Dance | Performance | Work in Progress
Created by: Claudio Muñoz, Antonia Peón-Veiga, Rodrigo Sobarzo, Natalia Ramírez Püschel and Javiera Peón-Veiga | Artistic director: Javiera Peón-Veiga | Performed by: Claudio Muñoz | Sound design: Rodrigo Sobarzo | Lighting design: Antonia Peón-Veiga | Documentation: Natalia Ramírez Püschel | Graphic design: Simón Sepúlveda | Collaborators: Luc Delannoy, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, Luis Enrique Díaz-Lazcano, Andrea Moro, Daniela López, Núria Buch Canet, Mario Carreño, Camilo González, Paz Pachy Durán and the Soundlapse Project | Press & publicity: Graciela Marín | Virtual traffic consultant: Rossana Santoni | Produced by: Hammam | Co-produced by: NAVE | Project financed by a 2019 grant from the Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts.
Javiera Peón-Veiga
Director
Coreógrafa, investigadora, performer y gestora
The work of this choreographer, researcher, performer and consultant is characterized by the creation of immersive experiences with a view to reflecting transmutation rituals. Her interests lie in questioning the vague limits between what is inside and outside our bodies and between what is intimate and public, exploring breathing, sexuality, sound and steam as phenomena and subjects that can be studied.
She studied psychology at the Catholic University and then contemporary dance at The Place (the London Contemporary Dance School) in England. She specialized in choreographic research in France at the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers and at the Royaumont Foundation.
Javiera’s work has been performed in South America and Europe at different festivals and events such as MIRADA (the Iberian-American Performing Arts Festival, Santos, Brazil), Konstnärsnämnden (Stockholm, Sweden), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany), the SESC Dance Biennale (Santos, Brazil), Tanz im August (Berlin, Germany), the Sâlmon Festival (Barcelona, Spain), the DañsFabrik Festival (Brest, France), FIDCU (Montevideo, Uruguay), Archaeology of the Future (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Santiago a Mil International Festival and the Danzalborde Festival (Valparaíso, Chile).
She is one of the founders of the NAVE Center for Creation and Artistic Residencies and was a co-director there until 2019. Since then, she has been an associated artist at the center and part of its curatorial team.
This project won in the Theater Performance Design category at the LIT Design Awards in 2019. Find out more by clicking on the following link: https://litawards.com/winners/winner.php?id=2997&mode=win
On Instagram, @estoesunhammam
Website: http://estoesunhammam.com/
COLABORA
Showcase: Hammam
By Javiera Peón-Veiga
- Chile
- Spanish (no translation required)
- 70 minutes
- + 16
After the performance, we’ll find out more about the NAVE Center for Creation and Residency up on its rooftop terrace.
Hammam offers us the chance for a collective purge, inspired by the traditional saunas used in different countries and cultures for centuries. In an immersive environment, the play explores steam and sound as environmental and tactile entities, as well as bathing as a healing practice somewhere between something intimate and public.
'Hammam' is an Arabic word that means ‘spreader of heat’ and is used in relation to public baths that use steam to cleanse both body and soul. This performance involves an experience that envelopes us in an atmosphere full of steam, inviting us into a thermal transition between heat and cold, with an ionizing mist made up of sound that both breathes life into and invigorates us.
Hammam is a research and transdisciplinary creation project that creates a crossover between dance, sound art, performance, and writing, developing pieces in different formats such as sound capsules, an editorial piece, a dance performance, practices using the body, and steamy concerts.
In each function of Hammam, around 50 liters of water are used, equivalent to the amount of water in a human body. This water is collected and poured back onto the earth after each performance.
“In all of these practices, the aim is to cleanse, using heat to cause sweating and an artificial fever. This leads bodies to expand and transition between states, eliminating toxins and water in the body through circulation and movement, both inside and out, in a cycle of different states, from liquid and evaporation. These are all public experiences, social gatherings, touching on what is both intimate and collective”, explains Javiera Peón-Veiga, director of Hammam.
