Trànsits

Josefina Colli was born in Badia Blanca, the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1990. Influenced by a family of plastic artists, she decides to study visual arts teaching in the city, but at the same time she discovers the circus, exploring different disciplines until she encounters the Cyr wheel.

In Badia Blanca, she establishes the “L’enlairament” company, which will receive the support of the Fons Municipal d’Arts on various occasions, including for the “Entre nos” Cyr wheel production, in 2018.

Self-taught for years, she decides to grow artistically and travels to Europe where she attends the courses of the FLIC circus school in Turin, Italy. She continues her training and, seeking to expand her corporeal expression, she attends the Area Dansa Barcelona contemporary dance school, in Barcelona, where she now resides.

Following learning, research and development of both disciplines, she asks herself: How to create and develop a personal language where both disciplines can cohabit and articulate without evolving into a hierarchy?

Poética salvaje

“Poética salvaje” questions and investigates the relationship that exists, and still doesn’t, between the motion delivered through dance and the Cyr wheel, analyzing each of them separately, in order to bring them to the question-action: how can they be interwoven to find the retronourishing instant, flux and coexistence of both techniques, leaving aside the hierarchization and betting on democratization?

A constant dialogue stemming from a visceral place that has its origins in unanswered questions, poetic writings and antonyms, which could deserve organizing or not, but maintain the body-object in constant feedback, creating a free place without massacres where the body-object presents itself as a guarantee of the most concrete, of a movement truth.

A research work that receives its inspiration and nourishes from different dance writers and philosophers, as well as circus-dancers who talk about the body, the game and instant composition.

From a young age she’s been interested in stage arts, exploring dance and theater, to later discover the circus through the Center for Aerial Arts, in Santiago de Chile. Once she decided to make the circus her professional life, she trains at FLIC Scuola di Circ (2015-2017) and L’ecole de Cirque in Lyon (2018-2020), specializing in hand to hand.

She became part of the Michele & Francisca company, being co-author of the SIGNES performance, which toured in different formats between 2020 and 2022.

Currently she’s part of the COLLETTIVO COLLETTIVOM, with the Mariage performance (premieres in 2024), and the Q||MƎRA COLLECTIVE within REQUIEM -research for a non-organic performance.

Interested in music as a self-taught artist, she conducts audio research and musical creation using voice and a loop station. Also, she is part of the semi-professional, feminist choir “L’ebranleuse”.

La primera y la última

Made it to the end and now I’m at the beginning again.

“La primera y la última” is a thrilling, agitated and impatient creative process designed to give way to a mutant and transformative artistic experience.

Driven by the desire to rediscover myself on stage as a legitimate and artistically expressive body, I welcome this creation within the “essential research” program, a time to lose myself inside a space for experimenting and tearing.

Breaking down and rebuilding the languages I had previously used, to dive into a liquid and unstable means of expression where delimitations between each language are blurred.

Music, voice, movement, margins, political body, dizzy, new imaginary: a part of the threads that will interweave during the search.

Could be that all this is a good description of what I’m trying to do, considering that possibly, it will be the complete opposite.