05/30/2022
Body Weather Laboratory presents
Flower of the Season 2022 dance performance
"Body as Evidence"
Andrés Corchero and Oguri
Friday, JUNE 24, 8:00PM
Saturday, JUNE 25, 8:00PM
Sunday, JUNE, 26, 4:00PM
Admission: Free
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flower-of-the-season-2022body-as-evidence-tickets-345092991427?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, CA 90291
Free parking at Electric Lodge
Body Weather Laboratory presents Flower of the Season 2022. Continuing a 19-year tradition of minimal yet encompassing the use of space and theatricality, this year's performances will feature Japanese dancer/choreographer Oguri (Venice, CA) with dancer Andrés Corchero (Catalonia, Spain) in an evening-length work inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the dystopian fable in which fireman burn books rather than put out fires and ignorant complacency robs humanity of spiritual freedom and personal dignity. Today, 70 years after Bradbury's prescient tale, written while he lived in Venice, CA, Oguri creates in the same neighborhood. While celebrating freedom of expression, the dance pokes at a culture of anti-intellectualism, fake news, anti-depressants, and hedonistic pursuits.
This project is funded by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and California Arts Council.
Video from "My Neighbor Sky" at Festival Grec/ Barcelona 2013 and 2018.
Andres Corchero and Oguri duet.
https://vimeo.com/375994714
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Dancer /Choreographer Andrés Corchero, a resident of Catalonia, studied contemporary mime and clowning for theater and circus and performed with Albert Vidal, Odin Teatret, and Shushaku & Dormu Dance. A tireless explorer of body languages, he worked in Japan with Kazuo Ohno and Min Tanaka, dancing in company Mai-Juku (1986-1995). Corchero concurrently performed his own creations internationally.
In Barcelona, in 1991, he began a long artistic relationship with poet and translator Feliu Formosa, receiving the National Dance Award of Catalonia for "El bufó sota la tempesta" in 2003. With Joan Saura, Agustí Fernández and Liba Villavecchia, Corchero formed the improvisation group IBA, organizing IMPROVISA Festival. He formed the prestigious Raravis dance company (1993-2012) with Rosa Muñoz.
In 2011, Andrés Corchero reunited with Japanese dancer Oguri. Their ongoing project "My Neighbor Sky" was performed in Electric Lodge, Venice, CA, the Creation Center l'Animal a l'Animal, the Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion (Grec Festival de Barcelona 2013), Joan Miró Foundation (Grec Festival de Barcelona 2018), and Teatro Principal, Palma.
He joined Morleigh Steinberg and Oguri's ARCANE Collective in 2013 to create "Return to Absence," inspired by Samuel " trilogy. Presented at the Electric Lodge, it premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival and was performed at NY Live Arts and the Grec Festival of Barcelona 2016.
2015, he danced "Sin respuestas" with musician Ivo Sans, MOCA Barcelona. 2019 he collaborated with the famous singer Silvia Pérez Cruz in "La Relativitat de la Bellesa" at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Classics Festival. In January 2020, he premiered "Absences (Padre and Camí de silenci)" for the Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.
He has collaborated with dancers, Hisako Horikawa, Christine Quoiraud, Frank Van de Ven, Angels Margarit and Ana Eulate, María Muñoz and Pep Ramis (Malpelo); musicians Jordi Riera, Horacio Curti, Christoph Irmer, Miguel Poveda, Joan Ollé (director), visual artist Jordi Rocosa, among many others.
Andrés Corchero other awards:
Applause Award 2002- Sebastià Gasch Award for the Performing Arts, together with Agustí Fernández, for the piece "A modo de esperanza"
Prize "Tal pas de la tarda 92" of National Radio of Spain for its multidisciplinary works with Feliu Formosa.
A native of Japan, Oguri is an internationally acclaimed dancer described as a master at redirecting the way one sees and encounters the physical environment, his dance emphasizing the unpredictable. A resident of Southern California since 1990, Oguri produces full-evening solo and ensemble work, improvising and collaborating with musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, and literature. He is an artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California, where he conducts Body Weather Laboratory training workshop, a forum for investigating the body and dance. He has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, New England Foundation of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, and Center for Cultural Innovation, The Metabolic Studio, The Japan Foundation, 2018 United States Artist Doris Duke Fellow
and among others.
Photography by Pep Daudé
Graphic Design by Kio Griffith
