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IS MY BODY A HOTEL?
Choreography and Dance: Joelle Gruenberg
Composition and Live Music: Melissa Castagnetto
This performance is a collaboration between dance and improvisational live music (prepared drums). Taking inspiration from several traditions – Butoh dance, Andean mythology and music – the performance is also an attempt to sustain two distinct moments while coming together in an encounter that occurs somewhere in-between.
Is my body a hotel? has been presented at the Chapter Art Centre, Centre for Performance Research-CPR (Wales), Cruce Gallery (Madrid), Kagurazaka die pratze “dance ga Mitai 10-International Series” (Tokyo) and Teatro Pradillo as part of Butoh Week (Madrid).
JOELLE GRUENBERG Peru 1976
Lives and works in Madrid where she teaches improvisation and contemporary dance. She studied contemporary dance in Madrid and completed a degree in Dance & Choreography at Laban Centre, London. From 2001 she began to study Butoh in Germany with Yumiko Yoshioka, Yuko Kasekia and Atsushi Takenoushi. She co-founded DANZA TUPAC, a centre for performance in Lima where she currently coordinates the residency programmes. She has worked in collaboration with different artists such as Grupo Integro, Guillermo Castrillón, Marisol Otero, LOT Theatre group, Ten Pen Chii Art Labor, Anushiye Yarnell, Rafael Freyre, and Melissa Castagnetto. Her solo work includes Persecuciones (2004-08), Glamour (2006) and Is my body a hotel? (2007).
MELISSA CASTAGNETTO Peru 1977
Lives and works in London since 1998. Started studying music at Escuela Nacional Superior Folklore Jose Maria Arguedas with Eusebio Sirio “Pititi” in 1995. She studied West African rhythms with drummer and composer Miller Lowoje and has taken master classes on free jazz and improvisation with Michael Griener (Berlin). In the last ten years she has collaborated with various visual artists, musicians and collectives such as Adam Lipman, Kaffe Matthews, Makimono, Emma Hedditch, Marina Vishmidt, Antifamily, Morella Petrozzi, Alberto Isola, Joelle Gruenberg, Sonora, Music for One, Kinya "Zulu" Turuyama and The Mary Kelly Project and has performed at various International festivals such as The Oberhausen Film Festival (Germany), Whitechapel Art Gallery Music Nights (London), Kagurazaka Die pratze Gai Mitai (Japan), Forde (Geneva), and Teatro Pradillo (Spain). Now she is working with artist John Barrett making the music for Rhythm in silence, an audio-visual artwork.
