Artists Emma Biggé and Marcela Corvalan join Paula Montecinos and Flavia Pinheiro to reflect on ecosomatic practices and their role in shaping possible futures. Together, they explore how these embodied approaches can foster imagination, connection, and resilience within queer communities—both inside and outside institutional spaces.
English spoken language.
This THIRDtalk was published in 2025.
Emma Bigé studies, writes, translates, and improvises between the fields of dance, transfeminist and environmental studies. A PhD in philosophy, a curator, and a dancer, she is the author of Mouvementements. Écopolitiques de la danse (La Découverte, 2023) and Écotransféminismes (w/ Clovis Maillet, LLL, 2025). A Professor in Movement Studies at the Lyon School for Fine Arts, she develops hybrid forms between installation, lecture, workshop and performance, centering the interplay of somatics and activism in collaboration with Boris Charmarz, Myriam Lefkowkitz, A*Livingstone, Marcela Santander Corvalán, and most recently No Anger. She lives at the edge of a forest, and whenever she can, she rolls on the ground.
Marcela Santander Corvalán is a Choreographer and dancer from Chili, learnt dance-theatre at the Schola d’ Arte Dramatica Paolo Grassi in Milan, and then contemporary dance at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers, under Emmanuelle Huynh’s direction. Simultaneously to her formation, she studied history at the University of Trento in Italy and also received a degree in dance at Paris-8 University. In 2016, she took part in the Danceweb program, in the course of the Impulstanz festival in Vienna.Since 2011, she has been collaborating as a dance interpreter with choreographers Dominique Brun (Sacre #197 ; Sacre #2), Faustin Linyekula (Stronghold), Julie Nioche (Nosamours), Ana Rita Teodoro (Plateau ; Fofo), Volmir Cordeiro (L’œil, la bouche et le reste ; Trottoir), Mylène Benoit (Archée). She also works in collaboration with Mickaël Phelippeau in Chorus (2012), Pour Ethan (2014), Set-Up (2014), Kritt (2016), Footballeuses (2017). She has been developing her own projects since 2014 when she started a collaboration with the Quartz, City of Brest’s Scène Nationale, which offers her a ground of experimentation favourable to her personal projects’ implementation. In February 2015, she co-signed with Volmir Cordeiro the piece Epoque. In March2016, she created her first solo Disparue. In July 2017, she created MASH (with Italian choreographer Annamaria Ajmone), and in November 2019, Quietos au Manège, at Scène Nationale de Reims. In 2020, she signed with Hortense Belhôtea performing conference CONCHA - Histoires d’écoute. She is currently preparing her next piece, Bocas de Oro, expected for October 2022.Marcela Santander Corvalan is at the moment associated artist at La Manufacture, DCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle as part of the device supported bythe Ministère de la
Culture.
Paula Montecinos Oliva (CL) is an artist and researcher based in the Netherlands. Working at the intersection of choreography, sound art, and somatic practices, her work explores hapticality, sonic agency, and collective memory through the body. Her practice encompasses immersive sonic choreography, experimental luthiery, and live broadcasts developed in complicity with live materials. Through ongoing projects such as Sonic
Feminist Fabulations and Somatic Laboratory – Latinx Memories, she investigates listening as an embodied and emancipatory research approach. Her work has been presented internationally at platforms including Sonic Matter, Transmediale, Sonic Acts, WORM, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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