Presentation of on-going work "Mix-en-Scene", by Amaranta Velarde

The Asturian dancer, choreographer and performer Amaranta Velarde, will be presenting to the public some of the research  and development process of Mix-en-Scene. This project is aimed at developing an acoustic-choreographic experience for the viewer. Currently living in Barcelona, Amaranta Velarde completes with this presentation to the public a production residency at LABoral, where she has worked on this piece that endeavours to construct the figure of a dj-performer at  the service of hyper-productivity and the reproduction of (sampled) historic and iconic fragments of dance and music.

During the research process Amaranta Velarde has worked with texts from Nicola Borriud’s work Postproducción. La cultura como escenario: modos en que el arte reprograma el mundo contemporáneo. The piece Mix-en-scene explores the strategies of edition, accumulation, juxtaposition, dislocation and discontinuity in the materials, with the aim of developing a composition between body, action, audio and other stage elements that result in new structures and versions of the historic materials.