El poder en mi constitución: laboratorio de creación en danza y sus derivas

Abstract

As part of an investigation carried out in the press archive of the newspaper El Telégrafo, an approach was propose to use photographs and portraits, published and unpublished, corresponding to the subjects who came to hold the office of President in different instances of Ecuador as a Republic. The visual story generated constituted a creative material for the creation of a lab that worked on the gestural-corporal, from specific strategies, summoned for this particularly topic. The aforementioned laboratory was constituted as a bridge to correct the notion of theoretical reflection and creative practice as opposing axes of a falsely opposite relationship, and had as its axis the research project Al mando. The representation of power: theoretical, visual, and scenic drifts, an instance in which, from the archival excavation of a political issue, it was proposed to creatively represent a product that challenges power and evidences the way in which it impacts the corporality and the imaginary fabric of our social construction. These guided practices, with scenic, pedagogical, and inescapably political intentionality, managed to realize three different versions or staging of the same piece called El Poder en Mi Constitución.