| Concept, choreography, performance | Daniel Mariblanca |
| Duration | 60 min |
| Part of |
CaDance Festival
Language no problem Roots & Identity Soulciety |
Do you want to add a theatrical dinner, deep conversations, and music to this performance? Then buy tickets for Korzo's Sunday Session: transcending gender.
71 personal stories embodied in movement.
Dancer and choreographer Daniel Mariblanca is not a complete unknown in the Dutch dance scene. But still not well-known enough according to us. His not-to-be-missed solo 71 BODIES 1DANCE is a perfect fit for this edition of the CaDance festival program, where worlds come together. It is our pleasure to introduce this creative artist to The Hague!
For Daniel, his own transitional period from woman to trans male was the right moment to start his own transgender inclusive dance company. Inspired by encounters with 71 transgender persons from all over Europe, Daniel developed the concept that led to 71BODIES 1DANCE.
Everyone who goes into transition takes a very personal journey. Daniel makes the subject tangible in a very humane way, arouses curiosity and brings insight. But primarily, he dances, ‘in the full glory of his own body,’ as newspaper Trouw eloquently described.
Daniel Mariblanca was born in Barcelona and currently lives in Bergen, Norway where he is part of Carte Blanche, the national company for contemporary dance. This was preceded by a professional dance career of fifteen years in Europe, after graduating from L’institut del Theatre in Barcelona.
From the time he danced with Carte Blanche, Daniel started his on dance company 71BODIES. With his company, Mariblanca uses dance and performance as a means to give artistic expression to the personal stories and experiences of people not part of the mainstream in order to find other ways of appreciating beauty.
| Concept, choreography, performance | Daniel Mariblanca |
| Photography artist | Mar C Llop |
| Filmmaker | Ursula Kaufmann |
| Music composition / technician | Gunnar Innvær |
| Music composition | Miriam Casal |
| Music composition | Florian Doerrhoefer |
| Artistic assistance / choreographic dramaturgy | Amanda Billberg |
| Light designer / tour technician | Jon Eirik Sira |
| Light designer / tour technician | Thomas Bruvik |
| Financial producer | Camilla Svingen |
| Company & Tour Manager | Davone Sirmans |
| Produced by | 71BODIES |
| Financial support | Kulturrådet, Fond for lyd og bilde, Bergen kommune, Fond for utøvende kunstnere, Vestland fylkeskommune, Nordisk Kulturfond, Norwegian Art Abroad NAA. |
"I find there is great beauty in the transgender body, precisely because, by looking at it, you are forced to reconsider conventions. In the world around us we are constantly confronted with conventional standards of what is beautiful and what is not. What is normal and what is not. I’m alone with my body onstage, and yet I don’t see that as a statement. It’s just the most direct form of communication; this is my most natural state of being."
— Daniel Mariblanca
Korzo Zaal