The tension between imagination and the physical limitation of each body is what sustains the continuous anatomical study of a body in its invention.
The practice prepares each participant, mentally and physically, to inhabit their anatomies, to reinvent their bodies and habits, and to generate a state of receptivity towards
all types of creation.
Invented anatomy – a practice
Created by Natalia Fernandez, Invented Anatomy as a practice is a technical inquiry into the tools that can serve (as basis) for perfecting the body in movement.
Invented Anatomy doesn’t distance itself from creation, but instead considers itself part of the same investigation.
Natalia supports her pedagogy with her long experience as a performer for different choreographers and directors, by her professional training in classical and contemporary dance, as well as through her experiences in oriental dance and Brazilian popular dance.
The fundament of this practice is to open up mental possibilities surrounding the anatomy itself through tasks that focus attention on the body and generate higher awareness as to what is being done, as well as of the consciousness that leads us to be in movement. Be that what it may.
Invented anatomy– body and imagination
The practice is a provocation of the body, by imagination. Movement is triggered in this way in order to better understand the body as a process, and movement as construction.
Anatomical and metaphorical images are used to generate new perceptions of movement and to open fresh pathways for the liberation of muscles, bones and organs, from already established patterns.
This provocation by imagery, that engages attention (imagination) together with physicality, is worked through technical tasks that involve repetition of the most basic, mechanical movements of the body, as well as through the study of said motions, together with that of any new constructions that may emerge.
In this way it becomes possible to observe the physical changes caused by imagination, as well as new imaginings that arise from the mechanical study of the body.