Workshop - Gender, sexuality and dance

Workshop
Gender, sexuality, and danced movement

Fernando López

Instructor

Fernando López

Contemporary flamenco artist and dance researcher
Dance Department of Paris VIII University (France)

About the Instructor: He is a flamenco dancer, choreographer, and philosopher from Madrid. He has a PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts (Speciality in Dance and Arts of the Gestures) in Paris VIII University (France); a Degree in Philosophy in Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain); a degree in Contemporary Dance in Paris VIII University (France); a degree in Flamenco Dance in APDE-Cátedra de Flamencología de Jerez (Spain) and a degree in Creative Writing and Imagination Techniques in Escuela Contemporánea de Humanidades (Spain).

He has also studied a Master in “Philosophy and contemporary Critics of the Culture” and other one in “Dance research”, both in Paris VIII University, where he has also been a teacher between 2017 and 2019.

He has won the 1st Dance Research Award of the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España. He has been also awarded with the Best Dancer Award in the 19th Muestra de Danza El Álamo and the DanceWeb Scholarship in Impulstanz Festival of Vienna.

He has his own dance company since 2009 and he has presented few performances as Bailar las palabras (2013), H2OHNO (2014), Bailar en hombre (2015), Intimo Interior Meo (2016), DeCid (2016), Too easy to see (2018), Pensaor (2018) and, in partnership with Belén Maya, ¿Y después? (2020). In 2020 he created also “No hay bailarines en este país”, in 2021 “No más versiones: El Amor Brujo” and “El Movimiento”:

He has also collaborated with some of the most important contemporary flamenco dancers as choreographic advisor and dramaturg as Juan Carlos Lérida, Olga Pericet and José Manuel Álvarez.
He is author of few papers, chapters of books (see the complete bibliography here: www.lrparrafernando.com and two books: “Espejismos de la identidad coreográfica: estética y transformaciones de la farruca”, “De puertas para adentro: disidencia sexual y disconformidad de género en la tradición flamenca” (Egales, 2017) and “Historia queer del flamenco” (Egales, 2020).

Since 2020 he is a Member of the Performing Arts Academy of Spain.
Nowadays he is teaching as ATER in the Dance Department of Lille 3 University (France).

Workshop format

On-site

Gender, sexuality, and danced movement

In this workshop we propose, in a theoretical and practical way, a work on the fundamental questions of gender and sexuality related to the dance movement.

Initially, we will develop a proprioceptive work to bring out bodily habits in our “postural project” (what movement analyst Hubert Godard calls “pre-movement”), our expressive palette (the different qualities of our body language) and our relationship to others through various forms of contact.

In a second moment, we will go through the different strategies of “dissidence” in terms of gender and sexuality: cross-dressing, exuberance of clothing, use of “forbidden” areas of the body. , reduction of energy tone, nudity, etc.

Finally, we will work on the relation to the others from two points of view: the solo body and its relation to the spectator through the psychoanalytic notion of “scopic drive” (which implies a work on the own body as “erotic capital”) and “passionate couple dances” and its relation to the spectator through the question of “voyeurism”.

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