In I moved to Paris. I practice dance and writing. I work both alone and in collaboration with others. I sometimes work in precarious conditions, sometimes in more stable ones. I am investigating the political and socially conditioned use of the body in everyday life. I was interested in how social identity is constructed and questioned through the way we use our bodies. How do the ways we perform actions constitute and invent rituals that actually define our identity.
How having and sustaining a practice is creating an identity. Everyone has some form of practice. In may case for instance my practices include: Alexander technique, Iyengar Yoga, making Christmas cards, cycling, taking notes, writing texts, making dances, doing psychoanalysis β plenty of practices. Yes, most of the times. I wanted to open up to others a question I posed to myself. There is a whole discourse on the ways neoliberalism has taught us to think in products instead of techniques or to think of performance products instead of practices.
Our practices are means to connect to the world, rather than just to deliver and consume products. Do you want your questions to be addressed to the audience, to be stated as questions? I am not interested in art-form self-referential questions: what is dance or what is choreography.
Neither am I addressing the question exclusively to the dance field. Everybody has practices. I am interested in working through the use of movement and text. I am interested in the non-linear or non-narrative body, the ways we all have or assume multiple identities, the ways we engage with society and with the world. Ultimately, the way we are, is always in process, we are not products.
I am not interested in the audience in that sense. I usually ask myself the question of whether the audience made sense of my work after the show, so I guess it is too late. I am always searching for coherency and simplicity in my work and also consider the comprehension of the work.
