Performance Corporalis: entre los sonidos y el sentir

Abstract

This creative research project presents how the marimba can be a focal point of research for artistic creation and development, from an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary perspective, fostering an artistic exchange with dance, theater, and painting. This was achieved and contemplated through personal exploration, a historical analysis of the instrument's technique and material, investigating its cultural, performative, and symbolic function, as well as the challenges it faces today due to the endangered nature of its raw material. This thesis was developed through various performative artistic encounters, which included contemporary dance, theater, and live painting. These encounters were part of a creative laboratory where different artistic aspects such as improvisation, repertoire, and extended techniques were explored. This process is documented through recordings and audiovisual material studies, and concludes with a concert that summarizes the entire methodology used during this process and proposes new interactions between the different arts and materiality. For this reason, the marimba becomes a reference and a medium to expand the artistic spectrum, reconfigure identities, and also create sensory experiences through the marimba.