Creation, management and interpretation: Beatriz Fernandez
Artistic Advisor: Carmelo Salazar
Camera and editing: Elena Albert
Production: Las Santas
With the support of: Entitat Autònoma de Difusió Cultural (Generalitat de Catalunya), Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (Ajuntament de Barcelona)
With the collaboration of: La Poderosa, Apoyos a la creación y residencias: El Hueco, Encuentros en Magalia, Cèl·lula Pontós, La Porta 09 - La Caldera, L'animal a l'esquena , DAT/ETC (Las Palmas), Ca l'Estruch

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We are many bodies, as many as have danced.
We are little pieces and bodies of others, we are the remains of those bodies that have stuck to us and their future versions, their memory transformed.

The piece has two parts that share as a basic theme the idea of the dancer’s body as a living archive for data and memories experienced during their professional career.
The action consists in creating a mosaic from the remains of bodies from the past, a space in real-time where we can insert the spaces of memory, the bodies that were lived in past pieces or fragments of works that were never shown.
Said another way, it’s like going into the backroom of what is not visible, that part of the performer’s thoughts that the audience normally doesn’t get to see. This is all to do with reinventing oneself as a future projection and the good thing is it implies renovation.
By working with memory, working tools are created from autobiographical material; the idea of confession becomes a shared intimacy with the spectator; and the curricular or chronological sense of the artist’s career can be seen as a journey, or even a song.

BIO
BEATRIZ FERNÁNDEZ
Dancer and choreographer
Is cofounder of the Las Santas collective and artistic codirector of La Poderosa. She studied Contemporary dance and choreography at the Barcelona Institut de Teatre and complemented her studies at the Center for Movement Research in New York. She has worked as a performer for Danat Danza and works in close conjunction with choreographer Carmelo Salazar. During 2008-10 she developed a project based on the figure of the performer as living archive, which unfolds in two formats: an audio visual documentary, Los que viven entre si; and a performance piece, Tres personas, todos los cuerpos (Three people, all the bodies). At the moment she is developing Muy experimental, a research project that aims to become a constructive reality for creators.