Over two days, Elena Córdoba invites participants to focus on an element that is often invisible, yet remains essential: heat. Heat as the fundamental movement of life. As a silent language. Produced and dissipated continuously — by the skin, by breathing, by hairs — here heat is explored as choreographic material and relational medium.
For decades, the Madrid-based dancer and choreographer Elena Córdoba — a singular voice in Spanish contemporary dance — has been taking on the limits of the body and of life, incisively exploring anatomy and the degradation of living matter. For her, anatomy is no technical or medical exercise, but a poetic journey towards knowledge: an attentive gesture that approaches the body with curiosity, care and imagination.
And what if the heat we emitted were visible? And what if it could renew our bodies until they became ether? This workshop imagines a space where air becomes a common fabric and bodies understand each other not through words, but through their shared temperature. An environment where the boundaries between “me” and “you” blur, and touch can be felt at a distance, through the tangible density of space.
The laboratory “Anatomia Poética” proposes a dissection of the living body — a microscopic act of listening to its internal movements, a dive into the invisible as a site of creative production. An invitation to understand the body as a landscape on fire, where heat is both matter and a metaphor for relating.
Biography
Elena Córdoba was born in Madrid in 1961. She is a dancer. Her work has been built through detailed observation of the body, the center of all her concerns. Her work is based on attention to detail, on a close look at the event. Over time, that event has become smaller and smaller, more fragmented, until it leads to a distinct space between the body and the physical, between the body and what surrounds it, around it.