The dance that creates us

Embryology and the Relational Origins of Creation

What can the formation of our bodies reveal about creative processes? This conference invites us to approach embryology as a dance that unfolds through encounter and contact within a fluid space. A process of breathtaking beauty in which form emerges through its relationship with what surrounds it.

Through the embodied experience of these fundamental principles, we will explore how the deep intelligence that organises our bodies can inspire the way we perceive, express and create.

What changes when we recognise space as an active force in creation? How can we allow ourselves to be guided by this primordial wisdom of the body and let what has not yet taken shape emerge between flow and space?

Facilitators

Mariangela López is a dancer, researcher, choreographer and educator. She is a Practitioner specialising in somatic therapy, a Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and an Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) certified in Body-Mind Centering®, as well as a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.

With more than 25 years of experience, she has developed projects in artistic, educational and community contexts, primarily in the United States and Spain. She has worked on integrating dance and movement into educational settings and collaborates as an artist and educator with institutions such as Mercat de les Flors and Institut del Teatre. In New York, she is part of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL), with which she has collaborated for more than 14 years, and has taught at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and worked as a teaching artist at Movement Research.

She also collaborates with CondeGalí, under the direction of Aimar Pérez Galí and Jaime Conde-Salazar, developing educational and pedagogical projects around dance and movement in Catalonia and elsewhere in Spain. Together with Sílvia Sant Funk, she also co-directs espaiAlafont in Mataró, a space dedicated to movement, creativity and well-being.

Her practice intertwines artistic creation, education and somatics through an approach that respects and pays close attention to the uniqueness of each body and its processes of transformation.