a public call, in the research category. As part of her research process, she has conducted a free workshop at Graner with individuals over 55 linked to body work. As a culmination of this workshop and with the intention of sharing her process, we propose an OPEN STUDIO on Thursday, March 16th at 7:00 PM at Graner.
“I am Luz Arcas, I dedicate myself to contemporary dance, but I don’t identify with that term, I prefer others, like dancing. Folklore inspires me a lot, the collective imagination, it saves me from abstraction and connects me with something instinctive, common. I have searched a lot outside, almost always in other continents. I have trained in India, I have worked in countries in Africa, America, hoping to escape from the domesticated body, from the asepsis aspired by the international style that dominates the European scene. In my land, Andalusia, I find very strong engines, I am marked by its syncretism, by everything I have experienced there. I am not interested in great ideas. My body wants to unearth, rediscover. Dancing, a domestic miracle that arises unexpectedly, that inscribes us in a cultural community, like symbols or memory. A complex and contradictory vitality, which wants to get dirty with the present, embody new meanings in each body. What interests me is the body, its dignity. It is difficult to sustain, after all, but I live it as a debt to life. That is what I aspire to with my dance: to sublimate defeat.”
Luz is in the research/creation process of Numerous Beings Desert (BEKRISTEN/ DOMESTICATION), which she describes as follows:
There is something that has obsessed me for years, and it is the increasingly short lifespan of objects, compared to their longevity as garbage, in short, to think that most of the waste will outlive me. There is something about this logic that extends to bodies: maximum intensity, utility, immediacy. To then remain as human remains in the spaces destined for them (countries or neighborhoods, landfills, or limbo…), curiously, the most populous part of the planet.
PRACTICAL INFO FOR OPEN STUDIO 1:
- Date and time: Thursday, March 16th 2023 at 7:00 PM
- Location Graner (c/Jane Addams 14-16, 08038 Barcelona)
- Reservations: Free entry with prior reservation at info@granerbcn.cat
- Participants: Luz Arcas, team, and workshop participants: Ángeles de la Paz, Flor Pascua, Gemma Charines, Josep Maria Gassó, Julio Álvarez, Maddalena Vasevi, Rosa Casas, Rosa María Soldán, and Viviane Calvitti.
PRACTICAL INFO FOR OPEN STUDIO 2:
- Date and time: Thursday, July 20th 2023 at 7:00 PM
- Location Graner (c/Jane Addams 14-16, 08038 Barcelona)
- Reservations: Free entry with prior reservation at info@granerbcn.cat
Both open studios will showcase Luz Arcas’s creation process of Numerous Beings Desert, where she takes the obsolescence of bodies and objects as a starting point. On stage, we will see a group of people who have participated in a previous workshop with the choreographer at Graner.
