Marcela Santander Corvalán
Choreographer and dancer from Chili, Marcela Santander Corvalan is associated to the European projects Empowering Dance (2021 to 2023) and Dance Well (2022 to 2025).
Born in Chili,Marcela Santander Corvalan learnt dance-theatre at the Schola d’ Arte Dramatica Paolo Grassi in Milan, and then contemporary dance at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers, under Emmanuelle Huynh’s direction. Simultaneously to her formation, she studied history at the University of Trento in Italy and also received a degree in dance at Paris-8 University. In 2016, she took part in the Danceweb program, in the course of the Impulstanz festival in Vienna.
Since 2011, she has been collaborating as a dance interpreter with choreographers Dominique Brun (Sacre #197 ; Sacre #2), Faustin Linyekula (Stronghold), Julie Nioche (Nosamours), Ana Rita Teodoro (Plateau ; Fofo), Volmir Cordeiro (L’œil, la bouche et le reste ; Trottoir), Mylène Benoit (Archée). She also works in collaboration with Mickaël Phelippeau in Chorus (2012), Pour Ethan (2014), Set-Up (2014), Kritt (2016), Footballeuses (2017).
She has been developing her own projects since 2014 when she started a collaboration with the Quartz, City of Brest’s Scène Nationale, which offers her a ground of experimentation favourable to her personal projects’ implementation. In February 2015, she co-signed with Volmir Cordeiro the piece Epoque. In March2016, she created her first solo Disparue. In July 2017, she created MASH (withItalian choreographer Annamaria Ajmone), and in November 2019, Quietos au Manège, at Scène Nationale de Reims. In 2020, she signed with Hortense Belhôtea performing conference CONCHA - Histoires d’écoute. She is currently preparing her next piece, Bocas de Oro, expected for October 2022.
Marcela Santander Corvalan is at the moment associated artist at La Manufacture, DCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle as part of the device supported bythe Ministère de la Culture.