SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Ten women over the age of 60 will take the stage this Friday to present the result of the practice of contemporary creation carried out together with the dancer and choreographer Carlota Mantecón. It will be in the Espacio La Granja, at 8:00 p.m., in a free access session and in which the public will be sitting on the stage itself to live this experience up close.
‘Beginners’ is the result of intense work carried out in the days prior to this presentation, within the framework of a mediation project in which close to a hundred women have already participated in the last four years.
This initiative is conceived as a tool for visibility and significance for this group and as an artistic end in itself. A device only for women of these ages because, according to Carlota Mantecón, it is where people deprived of the possibility of experiencing different ways of being in the world, moving or thinking are most often found. Thus, ‘Beginners’ opens up a wide space where they can be together and explore from their own bodies.
In this scenic experience, the body of old age and the idea of opening a collective space on stage are valued. For this, sessions are organized in which dance, performativity, voice and sound editing act as activation tools. During this preparatory activity, the result of which the public will now be able to enjoy, they activate their bodies, their voices, enhance their ways and ways of being together on stage that go from an individual self to a collective we.
In this project, dance is understood as a channeling tool that generates awareness of one’s own body, space and its possibilities as an element of creation. At the same time, it opens up to new languages through sound exploration and uses the memory of the participants to extract movement and sound materials.
All these values contribute to opening up new modes of relationship between the group of women, promoting the exchange of experiences and multivisions with artistic practice.
The ‘Beginners’ project has the collaboration of multiple public and private entities, including the Government of the Canary Islands, through the Espacio La Granja and the State Public Library; Cabildo de Tenerife, through the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes; Tenerife Lav, Eima Festival, or the Keroxen Festival, among others.
