Choreographic video art

Performing the city is a laboratory for experimentation on choreographic video art.

Through actions where the body, gesture and expression intervene in the urban context, an audiovisual discourse will be created using the mobile format. Beyond carrying out an audiovisual record, a proposal for action will be created on the performativity of the body, the city and the moving image.

1. Create a choreographic video art piece in a mobile audiovisual format with a maximum duration of 2 minutes to be presented in the final laboratory exhibition.
2. Address theoretical issues regarding the dramaturgy of movement, perceptual corporeality, poetics or ways of doing things and teaching methodologies and, in turn, observe the central practice affected by a certain field of questioning to discover other perspectives on the image of the body in the city.
3. Enabling other readings of the discourse of the body in the audiovisual format, giving priority to the performativity of the image over the technical production and editing of the selected material.
4. Reconfiguring a performative notion of the body in the urban context.
5. Generate meeting spaces to interact with similar and diverse knowledge.

The training proposal is based on the practical realization of bodily actions in relation to images, space and sound in the university environment to generate audiovisual tasks in the context of the city. Literacy and strategies on the body and audiovisual will be developed through viewing and analysis of pre-existing works and actions carried out in the classroom and as a directed activity.

The Laboratory focuses on participatory methodologies, with an approach to art and communication, as a space and time that integrates knowledge from practical experience. It is research based on continuous practice.

Leyson Ponce He is a Spaniard born in Venezuela. He holds a PhD cum laude in Dance Philosophy from the University of Salamanca.

He has taught at the University of the Arts in Venezuela, the National University of Costa Rica, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Central University of Ecuador, the Higher Institute of the Arts in Havana, Cuba, the University of Leiria in Portugal, the Laba Institut in Italy and The Opera Atelier in Miami, among others.

He holds a postgraduate degree in Choreographic Composition Studies (Aufbaustudium) from the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany. He is a guest choreographer and performer at Provisional Danza in Madrid directed by Carmen Werner (Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, Spain 2020 and National Dance Award of Spain 2007). He has performed in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia, South Korea and Spain.

Informative session

Sign up here to the information session on Monday, October 28 from 15:30 p.m. to 17:30 p.m. in room 103.