interview || Elena Córdoba

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Framework of the interview:

actor:
Elena Córdoba, choreographer

concepts / themes > lenses:

critical practices in ways of work and production:

- research vs. training – you give dance classes for a long time and are known as a good pedagogue; on the other hand, your artistic practice is research-based and you wrote a book – how do you consider the two, the research, reflection, and discursive production and the training? how you see them within education for artistic practice? what are the differences, or is the research an integral part of education?
- exhibition context – ‘white cube’ vs. ‘black box’; exit from the theatre and its genres (you performed in a museums);

critical discourses in medium and form of performance:

- your approach to the body: body as a material (the anatomy of the body, body as the object of medicine, body as a physical existence of a human being), and body as a social subject (the way we exist as social beings)
- interdisciplinarity – art and science; influence of visual arts; critique of the tradition of theatre in the 80s

critical practices related to the reflection: your informal meetings with colleagues and friends, as sharing and communicating artistic process

critical cultural policies:

- global view, internationalism vs. the local – you stayed in Madrid, all the materials on your web sites are in spanish…
- the importance of continuity – sustainability, survival and change

other themes:

- criticality at the performing arts scene in the 80s and today – a comparison;
- is criticality an important aspect of art? do you consider your artistic work critical? if so, please explain and try to think critical to what, and for what sake.

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interview || Elena Córdoba