The Synapsis project, Inclusive Dance and Performing Arts, is an initiative of the Ruedapies Inclusive Dance Association, directed by Marisa Brugarolas together with Alicia Esteve and Luis Martínez, and promoted by the Culture Department of Alicante, Las Cigarreras and MACA with the support of the Art for Change program of the "la Caixa" Foundation.
Synapsis is an artistic-educational, inclusive and participatory project aimed at people with and without functional diversity over 18 years old to create a space for dialogue between contemporary culture and the personal and group experiences of the participants.
Through workshops in expressive movement, dance and interdisciplinary performative action, participants will approach active knowledge of their expressive capacities, using participatory strategies in which they will become active agents of their own knowledge. The personal and group transformation sought will come from placing their personalized movement and artistic expression in real and imaginary spaces that dialogue with their perception of the world, with art, with their inner and outer space, and with the group itself. With all the material generated, a unique performative work will be created arising from the appropriation of the work of art and appreciation of their experience and expression through the body and movement. This group dialogue will be generated through an interdisciplinary language in which contemporary dance as expressive movement, gesture, visual arts and music will intervene.
In this participatory, interdisciplinary and inclusive creative activity, people with functional diversity will be creative agents, and not mere reproducers of a given culture, thus promoting a social, empowering and lasting transformation over time.
The workshops, exhibitions and closing event will take place at the Las Cigarreras Cultural Center and at MACA from February 14 to June 10.
The professionals
A team of professionals in these areas will be in charge of guiding the workshops and interdisciplinary exhibitions open to the public, in which people with and without diversity will participate: Marisa Brugarolas, artistic director and teacher of the Synapsis project, is a choreographer, teacher and researcher of interdisciplinary and pedagogical inclusive processes. Director of Ruedapies Inclusive Dance since 2005, where she has directed extensive choreographic creation associated with artistic and training projects. She holds a doctorate in arts and extraordinary award from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with the thesis The Plural Body. Integrated Dance in Inclusion. A Renewal of Perspective. Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Arts, San Francisco State University, awarded a Fulbright Foundation scholarship. Graduate in Integrated Arts and specialist in Somatic Movement at Moving On Center, Oakland, California. Graduate in Dramatic Art from the Superior School of Dramatic Art of Murcia.
Her work combines pedagogical research and scenic creation, participating in festivals and spaces for contemporary art and performance in Spain, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, Costa Rica and El Salvador. Director of the inclusive dance project Corpo in Divenire, at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. She has collaborated in the implementation of the inclusive curriculum of the Dance Master's program at the National University of Costa Rica and at the Superior Conservatory of Dance in Alicante. Speaker at multiple congresses and seminars such as the IX Conferences on Social Inclusion and Education in the Performing Arts INAEM. In 2019 she receives the award from the II International Congress of Art and Diversity in recognition of her trajectory and work in the Arts and diversity.
Currently she combines her artistic work at Ruedapies with teaching as a specialist in Dance and functional diversity in the Dance Pedagogy degree at the Superior Conservatory of Dance in Alicante, while also being a research member of the RediArt XXI group at Carlos III University of Madrid.
Alicia Esteve, teacher of the Synapsis project, graduate in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and awarded Erasmus and Leonardo scholarships in Venice, Italy, where she had the opportunity to perfect her artistic studies in Anatomy. She participates in numerous individual and collective painting exhibitions in various Spanish and foreign cities, such as Venice, New York or Miami, obtaining various awards and recognitions. In 2021 she completed her studies in Contemporary Dance Pedagogy at the Superior Conservatory of Dance in Alicante. For some years she has directed her professional steps towards the teaching and practice of Yoga, completing a teaching degree at the international ETY Viniyoga school. Her growing interest in anatomy, introspection and artistic expression has led her to the world of Contemporary Dance and currently she combines the teaching of Painting with that of Yoga and Contemporary Dance in various centers.
Luis Martínez, teacher of the Synapsis project, trained as a Classical Ballet dancer at the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Novelda and later completed his Higher Studies in Contemporary Dance Pedagogy at the Superior Conservatory of Dance in Alicante, expanding his academic knowledge with an Erasmus scholarship at the Superior School of Dance in Lisbon. In parallel, he trained in Theater with the Carasses Company, of which he has been a permanent member since 2008. For his work in the company he has been awarded as best lead and supporting actor in different competitions at the national level. His artistic concerns lead him to become involved in the research of the performing arts, with the intention of contributing new territories in the field of dance, venturing into paths such as pedagogical research, inclusion through art or diversity and therefore of artistic disciplines in general, taking into account the ambiguity and multidisciplinarity of the creative processes in which our society is immersed today.
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