This project stems from an inconsistency: a torn lack of desire and a need to do whatever I feel like. From there emerges a choreographic research obsessed with whim. Capriccio from Italian: a combination of caput (head) and ericius (hedgehog). The earliest meanings of the term appear in the 13th century, referring to the sensation of a sudden shiver, like when hair stands on end in fright. During the early Baroque, the meaning evolved towards a “sudden whim.” Within that same period, the term also began to designate a type of artistic form, a genre in music, painting, and architecture.
Como cuando el pelo se eriza is a choreographic project interested in playing with and digging into a semantic constellation derived from this sudden shiver: desire, class, and time. An impatient body inhabiting a relationship with an absence, a potential of something that is not yet here, is not yet, and perhaps never will be. This speculative potential feels extremely erotic to me, and I want to embody it through “perhaps” dances and “perhaps” songs.
Blanca was born in July 1990, during a torrid summer, in the Prosperidad neighborhood of Madrid before its gentrification, under a Cancer sun with a Gemini rising that counterbalances Cancerian melodrama. She lives between Madrid and Gießen, where she is completing a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. This July, she will also participate in the DanceWEB program במסגרת the Impulstanz Festival.