Concave Experience MACBA

Concave is a physical study based on the avant-garde work of Pablo Gargallo (1881-1934), a sculptor who explored the creation of volume using empty space, suggestion, and the reversal of the convex and concave surfaces of the bodies cast in metal. His increasingly minimalist forms maintained the extreme details of the real body. Borrowing his working methods, I recreate my own body in a new imaginary body. I define each stage based on the space surrounding it, cut up movement and put it back together in pieces, change its contours, and invent my own shape.

Concept, choreography and dance: Roser López Espinosa
Original music: Ivo Bol
Lighting: Israel Quintero
Artistic assistants: Isabel Ollé Carpintero and Susana Amarante Duarte
Acknowledgements: Renée Copraij, Ramon Tort, Cristina Campillà, Maria Campos, Jordi Solé, Núria Calafell and Lídia Puigdomènech

Created in residence La Caldera – Centro de danza y artes escénicas contemporáneas (Barcelona), Korzo Theater (Hague) and Dansateliers (Rotterdam). Co-produced by La Caldera and AREAtangent. With the support of EADC, Generalitat de Catalunya.
Runner Up in the New Tendencies Prize at the 2008 Burgos – New York International Dance Competition.