
DANIELA ANAYA AMAYA
Dancer - Performing Artist
Move, move, move, move, move.
What is dance? Movement and nothing else, breathing, the queue for the bus, the cycles of the city, the rituals of the Friday party, the quiet of Sunday. There is no life without movement and there is no movement without energy that is recycled over and over again. That is dance, my energy releasing and returning in constant cycles. I find in movement the most honest form of communication, the truth of the desires and needs of the body. A body as a means, but also as a cause and as a consequence. It is from the recognition of the body as a builder of knowledge and meaning that I can understand the world, my world.
Movement research is a fundamental axis of my process. Exploration and improvisation are the foundations of my work as a performing artist. I am interested in developing these research processes in three fields. First, the execution; I am deeply passionate about the work of a performer as a means of understanding, transmitting and connecting different worldviews. Second, pedagogy as a point of convergence of all other areas, as a space to nurture the scene from both execution and creation. I consider that receiving and transmitting knowledge is a way of creating community and particularly knowledge and the history of the body have a power of healing and creation of individual and collective identity. Third, creation; It is through choreographic composition and scenic creation that I find ways to create dialogues between different aspects of social reality.
I understand myself and build myself from dance and likewise, dance builds my body and my vision of the world. I believe that remembering that we are first of all physical beings will allow us to have a relationship with others and with ourselves based on respect for difference and the value of plurality. We are beings in movement and that constant change motivates me to continue composing and transforming my place on the scene.
