Author: Lucía Sombras
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BIOPHONY
BIOPHONYDancing Nature Biophony is the final project of an artistic residency coordinated by Lucía Callén, Alberto Monreal, and Fernando Fernández, with the support of the Culture Moves Europe program. The residency involved 9 artists from countries such as Romania, Ukraine, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Colombia, and Spain, where we worked using the senses and technology to…
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HOLOBIONT
Adaptive Movement for Interspecies Survival “The life of any living being does not begin with its birth; it is much older. Our own life, which we imagine to be sealed within us in the most intimate and incommunicable way, does not come from us. It is not exclusive or personal. It has been transmitted to…
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SPACE FOR NATURE
In September 2023, we participated as performer and choreographer in the international residency Space for Nature during its first Artistic Residency at Casa Algaia (Aguarón, Spain), in the form of an Erasmus+ Training Course. There, we had the opportunity to connect and share the creative process with twenty international artists from Turkey, Romania, Poland, the…
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PELO
PELO is an action developed at the Museo La Neomudéjar by Alberto Monreal and Lucía Sombras, exploring the connections between #aesthetics and #knowledge. The project was sponsored by La Fura dels Baus and carried out in collaboration with the Fine Arts Degree Program at URJC. The origin of the piece lies in the personal experiences…
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IN-PERCEPTION
IN-PERCEPTION / MACHINE’S DREAMpor Synaptic Body (@synaptic_body) IN-PERCEPTION is an improvisational Butoh dance and sound experimentation performance that responds to the machinic and posthuman transformation of bodies as a consequence of technological advancement. It delves into the essential question: What does it mean to be human in a body that has already become a machine?…
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Butoh Dance & Neuroscience
A Dance for Body-mind integration Butoh dance is also a journey for psychosomatic exploration where processes of cognitive-motor integration, intercerebral synchronicity, interpersonal coordination, attention enhancement and memory recovery occur. Processes which are currently being studied by modern neuroscience for their therapeutic application, given their multiple health benefits (Theofanopoulou et al., 2023). Using techniques like breath…
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Butoh Dance for Performing Arts
We propose an annual course, divided into 9 monthly intensives whorkshops, for immersion and psychosomatic training in Butoh Dance, through the original techniques developed from Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno butoh masters to contemporary ones. An approach to reach the state of no-mind, Butoh-Tai and transfiguration versatility, supported by the studies of modern Neuroscience and…
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Poetry Book EN EL NOMBRE DEL HAMBRE
Poetic dramaturgy of the performance En el nombre del Hambre with the poetic voice of Lucía Callén and illustrated by Eden Herrera. The devouring poetry book En el Nombre del Hambre is a poetic book that compiles the dramaturgical text of the homonymous butoh dance performance by Lucía Sombras (Lucía Callén) illustrated by the designer…
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Bodies of aging
Five audiovisual portraits against the social phobia of aging and for the visibilization of older women: their voices, their bodies, their strength and their beauty. Cuerpos de la Vejez (Bodie of Agings) is the portrait of five older women who decide to tell their life story through their own bodies. Bodies that, because of the…
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Embracing death
Bunraku-Butoh performance at the presentation event of the Al Final de la Vida project (web: http://www.alfinaldelavida.org) held on December 12, 2019 at Fundación ONCE. “(…)I remember my childhood, when I was an old woman. Flowers died in my hands because the wild dance of joy destroyed their hearts.” Awekening. Alejandra Pizarnik SYNOPSIS: Embracing Death…