Lo que baila (That Which Dances) is a found form. A footprint. A residue asking to be selflessly enjoyed, in spite of myself. Lo que baila requires an attention that exceeds every category that I could ever impose upon it. Lo que baila is that which stays or remains. That which resists. That which persists: a surface, a rhythm, a dream. That rest of an organ imprinted on the floor. That hand pausing one second. That cliff I fall off, fully impressed. That corner where I choose to stay, where I choose to die. That bonfire that you gaze into. The ashes of a well-remembered profession. A secret. A mystery. A dancing that whispers an inaudible message. Lo que baila is almost dead. That has already been, a having been. The afterwards is all that remains.
There is again something in dance that I would like to underscore. […] Something like a surrender to that which dances, that which is all but casual, and when it comes to Paz, which surrenders after having conquered a space of its own […]”. Fernando Gandasegui.
“Resting in dance, never completing dance, with such a presence that it might be only possible when dance or the body or both cease to be dance, the body or both, and are both at the same time instead.” Kike García Gil.
“Every movement […] with such a heavily-imprinted rhythm. […] Everything is fuzzy but real, very real, on an irreal level, magical.” Rubén Gutiérrez.
This performance is part of a program that opens a reflection on the notion of transmission and critical thinking about practices and knowledges in performing arts today. A four-day program activated in different spaces of the Mercat dels Flors.
Paz Rojo: I carry out my practice on the intersection between practice-based artistic research and philosophy. I research on an understanding of dance that is open to impersonal and anonymous phenomena. I am interested in new ontologies and in the radical democratization that the speculative thinking brings to the forefront in order to find new potentialities for the artistic practice and for the creation of alternative ecologies in the field on performing arts, theatre and beyond.
Dance and sound design: Paz Rojo
Sound edition: Paz Rojo and Emilio Tomé
Technical coordination and lighting design: David Benito.
With the support of: Festival Domingo, curated by Fernando Gandasegui, La Casa Encendida 2021, (Madrid), and the residency programmes at C.C.C CondeDuque (Madrid) and Köttinspektionen Dans (Uppsala, Suecia). Thanks to: Los Barros (Carlos Marquerie and Elena Córdoba), Begoña Hernández, Norberto Llopis, Ancor Luján, Centro Coreográfico Canal (Madrid).
