IMAGINARIO CORPORAL: EFECTO MIGRATORIO
A piece that articulates identity and migration, with the body as a living biography made of two cultures: origin and host. Does every migration imply transformation along the way? From tectonic movement to frenzied dance, the piece reflects on the permeability of borders, bodies, and ideas, building an intangible territory.
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IMAGINARIO CORPORAL: EFECTO MIGRATORIO
About the Piece
This choreographic x-ray emerges from the collaboration between Carlota Berzal (Seville, Spain) and Cristóbal Santa María (Santiago, Chile), who come together to develop a stage research process centered on otherness, the strange and the deformed—fusing their distinct physicalities to generate an artistic coexistence rooted in diversity and embodying a new bodily state.
Both artists reconnect through shared experiences of mobility across different territories, now exploring a choreographic proposal that responds to contemporary issues.
The creative process is guided by renowned choreographer Poliana Lima (Brazil) and dramaturg Ricardo Mena Rosado (Mexico).
The piece invites us to imagine new ways of perceiving dance—through listening to the internal echoes of bodies and voices, integrating sound archives and traditional Spanish and Chilean music. From this, a series of bodily gestures emerge, along with a collage of images drawn from global culture and the performers’ lived experiences.
The work aims to fracture the conceptual foundations of identity by reappropriating symbols from personal and testimonial imaginaries, generating a new code of understanding. This involves exploring both internal and external rhythms, leading the audience through a danced experience that traverses memory and sociocultural elements that challenge our construction of self.
Trayectory
Temporada en GAM (Santiago de Chile, Chile 2025)
Obra seleccionada para promocionar la cultura andaluza en el TANZMESSE 2024 gracias a SGAE y Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales.
Teatro Central (Sevilla, España 2024)
Obra ganadora a Mejor Iluminación para Jesús Diaz Cortés en Premios PAD 2023
Teatros del Canal (Madrid, España 2023)
ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL CREDITS
Company in Residence at the Centro Coreográfico Canal, with the support of Teatros del Canal and the Community of Madrid.
Original Concept: Cristóbal Santa María Cea Creation, Production & Performers: Carlota Berzal, Cristóbal Santa María Cea Choreographic Direction: Poliana Lima Dramaturgy: Ricardo Mena Rosado Sound Design: Álvaro Mansilla Villalpando Documentation: Fernando Vílchez Lighting Design: Jesús Díaz Cortés Costume Design: Gloria Trenado
PRESS REVIEWS
“The show, developed during a residency at Teatros del Canal in Madrid (raising questions about the lack of support from public theatres in Andalusia), is formally beautiful, free of gimmicks or unnecessary elements. It possesses a rare cohesiveness thanks to the restraint and focus of its performers.
This balance also demands commitment and attention from the audience, a result of the choreographic direction by Brazilian artist Poliana Lima and the dramaturgy by Mexican artist Ricardo Mena.
A fine piece that avoids emotional blackmail, even though it’s clear to all that, in many circumstances, ‘surviving resonates more with death than with life’.”
(Rosalía Gómez, Diario de Sevilla) Read more here
The result is a poetically raw and movingly beautiful work: beautiful not in its ornamentation, but in what it signifies, in its capacity to map the inner geographies of uprootedness, revealing its nostalgia, its resistance, its ability to adapt and its contradiction. “Imaginario corporal: Efecto migratorio” does not seek to offer easy answers, but to inhabit uncomfortable questions. The spectator’s experience is reflective, emotional and deeply human, as it lays bare an urgent question: what transforms within us when our body becomes the only permanent territory, a landscape in constant redefinition?
(Luis Orellana, Santi Teatro y Danza) Read more here