Maria Mora Alcolea: dancer, choreographer and improviser, facilitator of the Axis Syllabus, Instantaneous Composition and Contact Improvisation, and biodynamic craiosacral therapist. My career in dance began with an exhaustive study, looking inside the body. I am a member of the Axis Syllabus International Research Network, researching the anatomy and physics of human locomotion, as applied to dance. I teach regularly both at home and abroad, having worked in Chile, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Greece.
I have continued this interest from other somatic angles that propose listening to the body in movement at a cellular level. In this study I was fascinated by the poetry of the order and chaos in the body and the relationships between its structures, both at a micro level and on an architectural scale.
I carry this poetry with me into performance and on stage. My dance is an exploration of corporal, spatial and architectural matter. The body as a form that is full of meaning in itself. Fascinated by free improvisation, I try to understand nature in this way and study it. I have trained with and been inspired by the work of Julyen Hamilton, Katie Duck, Sonia Sánchez, Roberta Legros and Maya M. Carroll. I have been a member of the Col-ectiu Free’t since the start, working on the language of Soundpainting for live composition.
I have worked on various projects, such as Zum Zum Teatre, Imperdibles 21, Cía Alaka, Colectivo Free't, Duo Arima, Duo Dau, Proyecto Coordenadas, MOOM. And I have danced with such legends of music and dance as Núria Andorrà, Jordina Millà, Arnau Millà, Raimon Molà, Constanza Brncic, Roberta Legrós, Juan Carlos Lérida, Albert Cirera and Ramon Prat.