Practices
Publications
Mari Paula's practice extends into research and writing: interviews, articles and audiovisual works that reflect on the anthropophagic body, migration and the relationship between dance and territory, in dialogue with universities and academic journals in Spain, Brazil and the United States.
Articles and interviews
“Mari Paula, una coreógrafa antropófaga”
Mariana de Paula Ferreira and Alicia Piñar Díaz (University of Delaware / Johns Hopkins University). Quiroga. Revista de Patrimonio Iberoamericano, no. 21, “Andalucía-América: Cultural Heritage and Artistic Relations”, University of Granada, 2022, pp. 310-320. ISSN 2254-7037. In Spanish.
View on Dialnet · Quiroga (UGR)
Audiovisual
Espacios habitados: cuerpografías para visibilizar territorios (2020)
A 40-minute video-dance documentary that shows, through the bodies of two dancers, the reality of three Cantabrian municipalities undergoing depopulation: Luena, Tudanca and Valdeolea. It brings together dance, visual installation and urban planning to reflect on “emptied Spain” in Cantabria. Premiered at the Filmoteca de Cantabria (Santander) in December 2020. Original soundtrack by Jaime Peña (JPEGr).
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Research and mapping
Cartografías Culturales
A regional, collaborative and interdisciplinary platform that maps the cultural resources of Cantabrian municipalities at serious risk of depopulation — local agents, disused facilities and intangible cultural heritage — and programmes contemporary artistic experiences in rural areas. In collaboration with Torreón Arquitectura.
cartografiasculturales.org
Cuerpografías
Research in dance and urban intervention based on the concept of “corpography” coined by architect and urbanist Paola Berenstein Jacques: the body as an affective cartography of the territory. Developed through residencies with local dancers in Cantabria, Pamplona, Seville and Mexico City (Centro Cultural de España en México / CulturaUNAM Festival).
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