La bellezza ti avvolge

Performance. Group improvisation

Choreography: Meritxell Campos Olivé

Performers: Danilo Andrés Sepúlveda Cofre, Reimo Sandau, Marcela Giesche, Gearóid McCann, Beate Fisches, Martina Brodolini, Meritxell Campos Olivé

Camera and editing: Evangelia Kanteraki and Jonas Nieman

Location: Spanish Embassy Berlin

Year: 2015

About: In 2015, the Spanish Embassy in Berlin became the stage for a La Bellezza Ti Avvolge performance, a group improvisational performance choreographed by Meritxell Campos Olivé. This performance brought together a diverse group of artists from different dance backgrounds.

La Bellezza Ti Avvolge explores communication through movement, where dynamic physical dialogue replaces verbal interaction in order to create a shared narrative. Meritxell Campos Olivé made guidelines on interacting and listening to each other, ensuring that performers communicate according to their internal bodily reactions, leaving time for the complexity of each other's receptivity and spontaneous reactions. This method allowed performers to bring the body's autonomy into the conversation and decide whether and how to respond, reinforcing that a response is always present, even without a visible reaction.