“It is hard to have a body, a skin surface so extense. I thought we coud remove our skin and hang it up on a rope “ *

*Tener un cuerpo.  Brigitte Giraud

“Imaginé cinco cuerpos y ninguno era el mío” is a project that gathers performance, art, fashion and architecture developed as a result of the collaboration between the choreographer Janet Novás and the artists Raque Buj and Elena Zapico (ZAP&BUJ). This project was presented for Veranos de la Villa at Casa de Campo Glass Pavillion, Madrid on summer 2019.

We conceived a project between a scenography and a dress, between the organic and the technological. We built a futuristic forest made with silicone and dichroic “skins” to be inhabitated by five bodies. During this journey, the biological body, its long hairs, its shapeless shape, coexisted together with inert materials (that not “dead ones”) rescued from the urban environment.  These materials, as technological trees, layed on the ground and rised up gently creating spaces for the dancers exploration.

These skins, holded to the ceiling structure of the pavillion, were rised up and down by the dancers with ropes and pulleys. The skins movements became the choreography itself, the sixth dancer. Floating at the pavilion space as a big dress; the a unique skin for the body and for Architecture. 

I imagined five bodies and none of them are mine. I imagined five women and none of them are me. I imagined big skins hanging to dress bodies. I imagined long hairs to caress a landscape. I imagined a future forest to dance and sing.

IN MEMORIAM  ZAP / ELENA 

Project by : Janet Novás + ZAP&BUJ (Elena Zapico and Raquel Buj) for Veranos de la Villa  (Maral Kekejian, artistic director)

Performers: Janet Novás, Candela Capitán, Raquel Gualtero, Laila Tafur, Victoria Martín _ Original music: Pablo Esbert _ Lighting Design: Maxi Gilbert

ZAP&BUJ assistant: Paula Ulargui _ Artistic accompanying : Pablo Esbert

Special thanks to Maral Kekejian to bet on this project and support us in many important ways. Special thanks to Cramen Granell , Virginia Martín, and many others who helped us to build this imaginary forest. 

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