Lorena Nogal x GroovyDancy
-You are an amazing artist. How did you develop your artistry along your dance journey?
Surely dancing and unconsciously generating a physical puzzle. Now, looking back I see that part of the work has always been to question the logic of movement, to play. Trying to break its natural organicity and generating the risk that modifies the initial expectation.
-What interests you about dance the most? When do you feel really fulfilled?
I've always been interested in the idea of change. I feel it's somehow connected to liberation and transformation. I like to be able to get to very different interpretative places and be able to find or release the tools I use to get to a specific physicality.
-How important is the individual process of improvisation and research?
The individual process is very important. I believe that in the search for oneself, in self-knowledge resides all the information that you can balance to get your full potential. The important thing is to be aware of your shortcomings and weigh them against your strengths, giving them the same value. And from there get your own voice, your own physical and mental speech.
-On the other hand, how do you define “technique” and what is its importance?
I believe that technique is a transitional tool that serves to define and be conscious. When something appears furtively, instantaneously, it is analyzed, understood, repeated and you are able to use it by relating it to a certain context, it is technical. But I think technique is an important layer of dance that needs to be balanced with discourse and interpretation.
-You have been working for several years in La Veronal. What does that company represent for you?
La Veronal is my home, it is the place where I have been, I am and I will be. The space where I have been able to develop my curiosity for movement, my tools and the codes that define me.
-You are a multidisciplinary artist. How do you relate to other art forms?
Art is everywhere and unconsciously it is part of our daily lives. I believe in subconscious pollution and in letting everything affect me and modify me.
-With some colleagues of yours you created Hotel Col.lectiu Escènic. As a choreographer, what are you interested in? And, what fascinates you in creating?
It is a project that was born as a necessity. We are a group of dancers with international careers; we choose with which creator we want to develop physically and vitally in each of the productions we carry out.
Now I am immersed as a choreographer and I bet on a freer creation to experience new places for me. I'm interested in looking at the psychology of the body, seeing how it exposes its own questions and answers. Keep playing and look for possibilities that generate new perspectives.
-What catches your attention in another dancer?
The presence. And those things that escape. The details that appear without judgment, that cannot be controlled, and that are the ones that most define us above all.
-What do you think are important qualities today in order to be a contemporary dancer?
The ability to live your own contemporaneity, not the system's. I mean listening to each other, taking the time to explore, to find and generate a physical discourse that you can defend naturally. Simply and hardly, to be today.
-How were you able to develop your own movement method Kova?
Kova is a team and time work. It is a variable vocabulary that is still in development and adapted to each context, and that has been slowly developed with the different dancers who have passed through La Veronal and who have put their creative potential under Marco's gaze and taste.
We have developed mechanisms of connection with the different parts of the body and angles of movement based on the dissociation and distortion of the body. And in those codes we travel with the freedom to be able to deform and personalize them making all the vocabulary our own.
-You are a freelancer. What are the advantages? And what are the most important qualities needed in order to be a freelancer?
For me, being a freelancer is being able to be versatile and moldable and be prepared to manage your perspective in front of the different creations or the different choreographers. I think something important to be a freelancer is the training management, the responsibility to review projects and the organization and production of the process. Observe your needs and see which project can feed you better at all times.
-Is there something you would like to change or challenge in the current dance world?
It would be important to change the immediacy or speed generated by the few economic resources.
-What is the importance of dance in our social community?
Dance is an essential and liberating communicative language in society. Its presence is a vital necessity and we can use it to channel the transformative power we have.
-Can you give some advice to young dancers?
We live in a time where society generates the need to be a brand and that is not positive. I would tell them that everything can be an option, and to take the time to find their own answer, let themselves be surprised. Because they can generate something from a new perspective that is great and personal.