Josefina Imfeld
wpZimmer resident in 2024
Imfeld (she/her) understands artistic work as a constant research and that is how she approaches all the projects she has worked on as a dancer, performer and director. One of the topics that crosses her practice is to rehearse systems of movements to expand their magnetic and perceptive field; for this, an intuitive use of writing, voice, sound and image. Assembling surfaces to make poetry, as an ecosystem of frictions between fantasies and questions.
She studied at Arte XXI, Contemporary Dance School and C.I.A, Center for Artistic Research and was a scholarship holder at the Action Lab at CTBA 2019. Imfeld received the Danceweb scholarship with the mentorship of Meg Stuart and Florentina Holzinger (Impulstanz-Austria) 2018. She works since 2010 for different choreographers: Diana Szeinblum, Ivan Haidar, Florencia Vecino, Laura Peña, Ximena Romero, Yanina Rodolico. Since 2017, Josefina works with Lara Ferrari in the collective ‘Methods to Survive’, making practices around dance, writing and performance. Currently, they’re making the Synchronization Practices Notebook as a way to collectivize and share the practice they invent while living at a distance.
projects
The Blue Hours (working title)
“In this project, we focus on bodily and listening practices that arise from the encounter with the blue hour in the forest, the space-time of the sunset that begins when the warm colors fade, the last moments of light before the night, the passage into darkness. For us, this is a transitional space, the threshold between seeing and hearing, a place of change where perceptual relationships are altered.
We work with the beings and narratives that inhabit that moment, both physically and symbolically. We want to build a performance that brings together these stories, a fiction of transition and of the space-time in between. An atmosphere of shared reverie.”
