“Cu: infinite body” work at NAVE – 2024-07-10 06:27:10 – 2024-07-10 06:30:25 – 2024-07-10 06:31:26

“Cu: infinite body” work at NAVE

• NAVE Center, Libertad 410, Santiago.
• Friday 12th and Saturday 13th July – 7:00 p.m.
• Tickets HERE.

On Friday, July 12, the outstanding Chilean dancer will premiere a dance piece at the NAVE Center at 7:00 p.m. The project has the collaboration of the Antenna Foundation and the Artistic Creation Department (DiCREA) of the University of Chile.

“Cu: infinite body” is a dance project that incorporates the presence of copper as an excuse to reflect on the ephemeral nature of dance.

Through a suggestive and spectral tone, this choreography proposes five performers on stage, who appear as an infinite body in which materialities extracted from the earth and human actions merge until they become a work.

About the piece, the artist says: “The only trace that remains after dancing is the wake of presence and the photographic or video record. I am working on a stage proposal that reflects on this absence. Here I take the material characteristics of copper to portray mourning and disappearance.”

“Cu: cuerpo infinito” features original music by composer Gregorio Fontén, who, together with Mabes, embarked on a creative residency and a technical residency at NAVE. In addition, this project has the support and co-production of the Antenna Foundation and the Directorate of Artistic Creation (DiCREA) of the University of Chile, through its Vice-Rectorate for Research and Development (VID).

In the review, Mabes reflects on his work as a piece that moves between “earth-language, metal-muscle and reflective-breath; like insinuations, fantasies, desires that, without any certainty, are forged and vanish in the midst of emptiness. A being is born and dies, built in the rhythm between bodies and copper, whose only language is its own dance, in a heroic display of living and surrendering to its destiny.”

The dancer, who also holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile, worked in collaboration with designer Florence Collin to create the original costume, in addition to the creation of a copper suit by María Siebald and a fabric suit by Nibaldo Manríquez.

On Friday the 12th, there will be a post-show discussion with the 2022 President of the Republic National Performing Arts Award winner and academic from the Dance Department of the University of Chile, Paulina Mellado.

In addition, during October the work will be re-staged as part of the 10th anniversary of the Universidad de Chile Arts Forum. It will include a creative laboratory open to students of the Dance program at the same institution, who will be able to learn about the methodologies used by the artist. More information and a registration form will be shared in advance through DiCREA’s official channels.