Showcase: Hammam
By Javiera Peón-Veiga
- Chile
- Spanish (no translation required)
- 70 minutes
- + 16
After the performance, we’ll find out more about the NAVE Center for Creation and Residency up on its rooftop terrace.
Hammam offers us the chance for a collective purge, inspired by the traditional saunas used in different countries and cultures for centuries. In an immersive environment, the play explores steam and sound as environmental and tactile entities, as well as bathing as a healing practice somewhere between something intimate and public.
'Hammam' is an Arabic word that means ‘spreader of heat’ and is used in relation to public baths that use steam to cleanse both body and soul. This performance involves an experience that envelopes us in an atmosphere full of steam, inviting us into a thermal transition between heat and cold, with an ionizing mist made up of sound that both breathes life into and invigorates us.
Hammam is a research and transdisciplinary creation project that creates a crossover between dance, sound art, performance, and writing, developing pieces in different formats such as sound capsules, an editorial piece, a dance performance, practices using the body, and steamy concerts.
In each function of Hammam, around 50 liters of water are used, equivalent to the amount of water in a human body. This water is collected and poured back onto the earth after each performance.
“In all of these practices, the aim is to cleanse, using heat to cause sweating and an artificial fever. This leads bodies to expand and transition between states, eliminating toxins and water in the body through circulation and movement, both inside and out, in a cycle of different states, from liquid and evaporation. These are all public experiences, social gatherings, touching on what is both intimate and collective”, explains Javiera Peón-Veiga, director of Hammam.
Created by: Claudio Muñoz, Antonia Peón-Veiga, Rodrigo Sobarzo, Natalia Ramírez Püschel and Javiera Peón-Veiga | Artistic director: Javiera Peón-Veiga | Performed by: Claudio Muñoz | Sound design: Rodrigo Sobarzo | Lighting design: Antonia Peón-Veiga | Documentation: Natalia Ramírez Püschel | Graphic design: Simón Sepúlveda | Collaborators: Luc Delannoy, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, Luis Enrique Díaz-Lazcano, Andrea Moro, Daniela López, Núria Buch Canet, Mario Carreño, Camilo González, Paz Pachy Durán and the Soundlapse Project | Press & publicity: Graciela Marín | Virtual traffic consultant: Rossana Santoni | Produced by: Hammam | Co-produced by: NAVE | Project financed by a 2019 grant from the Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts.
Javiera Peón-Veiga
Director
Coreógrafa, investigadora, performer y gestora
The work of this choreographer, researcher, performer and consultant is characterized by the creation of immersive experiences with a view to reflecting transmutation rituals. Her interests lie in questioning the vague limits between what is inside and outside our bodies and between what is intimate and public, exploring breathing, sexuality, sound and steam as phenomena and subjects that can be studied.
She studied psychology at the Catholic University and then contemporary dance at The Place (the London Contemporary Dance School) in England. She specialized in choreographic research in France at the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers and at the Royaumont Foundation.
Javiera’s work has been performed in South America and Europe at different festivals and events such as MIRADA (the Iberian-American Performing Arts Festival, Santos, Brazil), Konstnärsnämnden (Stockholm, Sweden), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt, Germany), the SESC Dance Biennale (Santos, Brazil), Tanz im August (Berlin, Germany), the Sâlmon Festival (Barcelona, Spain), the DañsFabrik Festival (Brest, France), FIDCU (Montevideo, Uruguay), Archaeology of the Future (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the Santiago a Mil International Festival and the Danzalborde Festival (Valparaíso, Chile).
She is one of the founders of the NAVE Center for Creation and Artistic Residencies and was a co-director there until 2019. Since then, she has been an associated artist at the center and part of its curatorial team.
This project won in the Theater Performance Design category at the LIT Design Awards in 2019. Find out more by clicking on the following link: https://litawards.com/winners/winner.php?id=2997&mode=win
On Instagram, @estoesunhammam
Website: http://estoesunhammam.com/
COLABORA