Mission
and philosophy
(statement by Carla Barragan, Birlibirloque's
director)
Blending
the talent and art of other artists into my work is alchemy, and
the most exciting moment during my choreographic process. It continuously
refreshes my own language of movement and inspires me. Collaboration
became a goal in my work as I continued to work with new people
in each city I lived during the last ten years. Artists are channels
of information. When two artists create together the result is a
totally original and innovate art.
My inclination is to break boundaries and work with artists blending
medias in order to enrich the resulting work of art. I adopted this
purpose in my art because I needed to explore more than pure movement
and also understood audiences that believe modern dance is inaccessible.
Birlinirloque in Education
One
important path that Barragan is solidifying at the moment is arts
in education. Birlibirloque's repertory will soon be accesible to
residencies and assemblies for schools, and its content will be
age and EARL's appropriatte.
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Style
Birlibirloque's work reflects society's events, emotions, and aesthetics
through an artistic language based on dance. When Birlibirloque collaborates
with other artists it provides a thorough marriage of the art forms
to the audience. Barragan's style is an eclectic combination of the
postmodernist North American and Latin American currents, defining
its own movement style with principles of Limon, Release and gymnastics.
Her work fluctuates between dance-theater and abstract dance. In the
first one, she creates characters and movement from human beings'
emotions, and in the second one she uses movement to create texture
with which she unfolds a form of visual art, using the full stage
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