Moving Cuirness

A Public Activation by the Queer Malaise Study Group

Thursday, 20 October 2022 - 6pm
Admission

Free, until full capacity is reached, with prior ticket collection at the Museo’s Ticket Offices or on the Museo Reina Sofía website from 10am on the last working day before the activity. A maximum of 2 per person

Place
Nouvel Building, Protocol Room
Capacity
30 people
Duration

2 hours

Organised by
Museo Reina Sofía

Education programme developed with the sponsorship of the Banco Santander Foundation

When the Body Is Skin, dance and movement workshop with Marina Santo, Cuarta Pared, 2021. Photograph: Ana de Benito
When the Body Is Skin, dance and movement workshop with Marina Santo, Cuarta Pared, 2021. Photograph: Ana de Benito

Before the word queer was coined from “white academia”, cuirness already existed to make reference to the odd, the strange or the peculiar. On a daily basis, our bodies, what we are, cross through the strangeness of existence, movement and understanding divergently. Dance, movement, transit, collision, self-perception and the eroticism of dancing are actions with the capacity to shake the system of power and, therefore, make up cuir actions. For this session, conducted by dancers Marina Santo and Javier Vaquero, a space of being agitation is put forward through dance. A being traversed by myriad identities, and often nameable and tangible.

In Moving Cuirness, dynamics are put forward which are based on experiential anatomy through movement, sensorial exploration from being (in)touch, and rhythm; dynamics that work as triggers to generate, from the intimacy of present uniqueness, a collective dance where pleasure and freedom of movement take centre stage.

The activity is aimed at the public at large, although, with limited places, priority will be given to sexual and gender dissents and racialised and/or migrant people, as well as other non-normative corporalities. Comfortable clothing and dancing barefoot is recommended. Prior experience is not required.

Participants

Marina Santo is a dancer, teacher and researcher who has designed and taught dance classes, rooted in awareness and creativity, to different communities for over a decade.

Javier Vaquero is a dancer and transvestite who is forced into being a multifaced worker by capitalism. Her/his practice looks to facilitate encounters around dance with dissident communities.

Education programme developed with the sponsorship of the    Santander Fundación