MUNDOS, Varinia Canto Vila
MUNDOS
Varinia Canto Vila
4 September
9.30pm
50 minutes
Ferro, Central Elétrica
MUNDOS is a sensitive and personal reflection on Chilean society. “World”, among other meanings, is a word we use in everyday language to refer to a social experience that differs from another. Sometimes, our social interactions feel as if we are living in separate, compartmentalized realities.
The piece MUNDOS explores how language constructs realities, and how words in public space act as triggers for ways of life, ideologies, opinions, and collective resistance. Words mark lives, eras, and worlds.
MUNDOS moves through different ideological spaces and platforms of enunciation — not to explain anything specific, but to understand the constant and unstoppable “carousel of getting lost and found” generated in the attempt to test and probe realities, claims of universality, worlds – little worlds – worldlings… and other human needs to feel we live as a whole, in times marked by political and social injustices of all kinds and in a social reality perceived as fragmented.
Artistic Info
Creation and dance/performance: Varinia Canto Vila
Music: Loreto Rios Montecinos
Sound: Diego Gilabert
Lighting and costume design: Eduardo Cerón and Varinia Canto Vila
Light control system: Lucas Vásquez
Journalist: Anexi Duarte San Martín
Audiovisual: Emilia Pinto Labbé, Jaime San Martín, and Hurto Visual
Production: Marcela Olate Vega
Acknowledgements
Cristian Muñoz Zamorano, Tio Glenn, Jorge Canto, Gloria Alonso, Claus da Silva, Heidi, Andreas Bravo, Diana Ferré, Paula, Cecilia Iglesias, Víctor Andrés Canto Olivares, Natalia Quevedo, Pablo Antonio Guerra Castro, Camilo Parada Ortíz, Francisca Muñoz, Celeste Tamara Gonzalez Marchant, and Peggy Kuruz.
Support
This project is funded by the National Fund for the Promotion and Development of Performing Arts, 2023 call.
Bio
Varinia Canto Vila (Santiago de Chile, 1976) is a dancer, choreographer, and researcher. Her recent creative work explores the relationship between art and politics. In 2016, she initiated a research project on the connection between law and movement; in 2023, she created the stage piece Maneras de Salir, reflecting on the distances and closeness between people and their socio-economic and political realities; and in 2024, she premiered MUNDOS, based on the notion of a fragmented society.
She has presented her work in Belgium, Argentina, Poland, and Chile. Canto Vila graduated as a dancer from the University of Chile in 1987 and from P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium in 1999. In 2014, she earned an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths University, and in 2017 completed a postgraduate program at a.pass in Brussels, where she lived for 24 years and collaborated with numerous artists and choreographers in the independent dance/performance scene.
She has worked as a dancer with Meg Stuart, Moriah Evans, and Las Delíricas & Javiera Peón-Veiga in Chile, among others. She is also a curator and organizer of Noche de Performance in Chile.
Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Arts and Techno-Aesthetics at Universidad Tres de Febrero (online) in Buenos Aires.
