a mix of things… some images from my graphic design work, drawings, amateur photos of my travels, or small interventions I've been trying to do in public spaces.

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though when doing coreography or lighting I don't like to think so much from the point of view of images, I think it's an important political tool to gain conciousness on the rethorics of images, to keep developing an awareness and sensitivity for them. the technologies seem to become more democratized (at least cameras and computers are cheaper and more accesible), but that doesn't guarantee a critical reading of the discourses of foto and video. producing images is a way of learning to read images.

In one of my most recent coreographies, 'The Factbook' (a.k.a 'New work', a.k.a 'A stencil with...', a.k.a. 'New York'), I worked with Stencils as an aesthetic but also as a productive process. Besides other elements, I used the production of stencils as an excuse to think about the rethorics of image and the rethorics of Politics, and the affective aspect of Politics. during the creative process we invested a lot of time in observing and creating images, leaving aside the question of wether those images would have an immediate application in the performance.

at that time, my sister had a baby, and I sent him a welcome present since I wasn't going to meet with him. the stenciled characters are Salvador Allende and Paulo Freire.

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fotos from Tokyo, September-October 2008. I was in Japan for two months, visiting, sightseeing, teaching movement improvisation classes and making a coreography with students of the Ochanomizu University Dance Club. we premiered the piece 'Japón' on the 17th of October 2008, in the Bunkyo Civic Center, Tokyo.

some drawings and a couple of posters I made as a goodbye present for my friends who graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam - the place where I am studying) in July 2008.

I have been trying to do some small projects about intervening the public space in a very subtle way. I like the idea of creating the potential for very small, intimate surprises: placing a poem, or an ambiguous 'slogan' in a rare and difficult place. I hope it can create a nice small experience for whoever finds it.

on top of that, I like the idea of appropriating the public spaces with an activity or gesture that maybe resembles but also confuses the realm of publicity and public communication. I think publicity (capitalism - consumerism) has been making a very clever use of deconstruction and post-modern discourses (or something like that), and I'm trying to explore if it is possible to subvert that - maybe it means reappropriating the same tools. that is what my fake publicities project is about, using those rethorics for ambiguous or bizarre messages, hoping to trigger some sense of suspicion and distrust.

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a few more fotos from Tokyo, and my first visits to Amsterdam and Frankfurt (back in 2005, when I auditioned for the SNDO).