Videodanza
Director: Francisco Bagnara and Fernando Andreo | Performers: Daniela Briceño, Omi Campos, Valentina Kappes | Costumes: Valentina Astudillo, Matías San Martín | Music: Zevra
Francisco Bagnara
Director
A tireless researcher of the language of dance
Francisco holds a degree in Philosophy and Education from the Universidad de Chile and a degree in Performing Arts from the Universidad Mayor. Since 2003, he has worked in the Chilean scene as a performer, creator and manager, along with different choreographers and companies such as Danza Logunedé, Colectivo de Arte La Vitrina, Compañía de Papel, Espacio Arte NIMIKU and Compañía Danza JAM, among others. Francisco is also the creator and director of the contemporary dance project LAS DANZAS; a member of the Plataforma DanzaSur team, an artist-in-residence NAVE 2017 until today, as well as a choreographer and performer in several productions, and a teacher, manager and advisor for artistic projects both in Chile and abroad.
Fernando Antonio Andreo Castro
Videodance: genre that arises from the experimentation between dance and image capturing. It dates back to the emergence of video art and the beginnings of cinema, and its evolution runs parallel throughout history. It should be emphasized that these are not video recordings of a dance, but rather dance and camera establishing a symbiotic relationship. In such performances, the choreography process typically exists only on film or video. “Neither dance nor the means of manifesting it are at the service of each other. They are partners or collaborators in the creation of a hybrid form", defines American filmmaker and theorist Douglas Rosemberg.
Maleza | Danza
By Francisco Bagnara and Fernando Andreo
- Chile
- Spanish
- 13 minutes
- + 12 years
A play that transfers the concept of undesired weeds to the body and its movement.
Fernando Andreo (a painter and plastic artist) and Francisco Bagnara (a dancer and choreographer) have teamed up as a creative duo since 2019 to write Maleza. The piece represents an investigation of the body moving across the plain, departing from visual art, performance, dance and choreography; situated in urban, social and natural contexts. By definition, weeds could be understood as unwanted plants that interfere with cultivation activities and affect other plants which are cultivated for production purposes. From the perspective of the project, the concept of weeds is approached as a series of vegetal elements and/or human waste, coming from the construction, industrial and domestic fields, which have given support to the artistic work of Fernando Andreo, who collects canvases for his paintings, as well as materials for his sculptures and installations in natural landscapes. These collected "weeds" exhibit their exhaustion, their wear and tear, through their condition of garbage. Plastic, wood, metals and vegetation symbolize the complex crisis between culture and nature.
Director: Francisco Bagnara and Fernando Andreo | Performers: Daniela Briceño, Omi Campos, Valentina Kappes | Costumes: Valentina Astudillo, Matías San Martín | Music: Zevra
Francisco Bagnara
Director
A tireless researcher of the language of dance
Francisco holds a degree in Philosophy and Education from the Universidad de Chile and a degree in Performing Arts from the Universidad Mayor. Since 2003, he has worked in the Chilean scene as a performer, creator and manager, along with different choreographers and companies such as Danza Logunedé, Colectivo de Arte La Vitrina, Compañía de Papel, Espacio Arte NIMIKU and Compañía Danza JAM, among others. Francisco is also the creator and director of the contemporary dance project LAS DANZAS; a member of the Plataforma DanzaSur team, an artist-in-residence NAVE 2017 until today, as well as a choreographer and performer in several productions, and a teacher, manager and advisor for artistic projects both in Chile and abroad.
Fernando Antonio Andreo Castro
Videodanza: Género que surge de la experimentación entre la danza y la técnica de captura de imagen. Se remonta a la aparición del videoarte y los comienzos del cine y su evolución camina paralelamente a lo largo de la historia. Hay que resaltar que no son registros de una danza en video, sino que danza y cámara establecen una relación simbiótica. En tales obras, la creación de la coreografía típicamente existe sólo en película o vídeo. "Ni la danza ni los medios para manifestarla están al servicio uno de otro, sino que son compañeros o colaboradores en la creación de una forma híbrida", define el realizador y teórico estadounidense Douglas Rosemberg.
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