(Research Residence )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 01/07/2014 to 12/07/2014
Presentation :
On 12/07/2014 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Toni Jodar
After over ten years working to spread awareness of dance, Toni Jodar can confirm that the public like to hear about performers' experiences at first hand – "fragments of life". This brings them closer to the life and work of the artist and they feel bolstered by references that also help them to be a "better audience". Explaining things through personal experience is an invitation to the spectator to join the dancer on a journey he or she has already travelled. In Explica Dansa/Explaining Dance, Toni Jodar, an iconic dancer with a long professional career behind him, will relate, through personal anecdotes and experiences, the story of various experiments and languages of dance that have developed internationally and the influence they have had locally, from the 1970s to the present day.
The aim of this project is to revisit and build on his version of the History of Modern and Contemporary Dance, and at the same time to reflect on the role and value of dancers.
"After a few years putting words to dance, I have succeeded in coming up with a project that allows me to remain on stage in another way. Dancers of a certain age, most of whom have reached a stage of professional maturity and who have to abandon or reduce our activity as performers, ask ourselves "now what?". We still have energy and a bag-full of tools to go with it, our experience. My career has run from the late 1970s to the present day. This is a particular period, covering moments of history that I explain, easily and fluently through my activity because they are experiences I have lived through and because I know the creative processes from within."
In 2014 Toni Jodar is beginning on a new version of the History of Dance, a further step in the project www.explicadansa.com. He does this using words, movement, images and his own professional experience. During his residency at L'animal a l'esquena he will work on analysis, gathering and organising facts, as well as researching the gestures and movements of dance sequences.
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 01/07/2014 to 12/07/2014
Presentation :
On 12/07/2014 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
Toni Jodar
After over ten years working to spread awareness of dance, Toni Jodar can confirm that the public like to hear about performers' experiences at first hand – "fragments of life". This brings them closer to the life and work of the artist and they feel bolstered by references that also help them to be a "better audience". Explaining things through personal experience is an invitation to the spectator to join the dancer on a journey he or she has already travelled. In Explica Dansa/Explaining Dance, Toni Jodar, an iconic dancer with a long professional career behind him, will relate, through personal anecdotes and experiences, the story of various experiments and languages of dance that have developed internationally and the influence they have had locally, from the 1970s to the present day.
The aim of this project is to revisit and build on his version of the History of Modern and Contemporary Dance, and at the same time to reflect on the role and value of dancers.
"After a few years putting words to dance, I have succeeded in coming up with a project that allows me to remain on stage in another way. Dancers of a certain age, most of whom have reached a stage of professional maturity and who have to abandon or reduce our activity as performers, ask ourselves "now what?". We still have energy and a bag-full of tools to go with it, our experience. My career has run from the late 1970s to the present day. This is a particular period, covering moments of history that I explain, easily and fluently through my activity because they are experiences I have lived through and because I know the creative processes from within."
In 2014 Toni Jodar is beginning on a new version of the History of Dance, a further step in the project www.explicadansa.com. He does this using words, movement, images and his own professional experience. During his residency at L'animal a l'esquena he will work on analysis, gathering and organising facts, as well as researching the gestures and movements of dance sequences.
