Rara avis (un solo d’Andrés Corchero)

When I was a child, in moments of restlessness, nervousness or unbridled play, my mother used to say to me: "Be still, you look like you're doing the St. Vitus dance". This phrase has remained in my memory ever since, and although at the time I didn't know what she really meant, I have repeated it countless times in similar situations to other people.

Over time I have learned that this was said because St. Vitus was the saint to whom they prayed to be cured of an illness, the symptoms of which were to move uncontrollably and wildly, giving the sensation that they were dancing. There are many theories about this: some say it was an illness produced by a sting that affected the nervous system, others say it was an internal mental breakdown. What was very curious was that it manifested itself in a group, taking on the character of a dance and choreography.

Also because of the strange character of the movements, I have always found it fascinating for its expressive richness beyond the form.

These are the main reasons that move me to approach this fact from an artistic point of view. Thus, to become a sick dance body is to get closer to myself as a dancer.

Andres Corchero

With the participation of Andrés Corchero

Critics' Prize 2021 for the best Dance Solo for the show "Absències". National Dance Prize of Catalonia 2003. For his  artistic career and for the “El bufó sota la tempesta" in collaboration with the poet Feliu Formosa. Applause Award 2001 - Sebastià Gasch FAD Award for the Performing Arts, together with Agustí Fernández, for the show "A modoa de esperanza". Award "A l'pas de la Tarda 92" of Radio Nacional de España for his multidisciplinary shows together with Feliu Formosa.

Born in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) in 1957. He has lived in Catalonia since 1963. Honesty, risk and sensitivity are some of the qualities of Andrés Corchero's work. His shows are intimate, elegant and full of emotion, and his language is full of contemporaneity. A tireless explorer of the languages of the body and dance, in 1985 he became acquainted with Butoh dance. He travelled to Tokyo, where he studied and worked with Kazuoh Ohno and Min Tanaka, world-renowned masters. From 1986 to 1995 she danced with Mai-Juku, a dance company directed by Min Tanaka.
His career is full of collaborations with other choreographers: Rosa Muñoz, with whom she founded the Companyia Raravis; María Muñoz and Pep Ramis of Mal Pelo, Àngels Margarit, Hisako Horikawa and Oguri, the latter a Japanese dancer with whom she has worked closely since 2012. The delicate and precise quality of gesture and movement, added to his experience working with poets such as Feliu Formosa and Antonio Gamoneda, as well as his relationship with music with Agustí Fernández and Joan Saura, two important figures in the world of improvisation and music, and collaborations with figures such as Miguel Poveda and Silvia Pérez Cruz, are just some of his characteristics.
For more than thirty-five years he has been alternating his work as a creator with that of a teacher.
He has given classes and conducted workshops all over the world, and since 2005 he has been a professor at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

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