I understand dance as a poetic and tangible reality that can evoke multiple dimensions
Improvised duo III
2021
Dance, Valentina Bordenave / Cello, Ulrike Brand / Premiere, Soundance Festival - Berlin / Curators, Meinrad Kneer and Jenny Haack
These two experienced dance and musical improvisers explore the shallows, slants and nuances between their disciplines. Individual approaches and vocabularies come together to weave new dialogues.
Plash
2020
Created and performed by Thomas Mayer and Valentina Bordenave / Premiere, Monopol, Berlin
Plash is something banal which becomes surprisingly important, the cumbersome side of a mesmerising transformation. Plash knows no rules or commonplaces. It is hungry for embrace, genuine protection, freedom and adventure. The piece is an instant composition duet. With their bodies, voices and some instruments at hand, Tom and Valentina begin by standing at the edge of their imagination, ready to enter it.
Entre Otros, Muack
2019
Site-specific Solo / Premiere, Experimenta Soma Butoh Menorca - Lithica, Ciutadella
It is a pleasure, it is curious, it is a problem, a complication, an invitation, a nuisance, a potential. Muack is one of many. There are plenty of them. Tlec, Kikl, Nocu and I don't know how many others. others. They inhabit me, visit me, leave and return. According to the day, according to the hour...
Detached
2016/17
Dance–theatre piece for nine performers / Premiere, Dock 11, Berlin / Co-directed by Valentina Bordenave and Natasha Nixon / Created and performed by Javier Ferrer Machín, Clara Gracia, Marina Rodriguez Llorente, Laura de Arcos, Filippo Serra, Piet Starrett, Yeri Anarika, Irene Fas Fita and Valentina Bordenave / Produced by the Anderplatz Collective / Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe / With the support of Dock11 and Familie Flöz.
“Detached” explores this ever-shifting relationship between one's inner and outer selves. We follow three characters in this dark comedy. A strange world where wandering souls float adrift, suspended in time until hope appears in the form of Mr X and his bizarre praxis. His world exists without shadows. Like the sun, he illuminates those around him, blinding them with a scorching sense of belief.
Broken Records
2013
Created and performed by Valentina Bordenave and Sebastien Thieme / Premiere, Teatro La Comedia, Rosario, Argentina
Accompanied by performer-musician Sebastien Thieme, Valentina Bordenave breaks in her movements the well-known with the distorted, beauty with banality. For each of the love songs performed, their characters develop a mini-show about love and loss, with strategies to deal with past failures and dry-runs for the coming low blow.