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Matteria
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Matteria
Matteria is a transdisciplinary dance company dedicated to performance, art, research and pedagogy, founded by Sara Willa and four co-creators in 2019. The following projects (La Extrañeza, AGÜITA, and ÁNIMA) are co-creations that involve sculptural works by Sara Willa. The company aims to use dance as an eco-political, affective, and pedagogical tool.
La Extrañeza
La Extrañeza (The Strangeness, or, Estrangement) is a performance process involving the collaboration of found objects. Attempting to relate to other material bodies from a state of permeability and curiosity, movement was developed by observing, imitating, listening, internalizing, and expressing the textures, sounds, and rhythms of each object. Inviting freedom from prescribed modes or meanings, La Extrañeza is a game, an experiment that asks the question: what happens when we try to let things speak to us? Naive aesthetics meet a surreal feminist machinery in queer-ing the everyday and turning function on its head.
Performance at Centro del Carmen de Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia, Spain. Construction of found object sculptures (concrete bricks, a tube feather tail, the skeleton of a mattress, a listening pipe, wood stick limbs, whistling tubes, a candle burning…) and collaborative performance.
AGÜITA
AGÜITA is a transdisciplinary research project taking place in the Ob Skena residency at Centro Huarte. Exploring material and sensorial qualities of the site (Navarra, Spain), a collection of found objects were improvised in relation to the body, while exploring the qualities of water. Processes of rust, erosion, freezing, and evaporation were contemplated in material bodies and then explored somatically. A creative and communitarian process was carried out during the six week residency, resulting in an installation of objects activated in a performance.
ÁNIMA
ÁNIMA explores material animacy and abject femininities using dance, sculpture, and ritual. Activated by sensorial movement, the Other Body sculptures collaborate as tactile and emotive relationships develop between bodies, human and otherwise, navigating the porousness between desire and repulsion, tenderness and violence. The performance project is a space to activate such questions as… how to inhabit the negated; how to act from the viscera?
Performance with Other Body sculptures. Performed at Sporting Club Russafa and Teatre el Musical (Valencia, Spain), within Cabanyal Íntim Festival. Residency at Sala Sabil (Asturias, Spain).