Cutis Aserina / 2024
Cutis Asertina explores the narrative of the after party through the lense of the last person still standing. As friends slowly leave, through out the night, only one is left dancing amongst the chaos left behind. Stuck in a time loop of past, present and future the work delves into the music as a temporal vessel, creating a sonic landscape of climaxes. It is in the physical ecstacy of movement that the performance explores the intimate psychological space we inhabit when the energy is high and the dance floor is still warm. Cutis Aserina meaning goose bumps is the reflection of moments felt to the core that live on the surface of our skin.
Choreographer / Mila Fernandez
Performer / Mila Fernandez
Souffles / 2023
Il y a le premier cris, signe de souffle.
The two performances explored a structured Improvisation vocabulary researched previously in exploring the effect of different types of breathing and energize within the body. From repetitive loops, sporadic rhythms and small gestures. In collaboration with Michel Raji, this duet was a play that explored contact, solos and moments of juxtaposition and harmony.
The workshop explored ways to explore space and lenght in the body in a guided improvisation. Between play and activation the second half of the workshop used the body as a way to explore the space within and around us. Finishing with a guided relaxation, the body was rested to focus on the aftermath energy, warmth and electricity it left in the body. Setting up the day with an energised body, relax and aware of its full capacity.
Produced by Vedaart, with a premiere at the Collateral in Arles and a second performance at the Domaine des Clos in Beaucaire, the programmation also involved a two hour adult workshop with both dance artists at Parades, Arles.
Music / Raphael Elig, Capucine Demnard
Director / Jaques Connort
Dancers / Michel Raji, Mila Fernandez
Homenaje / 2021
The piece Homenaje was created in collaboration with composer Wassim Soubra and performed at the French Institute of Barcelona.
Links to Performance
Composer, Pianist / Wassim Soubra
Cello / Amaia Ruano
Violin / Irene Argüello
Text / Magali Mestre
Choreographer, Performer / Mila Fernandez
Film / Françoise Greenacre
Presented by Rosazul and El Surro
You Gaze My Body / 2023
I AM WOMAN.
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I depend live between only exist by your gaze
The gaze that makes me feel uncomfortable, seen, harassed, sexualised, pretty, sad, terrorised, that gives me rights, politics that control my body, that take my rights away, dictates what I should look like, allows me to speak or not. What did you see first? What body part? What were you thinking about? How do you feel now?
The piece is a score designed from contemporary dance choreographic practices to challenge the way we individually and collectively see woman in society. Taking inspiration from our female cis identities as performers we aim to make the audience reflect on their own biases about the female body. How we value ours? How we live in it? How it is not always a blanket of safety. Both performers perform a score aiming to use temporality to interact with the audience and reflect together. The performance is driven by the audience constantly. As an improvised score the experiment lies in the gaze and small gestures. A moment for change, a moment to look at woman as they are now and not what they could be. As young woman we want to claim our space and bodies as temples of care and respect.
Performed at Mill Bank Center as part of the Exhibition Mother Tongue: Bodies Beyond Words.
Curated by Naj Shirazi.
Choreographer / Mila Fernandez
Performer / Hannah Dowling, Mila Fernandez
Between the Depths of Sensation and the Everyday / 2022
Between the Depths of Sensation and the Everyday is an immersive installation across two connected rooms that explore the one year long enquiry of
This installation immerses the audience in the research process, enquiring the relationship between movement patterns and body memory. The process used multiple art forms to support the creative practice developed during this enquiry. Polaroids, three films and a writing task documented the findings and research process. In the second part of the installation a score is performed by two performers, inviting the audience to participate and continue the research enquiry through their daily actions.
Invitation from your body (2022)
No performance zone. Two performers begin. They continue until the time is up. The moment others enter the space they also become the score.
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The body is the score.
Photography, Videography, Curation / Mila Fernandez
Performers / Lauren Ainley and Joe Large
Lead Technician / Chris Proto