Gabriela Sanchez Troncoso

I am professional Chilean dancer and just finished Sistema Rio Abierto, Gestalt therapy training focused on the use of movement as healing. It gave me a new vison of what I am doing relating with dance, movement and the people and I lead groups with this system in Inverness and then at Findhorn Foundation for the youth experience week and also at Newbold House for adults with the workshop “Expressive movement for all”, currently I am doing workshops in Forres, Findhorn, Edinburgh and Spain.
I describe myself as an explorer and composer of movement and space and work mainly with site-specific movement, focus on the use of environment and what happens to me in it.

TRAINING
I have trained extensively in contemporary dance, under institutions, mentors and private workshops. My particular focus and passion is improvisation and release technique.
A small selection of these trainings are included below.

"Espai de Dansa i creació" contemporary dance school Barcelona. 5 years. Graduate in contemporary dance.
Instituto Del Teatre, Vic, Catalonia. 1 year. Graduate, ballet and contemporary dance.
"Art School Vic" Barcelona. 5 years. Graduate, Sculpture and Painting,
Gata Titania Dance theater with Professor Jordi Batista Milian. 3 years. Qualification in dance theater.
Student of tap dance in Barcelona and Chile. 4 years.
Vina Del Mar Theatre School, Chile. 1 year. Intensive training and study of Butoh dance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
I am the Founder of Cia.Arrozconleche dance company based in Barcelona.
As Director and choreographer I have devised and presented a number of performances.

I have experience as a performer in a variety of settings: touring, theatre performance, site specific performance, festivals, improvisation, collaboration and solo work.

Project director and dancer in Improvised performance. Through my most recent project, "To Inhabit spaces" I am learning to develop and manage improvisational performance: staging the improvisation within certain specific choreographic scores.

PERSONAL STATEMENT
When I dance I try to be authentic. Everything we learn we must unlearn, return to our essence and discover a quality within us that gives birth to "authentic movement".
Dancing is thinking with the emotional body, I'm interested in the development of emotional intelligence in the field of dance.

When I dance, all that I have lived, all that is stored in my emotional memory, becomes the movement. This is how I choreograph my solo work. ( for examples see: "Lugar", "I thinks that's true?", "Temporary Blindness", "Crow".)

The final element, to complete the composition of my work is the audience. Without them everything would stay in privacy, there would be no answer to all those emotions. They make us observe how far we can go, what our boundaries are in reality and emotion.
The audience dance too.