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Mónica Valenciano is the National Dance Award recipient  for  2012 in the Creation category.

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She dances as someone who “escavates” the body: a process of unearthing new pathways to help heed her hidden voice and reach fresh acoustic possibilities through the breath of movement, the multifocality of the body, the unfolding body, and body’s own polyphony.

Her practice digs into the ideas of dilating contact between space and skin; the discovery of new textures, tones and qualities;  capturing happening itself; and listening to the moving body as both instrument and as place of resonance.

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She explores “corpography”, an oracular dance that both informs and transforms the code of organic movement (along with its relational possibilities) and attends to the “space-time” between grammar and acoustics. She cultivates the art of passage, by the formulation of a language that does not try to explain anything, but to instead calls us away from the practical  perception of the moment.

To find that state of presence that intimately resonates through the viewer. To practice the ability to inhabit any space, segregating the fabric of a potential space or dramaturgy and becoming capable of capturing the intimate relationships between things. How to access a relational dimension? Collaborate with the act of emergence. Allowing something to appear is almost the fundamental movement. Learn, in each dance, to disappear better.

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On her journey Monica has passed through many different stations, giving rise to different pieces. To name a few, among others: The series of 9 "Disparates" (inspired by Goya's engravings), Labyrinth Song, A Fisherman with subtitles, Impregnations in Miss Snow and Guitar , Borrado En-Canto, Acoustic Printing in (14 erasers) of an appearance, in collaboration with Raquel Sánchez, El bailadero, produced by Naves MATADERO (Madrid), with the collaboration of L'animal a l'esquena, (Girona), Teatro Ensalle (Vigo), Estudio 3 (Madrid), Mnemosyna in collaboration with Patricia Caballero (produced by La Poderosa, Festival Salmon-Mercat de les Flors), Espacio Silvestre (El Graner, Barcelona), Mes de danza (Seville), Es full moon in the scar”, produced by NAVES MATADERO in collaboration with visual artist Elena del Rivero and curated by Mateo Feijóo. Additional video works include: Miss. Snow, made by Chus Domínguez; Octava Errante, a commission by Pedro G. Romero; Essays for Nada Y Ave, commissioned by Javier Corcovado and films such as I have come to Read the Night directed by Manuel Valdés and produced by Naves Matadero; the documentary La Voz del Cuerpo by Marta Blanco, as a record of a diary of essays on the acoustic printing process.