Diego
Gil is a choreographer, performer and
philosopher that studied in Amsterdam at the
School for New Dance Development (BA), Das
Choreography (MA) and holds a PhD
from the Interdisciplinary Humanities
program of Concordia University.
During
2003 and 2013 he focused his research on the
production of stage performances projects that
were created via the articulation of somatic
techniques. The somatic techniques explored the
capacity of the incipient phase of movements to unfold a choreography of
affects - modes of feeling in transition-,
together with an expanded notion of the
environment - as a virtual ecology of entryways and
passageways of experience.
The
core question explored was (and still is): can
the practice of movement be the relational
element that carries autonomously (through its
own generative multilinear logic) the
composition of the contingent elements
populating the stage performances, such as
bodies, props and signs?
Some
of the themes that emerged immanently from this
question on
stage, were those of the ‘queerness’
of affective moods (rather than the body
perceived through categories of identity), the
experimentation on ‘collectivities’ based in the
break and regeneration of relations (rather than
in a consensual agreement based in the stable
position o personalities) and the play
with ‘ecological propositions’ in which the
categories of the human, the animal, technology
and nature where felt in their indistinguishable
mixture.
In
the frame of the PhD studies under the
supervision of Professors Erin Manning, Brian
Massumi and Alanna Thain, he explored the intervals of perception
(non sensuous perception), the production of alternative subjectivities (non
limited to the category of the human) and the
intuition of affective signs (the imperceptible
but affectively felt tendencies of an actual
situation that improvise a germinal future). The aim is to think alternative spaces for research
creation specific for the performing arts.
At
the moment he works in Montreal as an independent
choreographer and performer and as a mentor for other artists.
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