BIO
Argentinean choreographer/performer and video artist, Rodrigo
Pardo
graduated from Dasarts-Advanced Studies in Performing Arts
(Amsterdam,The Netherlands) Theater School of Bahía
Blanca (Argentine)
and Contemporary Dance School of Teatro General San Martín (Buenos
Aires, Argentina)
His artistic work ranges from dance pieces and video, to
site-specific
projects with the utilization of mixed media. This interdisciplinary
practice is characterized by an special relation with urban spaces, the
use of movement as a tool to perceive time, and the
insertion of
constructed fiction in daily life as a way to open doors of awareness
on how we perceive reality.
Pardo’s production includes: Roof a live movie/Napoli (2009),
Roof a
live movie/Amsterdam (2008), Framing soul/ Ognat/ Tango
Toilet (2007), Una Toma( 2006), Dos
ambientes (2005), Round Trip (2004), REC 13:18
(2003) and Cuadrado Negro sobre Fondo Negro (2001)
His pieces have been presented at or by: Biennale di Venezia
(IT),
Napoli Teatro Festival Italia(IT), Dance Umbrella (UK), Festival de
Marseille (FR), Festival International de Buenos Aires (AR), Festival
Temporada Alta (ES), Centro Experimental del Teatro Colón (AR), Museo
Palazzo Riso (IT), Rockefeller Center (US), Fringe Festival Shanghai
(CN), Thessaloniki Film Festival (GR), Dança
em Foco (BR), Dance Camera West
(US), IMZ Dance Screen (SZ), Cinedans ( NL), and
many others.
He has been member of the Argentinean dance companies: Ballet de
Bolsillo (dir. Oscar Aráiz), Tangokinesis (dir. Ana Maria Stekelman),
Lesgart-Sanguinetti Company, Ballet Juvenil del teatro San Martin de Bs
As (dir. Norma Binaghi) and Ballet del Sur de Bahía Blanca (dir.
Violeta Janeiro).
His work has been supported by international institutions and
foundations like: Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Napoli Teatro Festival
Italia (Italy), American Dance Festival (U.S), Amsterdams Fonds voor
de Kunst, Dasarts, and TheTheatreSchool Amsterdam (The
Netherlands), Fundación Antorchas, Fondo Nacional de las Artes
and Prodanza (Argentina)
Rodrigo Pardo is currently living and working in Brussels.
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