¿A dónde van las cosas? (2020)
¿Where the things go? We migrants, we have been moving so many times, that we have been release things behind us again and again.
Abril (2020) is a dance for camera that investigates with the emotionality, physicality and corporality of isolation. With spring as a landscape, April is the metaphor of the potentiality that lies in the future: the trees, still without leaves, have been preparing themselves and are ready to bloom again.
choreographic proposal: Vanessa Vargas and Mariana Alviárez
Video projections: Nela Cote
Sound design: Daniel Esparza
From the many ways in which people can disappear, by choice or force, invisibility is a social but also a political, geographical and cartographical fact. What are we to do with an unidentified body is not only a question for forensics, and in that sense, this piece explorers the notions of rootlessness, exile, and disappearing as an embodiment of invisibility, which we present not only as an internal journey, but also as a social and political phenomenon.
This piece was created/rehearsed through access to subsidized rehearsal space at the Mark Morris Dance Center, thanks to Festival Archipiélago de Movimiento, and Casa Belgrado in Buenos Aires Argentina.
The Forgotten,
or
Where the things go.
(2017)
Choreographic proposal Vanessa Vargas
Video projections: Marisabel Dávila Lobo, Vanessa Vargas, Daniel Esparza.
In this project we play with the feeling of being forgotten, suspended, in the middle, in a liminal space. Ideas around de-territorialization and the re-territorialization of the body in space_time relation are explored in this project in relation to migratory experiences. In this piece, we explore the embody of oblivion as a metaphor of exile.
LA MAREA (2017)
DANCE FOR CAMERA
Winner of the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist, Mariana Vega, is one of the most refreshing and sweet voices in the latin pop scene today. Mariana began her career in Venezuela, but her music has led her to perform live several countries in Europe and America including Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Chile and the US, where she currently resides. Her music manages to cover and mix elements of rock, pop, acoustic folk, and alternative / urban music. This is the official video of La Marea, her most recent single. Credits / CréditosProductor (Música): Julio Reyes Copello. Director: Gastón Goldmann. Productores (Video): Rafael Velásquez.
Site specific dance for a wall, (2017) explores the different meanings of a wall: barrier partition, room divider, enclosure, dyke, fortification. Each wall around the city is unique, with their own story.
Becoming invisible (2016)
This piece explorers the notions of rootlessness, exile, and disappearing as an embodiment of invisibility, which we present not only as an internal journey, but also as a social and political phenomenon.
Becoming invisible is a collaborative project created by Nela Cote + Vanessa Vargas, working across the Atlantic, between Málaga and New York.
photography: Andrew Ribner
Exoskeleton (2013)
Choreographic proposal: Vanessa Vargas+Mariana Alviárez.
Original music: La quinta Larva/Kreils García.
Caracas, Venezuela.
Exoskeleton noun, Zoology. 1.an external covering or integument, especially when hard, as theshells of crustaceans (opposed to endoskeleton ).
EXTRAÑA ALUSIÓN (2012)
Choreographic proposal: Vanessa vargas, Ana Elena brito .
Direction: Mirjam Berns, Taller de Danza de Caracas.Production: Taller de Danza de Caracas.
"Extraña alusión" (strange allusion) is a choreographic game than includes complicity and playfulness with no apparent narrative thread that invites the spectator to enjoy the beauty of movement by movement itself, as a divertimento.
