Mapping a Poetics of the South: An exercise in oral and bodily memories about the work and life of Argentine choreographer Roberto Giachero.
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In this presentation, we propose a memory exercise to activate the past in the present. Through existing documents, as well as testimonies of dancers from various of Giachero's productions and some of his students, we explore the choreographer's poetics and his role as a teacher. We immerse ourselves in what the traces and remnants reveal. We appeal to our imagination as a tool to connect with a dynamic past in dialogue with the present. We enable the experience of oral memory as a performative procedure with the aim of reflecting on his works, the passage of time, and how that dance reaches our bodies.
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