CARMEN LARRAZ, CO- DIRECTOR LA FAKTORIA

After completing my training at p.a.r.t.s in Brussels, I worked as a performer with various companies and independent artists: Salva Sanchis, Frey Faust, Deja Donne, En-Knap, Rital Brocante and with David Zambrano on the Rabbit Project. In 2013, I founded the company Dinamo Danza, and we have developed projects that have toured international stages.

I received the choreography award at the Solo Dance Contest Gdansk, with the solo ‘Dynamo’, and at the 30th Choreography Competition in Madrid with ‘Luces y Sombras’ (Lights and Shadows).

In my pedagogical approach, I involve research processes to share tools for research and choreographic creation.

In 2016, I founded Danzad Danzad Malditos, a dance festival in open and unconventional spaces, which I have been directing ever since with the support of
Pamplona City Council.

In 2019, together with Marta Coronado and Laida Aldaz, I co-founded La Faktoria Choreographic Centre, a space where I continue to work as a teacher.

I am currently developing a line of research focused on exploring the dialogue between dance and physics.

BLACK LIGHT WORKSHOP

Black Light is a workshop born from the dialogue between science and choreographic creation. Light is the source of inspiration for understanding how the body interacts with the fundamentals of physics to provide us with knowledge of our environment.

It starts with an exploration of the spinal cord as the centre of electromagnetic impulses that travel through the body beyond the limits of the skin.

We will work with the elastic and resistant capacity of joint tissues to understand the body as an energetic architecture in constant transformation.

The aim is for each person to explore the tools offered by the workshop to personally develop a physical vocabulary that dialogues with the rest of the group and with the lighting context proposed in the space.