Pieles (Skins)

As part of the Amman Contemporary Dance Festival that is organized by the National Centre for Culture & Arts – King Hussein Foundation, we present the solo performance «Skins» (Pieles) by Spanish creator and performer of contemporary dance Paula Quintana.

Actress, dancer and creator, Paula Quintana has been practicing classical, contemporary dance and flamenco since early childhood. She has received the Canary Scenic Arts Replica Award for Best Interpretation 2019; First prize in the III European Contest for Contemporary Creative Women 2016; Special Award for Best Emerging Artist at the 2015 Umore Azoka Fair and two nominations for the 2016 Max Awards, among others. She is the current resident artist at the CDC of the Teatros del Canal, Madrid.

SYNOPSIS

To Live beyond the limits of conscience. To live between sense and feeling. To be free from knowledge and successes. To let go and float in silence after fighting against the current. To live in what is unseen. To live in the Skins.

An emotional journey towards reconciliation with the humanity of our feelings.

A continual struggle and the appeasing of our emotions. Battles shut in and protected under our Skins, in which the end is not victory but the mere feat of living and letting live against the common necessity to come to conclusions and to achieve. To try to be present in each and every moment, allowing the skins to smell, sweat, bleed, change and feel.

«Suffocated by the search for balance, I can breathe when I surrender to who I am in each moment».