How to look at and compose dance
With Marco Blázquez and Ana Cabo

 February 20, 25 (Looking at dance from science) and 27; March 6, 13 and 20. 
 From 13:30 to 15:30 h (12 hours)
 Investment: 45 € / Students: 15 €.

If you have youth card and you are not a UNAV studentyou can benefit from a 25€ discount voucher on the general rate. You can find out more here.

 25 seats

*Header image: OGMIA Eduardo Vallejo. Photo Alba Muriel

Aimed at students and professionals of the University and the general public, without age limit. It is not necessary to have technical training in dance.

(It is advisable to wear comfortable clothes that allow for comfortable movement, cotton socks so that you can take off your shoes and bring material to take notes).

Throughout 12 hours divided into 6 sessions and with the help of Ana Cabo and Marco Blázquez, participants approach dance as a field for the knowledge of culture and art.

Approaching knowledge through dance means opening up to subjective, emotional and artistic aspects, which contributes to generate deep and meaningful knowledge beyond thought. Analyzing its history leads us to an exciting journey through art, sociology and the concept of the body over time in different civilizations. 

Dance shares general aspects with drama, music, visual and audiovisual arts, but requires a specific understanding that allows us to enjoy and understand its beauty and complexity. 

PROGRAM

This workshop offers you the tools to understand, enjoy and appreciate dance, the creative and compositional aspects of choreography. The historical, creative and technical aspects of choreographic performance come together to provide an integral vision of dance. 

The 6 two-hour sessions combine compositional practice with theory. On February 25, a special session will be held: "Looking at dance from science" in which the relationship between dance and science will be explored.

The technical languages, the systematized codes, their influences, evolutions and changes, make up a dynamic and attractive content that ranges from the most technical to the creative, technical, expressive or compositional contributions of the main figures of contemporary dance. 

BIOGRAPHIES

ANA CABO

Founding partner of Cultoría Artes e Industrias Creativas SL, a company specialized in consulting, development and management of cultural, performing arts and creative industries projects and programs. She is currently artistic director of the International Summer Festival of El Escorial of the Community of Madrid, external consultant for the Cabildo de Canarias and for the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid, guest lecturer at the University of Navarra, Degree in Communication, in the subject Promotion and sale of performing arts and guest expert at the María Pagés Choreographic Center. Until 2021 she has designed and coordinated projects for the Elephants in the Black Box Company, a comprehensive and international project dedicated to the production, choreographic creation and promotion of young dance talents. In 2020 she was the artistic director of the Escena Estrena Festival of the Community of Madrid and of Baile de la vida, a dance at the Prado Museum dedicated to the work of Bosch.

She is editor of the first Cuaderno de Creación dedicated to Javier Martín, published by the Museo Universidad de Navarra. 

MARCO BLÁZQUEZ

Graduated in classical dance, expert in choreographic composition and Master in cultural project management, Marco Blázquez is a producer of shows, festivals and cultural events as well as an expert in systems analysis and development of cultural and artistic programs.

He has worked with important companies such as ballettmainz, Staatstheather Mainz, Mainz or Nederlands Dans Theater II, among others. As a creator, Obumbrate, Once Upon a Time When Pigs Were Swine, 1♀︎36 or No hay flores inútiles are some of his choreographic works of his own production as well as for professional dance companies.

Since 2021, he is the manager and executive producer of the Festival Internacional Madrid en Danza de la Comunidad de Madrid. He has collaborated in the coordination, realization and production of international events as well as in the artistic production of the company Elephant in the Black Box, in Madrid, and danceFORM, in Germany.