Prologue (desde Oasis of Serenity) is a crossover of visions and chemicals, where the body is in a state of constant crisis. There is no narrative, but the experience is felt: hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol drive a visual practice that seeks not to be seen, but embodied. The gaze flickers, cuts off the world, as a chaotic cinema emerges within the pupil. I explore the potentiality of physical and mystical states in a body that dissolves, reconfigures and beats to the rhythm of a constant emotional flow. Prologue (desde Oasis of Serenity) offers an opening into the unknown, a space where practice, ecstasy and transformation coexist, always on the brink of arrival. It is a chemical threshold where the body feels before it understands, overwhelmed by an outside world that passes through it in real time. The heart beats faster, waiting, always on the edge of arrival.
Laura Ramírez Ashbaugh (Madrid, 1988). Choreographer, dancer and DJ based in Madrid and Amsterdam. A graduate of RESAD, she has studied dance and choreography at Martha Graham School, SNDO and PAF. She is currently finishing her studies with the DAS Choreography Master in Amsterdam. Since 2014 she has been part of the Twins Experiment collective together with Ainhoa Hernández Escudero. She has performed at Mercat de les flors, Festival Grec, Center for Performance Research, Tanzquartier, Arqueologías del Futuro, Museo del Chopo, IVAM, CA2M, Festival La Becquée, Antic Teatre, La Casa Encendida, Naves de Matadero, Conde Duque and PAF.
Laura´s work is developed between the theatre and the museum space, having been part of the education-mediation department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía for the last five years and performed in galleries and museums in Spain, France and Belgium.
Currently her work is focused on images of horror, hormones and choreographies of the gaze, hosting multiple iterations of this research (performances, publications, and workshops).
