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Javi Cruz
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Artist, choreographer, and performer. Her work is situated “between” choreography, film and the visual arts. Beyond the interest in her first pieces from theatrical and cinematographic conventions and the spectator’s implicit understanding of them, in her latest works, she seeks to question this relationship by opening up potential spaces through encounters with what we find strange and alien.
Her most recent work insists on the performative nature of the encounter as a space for transformation. In this process of transformation, the “other” is lodged in oneself, establishing blurred borders between the known and the unknown, the object and the subject, the animate and the inanimate. Her work tries to escape from logocentric and anthropocentric logic, where human knowledge itself becomes vulnerable to other enigmatic and complex ecosystems. María Jerez combines the production of her artistic work with pedagogical, curatorial and editorial projects.
www.mariajerez.com
Artist, choreographer, and performer. After working as a dancer and performer with various choreographers in Europe in the nineties, she began developing her choreographic work in 2001. Since then, she has created performances presented at numerous festivals in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. While her primary focus is on creation, she also actively engages in various research, curatorial, teaching, and publication projects.
www.cuquijerez.com
All of his practice moves endlessly between the musical, the choreographic and the visual, in a more or less premeditated way. He is an author but also works accompanying processes of other artists, which lead to hybrid theaters and contexts of the European experimental scene. He is a performer in both fields, and a musician. The visuality or the work in drawing shapes a central exploration in his work, which communicates with these other disciplines in a natural way.
Parallel to the musical/performative work they have developed a line of work that intermingles with pedagogy and have held workshops at CA2M, MACBA, Casa Encendida, Graner, Master of Performing arts in Valladolid. Collaborates with the artists Anto Rodriguez, Cris Blanco, Amalia Fernández, Cuqui Jerez and María Jerez.
www.osburo.com
Visual artist graduated in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague (2020). Her interdisciplinary practices articulated between performance, film, typography and collage are inspired by intimate stories. Through humor and poetry, she tries to analyze and understand the mechanisms underlying human behavior.
Focusing on banality and storytelling, Louana tries to investigate how relationships are built, developing her research and visual project around love, where she alludes to participatory and playful dynamics through workshops and walks that are formalized in a textual and performative body of work. Taking attraction as a discursive drive, with her film "Hey, do you come here often?" she tries to verbalize the invisible current of desire between people.
In 2019, from an interest to explore the limits of language, she began to collaborate with Cuqui Jerez in different projects, as a performer, co-creator and graphic designer.
In 2020, together with Javi Cruz, Oscar Bueno, Cécile Brousse and Anto Rodríguez, she developed the show Las Ultracosas, an attempt to suspend meaning in performance. In 2022 they premiered Mágica y Elástica, a deconstructed musical that questions the pre-eminence of image, music or movement.
She is part of the collective Dorothy Michaels since 2023.
www.louana-gentner.com
Postdoctoral researcher at Margarita Salas UCLM-UCM. He is an artist and holds a Ph.D. in Research in Arts, Humanities, and Education with honors CUM LAUDE from UCLM. He is a member of the Dorothy Michaels.
Among his artistic productions, notable works include the film 'Frankenstein' (Best Asturian Feature Film at the 51st edition of the Gijón International Film Festival, 2013), the concert-karaoke 'Vivir en videoclip' (produced by Veranos de la Villa festival, 2018), the theatrical piece 'La Traviata' (premiered at Teatro Pradillo and Teatro Español in Madrid, 2018), and the scenic lecture 'Lo otro: el concierto' (2013). His recent works include the theatrical pieces 'Al Altu la lleva' (Surge Festival, Madrid, 2021), 'Arriba' (produced by Conde Duque Madrid and Graner, Barcelona, 2020), 'Notas para una conferencia troll' (2016), 'Mamá Patria' (LCE, 2015), etc.
Among his interdisciplinary productions, the most recognized include the audiovisual series 'Carrizo' (produced by La Casa Encendida, 2019) and the documentary podcast 'Color Julay,' where he explores the history of songbooks and transformism in Spain.
As a teacher, he has taught in Fine Arts faculties of UCM and UCLM, MITAV at the National University of Colombia, CA2M, and MNCARS within MPECV, Madrid.
www.antorodriguez.com
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Javi Cruz’s work is developed through collaborative projects, either in his individual practice or as part of collective structures, as well as collaborations with professionals in the performing arts.
In his practice we find collaborations with a chemist, a biologist, choreographers and a construction worker among other disciplines that shape a discourse based on imagen and performativity through the design of situations, the exploration of language and the exploration of its material dimension, generating ways of telling contemporaneity.
