ELISABET SOLO
Each piece, a scene.
The body, space, time.
To move through emotions, or to let them move through you.
Each work belongs to a wider enquiry into emotion, the human condition, music, the body as a tool, the silences between the notes, movement, the field of neuroscience, expression, impulse and the stage.
My first artistic work of my own, performed at the legendary Teatro Principal in Alcoy. A one-off piece built on improvisation, reaching for a pure emotional language of inner dialogue.
This work is a visceral, cathartic solo. A language of its own: brutalism and poetic expressionism. Can the most intense emotions speak louder than thought? Take up more presence than the body? Can an emotion stand in for the self?
Photography: Diego Valor
Made inside a “skeleton building”, this project stands for deconstruction and for the image of whatever dances upon it. To fly over the void.
Beyond the visual poetry, it became a reflection on identity within a ruined space —body and matter— seemingly still being built. Deliberately abandoning its development turned out to be the key to the flight.
A performance collaboration for the acclaimed artist Rosana Antolí. This was the first piece in her long career as a visual artist to include dance.
Physical language, instinct and bodily action. Becoming the work, the canvas and the animal. An emphatic dance.
Experimental music: Pablo González
Artistic and choreographic direction, plus a solo performance.
An artistic collaboration and shared direction with the designer Silvia Soler, around her idea “La Mer Enchantée” for her first national runway show. In her staged fantasy the models stand for sea creatures and mermaids. The line of the sea falls away so its beauty can be admired. The depths of the ocean let themselves be seen.
The destruction of an art installation made by the students of the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Alcoy.
An experimental work matched with improvisation. A personal idea; to deconstruct what others have built, through vulnerability. The core of the spiral as one’s own interior. “A journey to the centre of the earth”. Reaching the deepest layer. Finding oneself. Matter is energy, and it transforms.
Materials: Paper and fishing line
A performance created for the work of the artist Rosana Antolí.
Research into body, time and drawing in movement.
A performance at Madrid Swing Exchange called “Red”.
A tribute to grief; to loss, sadness and love. From my own private place.
“Sometimes even dreams are a kind of mourning.”
Endurance is the last breath we give in tribute to what we have lived.
For me the Blues is not always blue; it is also red. Expressing the duality of grief itself, its hope and its struggle to survive even while knowing its own end is coming.
Poem: “Nothing Twice”, by Wisława Szymborska Live music: The Sentimental Gentlemen International festival: Madrid Swing ExchangeNew lines of research and creative processes currently under way.
Upcoming works devoted to movement, music, improvisation, poetry, jazz and contemporary languages. The body of work keeps expanding.