works
vocabulaboratories
publication, laboratories, web archive
Vocabulaboratories is an ongoing collaborative project consisting of a publication, a web archive and a series of laboratory spaces for working on self-made conceptual vocabularies.
In this project, we work with the idea of a “vocabulary” as something through which we position ourselves, say things, and make sense in and of the world. […]
quintet
A performative installation
The mutelessness of the discourse, the soundlessness of the voice, the stillness of the body motivated the idea of this project for which we will start doing research on. The starting point for the work is to be seen in the relation of ‚love songs’ to their proper lyrics and the bodies […]
gesture 2 this is hospitality
A staged dialogue
Paz Rojo and Christa Spatt met in various situations as artists and curator. They were hostess and guest to each other, sharing proximity in the theatre and sharing ideas about theatre in talks. They appreciate that, even if they do not know or fully understand each other. In ‘Manual for a Promising Machine’ […]
basic dance
A duet with 2 solos
Paz Rojo created a solo and offered it to the dancer Cristian Duarte with her wish to have it translated. Two dancers entered the negotiation on the utopian moments of meeting, friendship and possibility and on the dystopian moments of lie, violence and fixation.
Basic Dance is a dialogue based on […]
gesture 1 this is love
A Letter
We come into the stage with a pack of envelopes in our hands. We place them on the floor. We start to read. The paper is translated into the language that is spoken in the land where the performance is taking place. In the two languages (my own and the other) a letter is […]
this body doesn’t have a title yet
a dance performance
Having asked where dance as spectacle is happening, ’This Body’ is a dance performance that stops: a situation where dance simultaneously negates and claims herself by dreaming of a body in a different way, and therefore designating for it a situation where to look at it.
The audience is invited to witness a Ceremony. […]
frames for moving
lecture/performance/laboratory
Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2001
In 2001 Paz and Litó wrote:
This proposal is an attempt to consider and share, together with the audience, a structure of THOUGHT and PRACTICE for moving bodies and dance discoveries. The idea is to let the audience A PROCESS of the body – in movement - within a set of […]
it’s my ass
a solo
‘It’s my ass you’ve been thinking about’ is a solo dance performance where the body attempts to perceive its immediate presence. Persistence-quiescent-wringed-stile-possesed, the tension of one longer for the other. The over exposed activity of the body is evocative, provocative, as surveillance skins in-between a sheltered site of contemplation.A desire: A destruction of one […]