Olatz de Andrés’ choreographic project Tiempo como cuerpo researches into the ways our perception and experience of time can be transformed through movement like live action and writing, drawing and audiovisual as a register. The choreographer points out “It’s an attempt to learn how ephemeral dance and time are”.
The project will be activated in October with the premiere of Time is a Muscle, a durational experience piece where Olatz de Andrés invites the audience to perceive the presence of time as if it were another body in the space. In addition, there is an exhibition of some of her research and creation process materials plus video, writing, drawing and photography as a register of the ephemeral in Lantegia 1.
Olatz de Andrés is developing part of this multiple research process as an Azkuna Zentroa Associated Artist in 2024 and 2025.
Description:
Time as a body
it’s multiple
A thesis in 2020, “Time as a Body in Choreography”
A research process in 2021, “Hacer Tiempo”
Another research process in 2022, “Entre 26 y 62 Artean”
A durational experience piece in 2024, “Time is a Muscle”
An exhibition of the entire process until now 2024
A study and sessions about the time at Azkuna Zentroa in 2025
A publication in 2025
Time is a Muscle -a durational experience piece- is a July expression in Hamilton referring to the reality that time may be felt as if it were a muscle, i.e. as a part of our body.
We invite you to perceive and inhabit it through our bodies and other languages, i.e. a durational experience we cross together where you can observe how we tone, stretch and relax time, likewise how we make and do away with time. You can stop, stroll, go and return to it making your own time and spatial decisions.
The body draws, choreography writes, a drawing moves and sound is seen.
ARTISTIC INFORMATION SHEET:Idea, direction & creation: Olatz de Andrés Creation & interpretation: Pilar Andrés, Iñigo Rementería, Oihana Vesga Interpretation & participation: dancers doing the Mutis espazioa TIM module Direction, stage space & lighting assistant: Dani Hernández Drawing, fantasy & conceptual sensitivity: Ixiar García Sound space: Mikel R. Nieto Photography & video: Etanowski Accomplice: Robert Jackson Production & distribution: Vanessa Fuentes Sponsored by: Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao & Basque Government Production funds