In 2019 he started, together with Zuloark, Bosque Real, a platform to safeguard forgotten heritage and recount them from multiple rescue perspectives. As well, together with Fernando Gandasegui runs the Bar Yola, where a cross between living arts and pedagogies is hosted in scenic contexts.
His work has been part of exhibitions in key Madrid’s institutions such as the CA2M (Trémula 2021), La Casa Encendida, (Flor de Mayo 2021) with David Horvitz, The Broken Hill, with José Venditti (Museo Reina Sofía 2021), Luis Adelantado Gallery (Kobold, 2023) or Conde Duque (Fina hoja de metal, 2023) and within other venues in the spanish context, as Artium, Fabra i Coats, Matadero and Patio Herreriano Museum, among other art centers, festivals and theaters on a national and international scale.
As a performer, he has worked mainly with the artists Cuqui Jerez, María Jerez and Cris Blanco.
Performing, but also designing and building, he was part of the team that represented Spain at the Prague Quadriennal of Performative Space in 2023. He works as a professor of scenography at URJC/TAI and has collaborated with AECID, driving workshops and writing in Bolivia, Chile and Guatemala.
He is an associated artist to the multidimensional and polivalent community off artists called Dorothy Michaels.
www.javicruz.info
Her work is situated at the limits of live arts, video and choreography, it deforms the limits of languages and opens space for the suspension of meaning. She investigates the creation of homemade, rudimentary and low-tech devices for making live films. She is interested in the extraordinary and almost invisible phenomena, those that can be perceived by holding bodily ways of attention. As for the modes of film production, she approaches “filmmaking” as a (political) alibi, to provoke and sustain collective experiences where she can get involved and spend time “with” others, such as ruido ê project that has kept her busy for the past few years, in which she collaborates with the association for the conservation of sharks and rays Catsharks, the marine biologist Claudio Barría, the bioacoustician Michel André and with artists such as Susana Jiménez Carmona, Clara Piazuelo, Mar Medina, Cris Blanco, among others.
Her work questions ways of filming “from a distance.” For this she moves away from the usual “hand-eye” relationship and tries to legitimize the sensitive possibilities of an amateur, vulnerable, sick, thuggish, hidden, punk and also z-series body... Recently finishes the doctoral thesis Counterdispositives between cinema and the performing arts: ghosts, diffractions, holes and other creatures (2023). Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca. UCLM.
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Choreographer, dancer and performer. She currently collaborates with artists such as Cuqui Jerez and A.I.M.E/Julie Nioche and she joins the collective Dorothy Michaels in 2023.
Deeply and superficially interested in questions of space, she explores and stretches choreographic possibilities with her own works Let's Fold Around, Radio Frisson and Supposons une Dune.
She is regularly invited as a guest artist in different pedagogical contexts by various institutions in Europe : Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, Paris (2014-2024), Cobosmika Company, Spain (2023-2024), IGtanz, Sant Gallen Switzerland (2023), Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland (2021), Sandberg Instituut/Studio for Immediate Space, Amsterdam (2016-2017), Festival d'Automne/exposition William Forsythe, Paris (2017), Théâtre National de Chaillot / L'artiste et son monde, Paris (2018), Centre National de la Danse / Imagine (2018-2019), TPE-Bezons /petites suites curieuses, Un monde dans un monde(2019-2020), Nouvelle scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise (2020-2022) / 50 ans de création de la Trisha Brown Dance Company, (2020).
Production assistant and cultural manager. Graduate in Audiovisual Communication and Master's in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (UCM, UAM, Reina Sofía Museum). She is interested in working on collaborative projects linked to contemporary artistic practices and creative processes. Currently, thanks to the Emplea Cultura program of the Santander Foundation, she carries out production, management, communication, and administrative tasks at Dorothy Michaels.
Consultant, strategic designer and project manager who focuses on social innovation, culture and sustainability. Founder and co-director of Ultrazul.
She holds a degree in Law and Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Language Science at UNED. She also holds a degree in Business Design and Lean Startup from the H2i Institute School of Innovation. Previously, she served as Director of Business Relations and Social Innovation at the public company Madrid Destino (Culture Area of the Madrid City Council), and Director of Impact Hub Madrid, an international network of social innovation and entrepreneurship. She has also worked for the Spanish Tourism Office in Rome in the area of culture, for AECID in Buenos Aires in cultural cooperation and in La Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. She has lived in Mexico while developing cooperation projects and is a professor at IE in Design Thinking training and at the ISDI school. She is part of the curatorial team of TEDx Madrid and Residenza Lago Scuro (art, creation and gastronomy).