The CCN invites artists in residence to open up their trainings to local professional dancers and anyone else with a physical practice.
WE WANT TRAINING takes many forms, depending on the approach of each artist: warm-ups, movement exercises, classes, practices.... These sessions take place in the mornings, from 10am to 11am. WE WANT TRAINING invites us to share, question and reconsider everyday artistic practices.
Joaquín Collado is a Spanish choreographer and dancer based in Barcelona. He is a self-taught ballroom dancer, urban dancer and contemporary dancer. Since 2017, he has been developing his personal choreographic practice through which he explores scenic processes to alter the contours of the body and dance with the ambition of welcoming other multiple bodies that exist in the sphere of space, the monstrous and the poetic.
MarionCarriau sees choreographic creation as a place to open up to fiction, encouraging the reinvention of bodies. Weaving dance with vocal practice and the visual arts is at the heart of her artistic approach. She creates modular works designed to enter into dialogue with the environment in which they are set. Through her work, Marion Carriau wishes to defend the interweaving of links, the attachment to the world, to ecosystems and to species. She founded the Mirage association to support her work in 2016.
Born in Athens, Katerina Andreou is a dancer, choreographer and musician based in France. She develops a physical practice specific to each project, seeking states of presence that often challenge notions of authority and censorship. She creates the sound environment of her pieces herself, which becomes her principal dramaturgical tool.
Aina Alegre is a choreographer, dancer and actor from Barcelona. Influenced by fiction as both genre and practice, her work explores notions such as hybridization, the plasticity of movement, the state of presence, rhythm and the musicality of the body in order to generate her own writing.
Mercedes Dassy is a dancer and choreographer active in the fields of dance, theater, performance and video. She deals with subjects such as the new ultra-sexed-connected feminist wave, relational commitment in a consumerist society, and her generation's relationship to commitment. Mercedes Dassy's work is based on a choreographic, political and aesthetic triangulation.
A latecomer to dance after studying psychology in her native Madrid, Marta Izquierdo Muñoz was an avid dancer (ballet, jazz, contemporary, flamenco, clubbing) before embarking on her first personal projects. Using performance and dance combined with a certain theatricality, she develops her creations around ambiguous female characters, straddling the line between popular culture and the margins.
Kat Válastur (b. Athens, Greece) is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her choreographic works are defined by the creation of transformative experiences on stage. In her work, bodies manifest the way power structures are experienced and embodied. Using myth as a tool, she creates a state charged with historical, fictional, social and personal experience. This mythical construction, which channels reality, becomes a speculative topos and force field that the performers inhabit.
