Residency Paula Chavez at ICI – CCN de Montpellier

In the frame of the Creative Crossroad activity, Paula Chavez was selected by Veem House for Performance to receive a 2 years structural support by the LLB network to work.
She is receiving a co-production for her piece "Lx ChicxScratch" and a residency at ICI-CCN de Montpellier, another residency at MDT Stockholm as well as a participation in the educational programmes of ImPulsTanz, danceWEB or ATLAS.
View the production proposal in the right download column.

Paula used the residency in Montpellier to work on her production "El castillo hecho arte de concreto-cristal" .

Experience report by Paula Chavez:

In a castle disguised as a convent and then as a theatre, I camouflage myself in the French way or rediscover - digging up anger - the bastard blood that a French settler - without a name - bestowed on me. 

I am equally overwhelmed and rejoiced at the luxury, the facilities, and the amiability.
Glass box that contains the dancer in prison but also the promise of breaking and smashing the glass. 

The thousand and one possibilities of artistic research are reflected in the thousand pieces of broken glass; the castle-residence paradoxically embraces them all and without words gives them confidence.
The thousand pieces and multiple images, intuitions, routes surprisingly take all their own place and without precise coherence they end up belonging to a still but already powerful unnameable whole.

Thanks to the ICI for the trust, to Anne for the guide, to Thierry and Marco for the complicity, to Christian for the charisma and to the night ghosts for their company.