Dance and Diaspora. Conversation series. Maria Pages in conversation with Rafael Bonachela

The Spanish dancer and choreographer María Pagés talks with the choreographer and director of the Sydney Dance Company Rafael Bonachela in the opening virtual talk of the DANZA Y DIÁSPORA cycle.

Registration is necessary to receive a reminder and to participate live in the talk via zoom * (at the end of the talk there will be a question and answer session with the audience).

The DANCE AND DIASPORA cycle Spanish Creators of the World is made up of a series of encounters with Spanish creators who have developed their careers outside of Spain or have had to leave it in search of professional development and are now back. The vital and professional processes of Ana Laguna, Rafael Bonachela, Nazareth Panadero, Goyo Montero, Ángel Corella and Sol León shake our knowledge of belonging and culture. His experience shows that the conventional discourse conceives culture, in general, and dance, in particular, as phenomena circumscribed to the scope of the territory. As an expression of culture, dance is also associated with difference, durability and popular anchorage. However, it is also evident that many of these personalities have been pioneers and promoters of globalization. They have assumed mobility very early as a factor of growth and knowledge transfer. Somehow they have ended up transporting their land, uniqueness and values ​​to other territories to dignify and enrich themselves with them. That is the founding principle of civilizations. This fact has consigned alternative meanings to dance, linking it to universes that transcend what we commonly understand as a country. In them, concepts such as the "I", the "you", the "Other", the "us" and the "you" are diluted and acquire a very special border significance. They are travelers in the classic sense of the word. Their role is to transfer their good sap from one place to another, because they have wished it that way or because circumstances have required it; that they live between and in different cultures and languages ​​is no longer an anomaly and becomes a natural gesture. With their work, globalization has created communication circuits that keep them in fluid contact with their cultures of origin, into which they inject innovation and universality through the work they carry out on paradigms alien to their cultural knowledge of origin.

Activity organized in collaboration with the María Pagés Choreographic Center, the Sydney Dance Company, the Cervantes Institute of Sydney and the Cervantes Institute.