Type of work:
Contemporary Dance
Inclusive Dance
Place of show: Indoor
Duration: 60 minutes
Release date: 2022
Photography @Bubu“Arnasa” is an inclusive dance piece with professional performers and a person with functional diversity on the stage. The collective and inclusive creation has given rise to a scenic piece which speaks to us about how emotional changes affect our breathing.
Breathing should be as easy as looking, listening, sitting, speaking, dancing, singing, eating a banana or skateboarding. Yet, sometimes, it’s not so easy. What happens to our breathing when a situation changes us? When we experience apnoea, what happens when air gets in, but can’t get out and everything stops for a few seconds? You can’t stop breathing, even if you want to, not for a moment… We’re condemned to keep on breathing, to live with it and all its twists and turns, to coexist with its particularities and eccentric reactions. “Arnasa” journeys through all these very diverse sensations which breathing stirs within us: from those moments of total fullness in which we feel intimately connected; to those dark irreversible moments in which the lack or excess of air takes control of us, of our consciousness and of our will.
Inclusive contemporary dance: “Arnasa” is the result of the company’s need to open itself up to new perceptions. We enter into the world of diversity and work with collectives in our community in order to thereby strengthen the local cultural fabric.
To do so, several workshops were held with different collectives in Getxo. Therein, work was carried out through dance on feeling, movement and breathing with people with functional diversity. Out of this came the impetus for a process to create an inclusive dance piece with live music, which would make this collective central to the creative process.
Photography @Bubu
Photography @BubuORGANIK was founded in 2002, but it has been continually involved in creative activity since 2007. Since 2011, it has been one of the subsidised companies in the Basque Country (Basque Government Department of Culture) for its trajectory and educational project in schools with adolescents.
Natalia Monge has directed ORGANIK since its beginnings and her creations are based on personal aspects which are then translated into the universe of the present in order to share the human side which so unnerves us in this western society.
Out of a language between text and dance she uses movement as a vehicle of expression and emotions in order to speak about whatever interests her. In her compositions, she seeks out different landscapes through their connection with the sonorous world and, in general, from an ironic outlook.
Natalia Monge
Natalia Monge
