Artist Feature: Marianela Boán
Bio
Marianela Boán is an internationally recognized and award winning choreographer currently living in the Dominican Republic and one of the most important artists of the Cuban and Latin American dance vanguard. Her revolutionary style "Contaminated Dance" radically mixes all the arts associated with dance, producing an expressive and original scenic result.
As a choreographer, dancer, and teacher, Boán has worked in more than 40 countries presenting her works and giving workshops in numerous venues and festivals in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She has created nearly 70 choreographic works for dance, theatre, TV and film companies. She was a member of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba from 1973-1988, the founding director of the companies DanzAbierta Cuba (1988-2003), BoanDanz Action USA (2005-2010), and the Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporánea of the Dominican Republic (2010-2020).
Coreo videos en la libertad del confinamiento
CoreoVideos en la libertad del confinamiento. Coreógrafa e intérprete Marianela Boán.
Compilación de videos creados hasta ahora por Marianela Boán durante el confinamiento. En estos videos es el coreógrafo quien filma; sus ojos y su cuerpo. Las técnicas de la danza reviven en tensión con las del video. En el confinamiento, el espacio se convierte en múltiples escenarios y cada rincón es infinito. Los objetos, la luz, el sonido y la ropa estaban ahí muertos, esperando ser descubiertos en su potencia expresiva. Bailo con la cámara como partner, como público, cómo salvación, y todo lo que me rodea en el confinamiento es material creativo; el discurso temático y dramatúrgico, el movimiento y el cuerpo que logra sobrevivir, centauro urgente entre lo real y lo virtual.
CoreoVideos on freedom from confinement. Choreographed and Performed by Marianela Boán.
Compilation of videos created by Marianela Boán during confinement. In these videos it is the choreographer who films; her eyes and her body. Dance techniques revive in tension with those of video. In confinement, the space becomes multiple stages and every corner is infinite. The objects, the light, the sound, and the clothes were there dead, waiting to be discovered in their expressive power. I dance with the camera as a partner, as an audience, as salvation, and everything that surrounds me in confinement is creative material; the thematic and dramaturgical discourse, movement, and the body that manages to survive, an urgent centaur between the real and the virtual.
On Thursday October 1st, join Marianela Boán in conversation with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio about her artistic practice and journey, ending with a live question and answer opportunity. This conversation will take place in Spanish with English subtitles, questions can be submitted via live commenting in either language.