Work with the remains

The creative process of Nunca quise renunciar a mi carne (2020)

Abstract

In this paper I propose an analysis of the creative process of the play Nunca quise renunciar a mi carne (2020), directed with Sofía Rypka, whose trigger revolves around the repertoire accumulated in the bodies and the concept of "reconstruction" taken to the individual journey of each performer. The original question of the work that organized both the creative process and the different seasons and revivals of the work was then directed to what each performer kept from his own journey and, at the same time, to that which was impossible to trace. We resorted to our own memory of the successive creative processes accumulated in our bodies with the aim of generating a retrospective and critical look at this set of past experiences, in dialogue with the analysis of a bibliography around the concepts of "archive", "repertoire", "recreation" and "reconstruction" that we put to the test and deformed to investigate our own languages in the creation of a new piece.   Then, I describe the stages of the creative process in dialogue with various authors, propose a series of reflections in the dialogue between theoretical research and choreographic practice and, finally, open the keys to continue in the next writings.