Choreosound - Charo Calvo

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Charo Calvo (ES/BE)

Master Class: Sound, kinetic energy and dramaturgy
Charo Calvo will present how she works with sound and music in relation to dance. Her specific interest and methods are concerned with: The role of the sound in the dramaturgy of dance and video dance. Manipulation of natural sounds. Internal movement of sound and its spatial screening. Kinetic energy of sounds/body kinetic energy. Sound images, mental images induced by a particular sound and its effect over the stage actions. She will also share her experience of collaborating with choreographer Wim Vandekeybus (Ultima Vez). The master class will give us perspectives and input to the working session in the afternoon.

Charo followed Physics Sciences studies at the University, but after three years she was unexpectedly engaged by a new contemporary dance company- one of the first in Madrid at that time - and her professional future was decided.

End 1986, Wim Vandekeybus made an audition in Madrid looking for young Spanish dancers for his first show “What the body does not remember”. She joined the Ultima Vez Company and moved to Brussels, the city where she lives since then.

In 1992, Charo decided to stop dancing and make music. She had studied singing and music theory and belonged to several rock groups in the early 80s. She re-started making experiments with her voice as well as with field recordings and all kinds of sound devices and later joined the Electro Acoustic Composition Course at the Conservatorium in Brussels, getting graduated in 1999.

Since then, she has been active as a composer and sound designer for dance, theatre, cinema and multimedia. Charo has worked with the most important companies and directors in Belgium and also collaborated in alternative projects and research labs around Europe. She’s a teacher at RITS Erasmus School of Arts and at Mons Conservatorium.