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Colaborador artístico invitado: Edgar Pol

Cuerpo de Baile fue un proyecto invitado de Espacios Revelados/Changing Places Guadalajara, una iniciativa que reunió a artistas, académicos, organizaciones civiles y vecinos para re imaginar espacios olvidados de la ciudad a través del arte y el pensamiento crítico. En este marco, 19 artistas trabajamos en distintos espacios abandonados o en desuso, imaginando nuevas formas de habitar la ciudad. La iniciativa fue impulsada por la Fundación Siemens Stiftung en colaboración con el Goethe-Institut Mexiko y la Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco.

Este proyecto partió de una premisa fundamental: para re-habitar espacios físicos y simbólicos, el baile es un punto en común. Desde el ritmo del caminar hasta los bailes escolares, los movimientos imitados de nuestros artistas favoritos o el clásico Caballo Dorado en una boda, el baile nos atraviesa a todos. Con sede en el emblemático Salón del Músico, nos propusimos rastrear la memoria bailadora de Guadalajara y, a través de los relatos recopilados, reconstruir la relación del baile con la historia, la identidad y la resistencia.

Durante el proceso propusimos tres abordajes:

🔹 El Baile de tu Vida: Instalación sonora basada en historias de baile donadas por habitantes de Guadalajara mediante una convocatoria pública, entrevistas a transeúntes y talleres en escuelas y centros culturales.

🔹 Pulso de Vida: Encuentro con bailadores de la ciudad—Ilse y Posh (danza contemporánea), Ariadna (folklor), Roberto e Isabel (danzón) y Motus Crew (hip-hop)—quienes compartieron su memoria de baile y su experiencia cotidiana en la plaza pública, la docencia o el salón.

🔹 Cuerpo de Baile: Una celebración final donde los protagonistas de Pulso de Vida y quienes donaron sus relatos se unieron en un festivo bailongo, formando un cuerpo colectivo de baile.

Relatores-bailadores invitados: Ilse Rodríguez y Poposhtlipitensi, Isabel Orozco y Roberto Mesa “El muñeco” y Ariadna Molleda González. Colaboradora en recolección de relatos y productora sonora: Mitzi Nayeli Pineda Sánchez. Coordinación de archivos sonoros: Elías Rocha. Productora: Ana Paula Uruñuela. Cuerpo de Baile no existiría sin la contribución de los habitantes de Guadalajara que compartieron sus historias de baile. A ustedes nuestra admiración y agradecimiento, siempre.

English

DANCE CORPS / Guest Artistic collaborator: Edgar Pol

Cuerpo de Baile (Dance Corps) was a guest project of Espacios Revelados/Changing Places Guadalajara, an initiative that brought together local, national and international artists, as well as academics, civil organizations and residents of different neighborhoods, to reveal and rethink community ways of returning to include forgotten spaces of this city in our daily lives, through art and critical thinking. Thus, 19 artists were invited to work in different spaces in that city that have been abandoned or have lost their use, to re-imagine the way in which a city can be lived. This was an international initiative proposed by the Siemens Stiftung Foundation in collaboration with the Goethe-Mexiko Institute and the Ministry of Culture of Jalisco.

This project started from the reflection that to re-inhabit physical and symbolic spaces, it was necessary to find a place in common: THE DANCE. From the rhythm of the body when walking, the dance that we reluctantly did at school because it was Mother’s Day; When together with friends we imitated the dance of our favorite artist, or when we danced any line dancing song at the wedding, the dance goes through us all. Having as its headquarters the emblematic Salón del Músico, in Dance Corps we set out to trace the dancing memory of the inhabitants of Guadalajara, and reveal from the stories woven from the idea of ​​”dance”, memories about geographies, historical, political familiar and intimate contexts,, where  dance was reaffirmed as bonding, liberation, resistance and living archive.

During the process we proposed three approaches:

The Dance of your Life

Sound installation where dance stories generously donated by inhabitants of Guadalajara are revealed, which were collected from a public call for donations of personal, family or public stories; interviews to passers-by and workshops / gathering in schools and cultural centers.

Life Pulse

Ilse and Posh (contemporary) Ariadna (Folklor) Roberto and Isabel (Danzón) and Motus Crew (Hip-hop) are inhabitants of this city that on the way to building this project, we are. From interviews, we re-built their dance memory together, so that in the end, on a Saturday afternoon, these dancers generously share what dancing means to them and how they live this activity in Guadalajara. Whether in the public square, in teaching or in the hall, their way of experiencing dance day by day in this city is inspiration and celebration.

Dance Corps

At the end of Pulse of Life, we continued with a festive dance for the inhabitants of Guadalajara who donated their stories to us, as well as with family and friends of the protagonists of Pulso de Vida, forming a collective Dance Corps.

Dance Corps would not exist without the contribution of Guadalajara inhabitants who shared their dance stories. To you, our admiration and thank you, always.