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Kian\u00ed del Valle<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is a Puerto Rican born, Berlin and LA based dancer, choreographer, director and performance curator whose expansive practice has taken her around the globe. From London\u2019s Barbican to LA\u2019s Getty Museum, she has collaborated extensively with some of the most exciting names in music and performance \u2013 Aphex Twin, LSDXOXO, Objekt, Floating Points and Zi\u00far, to name a few. With a background in painting and sculpture, Kian\u00ed\u2019s practice situates dance at the centre of an interdisciplinary ecosystem of art \u2013 in which movement, film, photography, architecture, cinema, installation, technology and sound work in symbiosis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt very misunderstood in the dance world,\u201d she explains to me, over the screen. She sits upon a green velvet sofa in what I assume to be a cafe, a faint chime of cutlery and cups the ambience to our conversation. Her dark curls are pinned behind her ears with a clip that she occasionally readjusts. \u201cThe way I wanted to dance when I first started was so transdisciplinary, and people didn\u2019t really understand. I really feel that dance is a synergy with other disciplines. It cannot exist alone. After developing my solo practice for nearly 20 years, I began to feel curious as to how I could translate that into other bodies. And I was also curious as to whether these other bodies too felt misunderstood by the dance world.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was this thought, this curiosity, that birthed the KDV Dance Ensemble in 2016 \u2013 since renamed the KDV Performance group. While Kian\u00ed had been touring solo for several years, it \u00a0wasn\u2019t until 2020 that the dance group had their official premiere at Berlin\u2019s Funkhaus, in collaboration with Floating Points, Lotic and RavenSince then, they\u2019ve performed at Biennales, Berlin Art Week, Berlinische Galerie \u2013 each performance more impressive than the last. Around the same time of these shows, Kian\u00ed\u2019s father passed away after a 32 year battle with cancer, which propelled her into a state of introspection. \u201cI had a lot of questions about what I was doing. I felt selfish for being an artist in Berlin, while my family was in Puerto Rico grieving this huge loss. I felt completely lost. But I sacrificed everything for my career \u2013 dance is the only thing I know.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":115836,"id":115836,"title":"","filename":"KDVPG-03.jpeg","filesize":435849,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/in-conversation-with-kiani-del-valle\/kdvpg-03\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"kdvpg-03","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":115832,"date":"2024-06-12 13:23:36","modified":"2024-07-02 09:05:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1280,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1280,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03-1536x1024.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-03.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1280}},{"ID":116219,"id":116219,"title":"KDVPG - Alvin 1","filename":"KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","filesize":414750,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/in-conversation-with-kiani-del-valle\/kdvpg-alvin-1\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"kdvpg-alvin-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":115832,"date":"2024-07-02 09:01:16","modified":"2024-07-02 09:01:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1280,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1280,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1-1536x1024.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Alvin-1.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1280}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Photography by Feyd Angeles @anqelznevrdie; Assisted by Romo @lokalshyboy. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

It was during this time that the concept for the group\u2019s upcoming show, CORTEX, at S\u00f3nar Festival was conceived. \u201cAround two weeks before my dad passed, he began to slowly lose his sight. When he started losing his speech, he began to write. But then he lost the ability to move his hands in that way, so all he had left was touch and sound. I\u2019d ask if he\u2019d want to hear a particular song, and he\u2019d squeeze your hand to signal yes or no. I found it really fascinating that even though he was losing the ability to speak, he still had his consciousness and could make choices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe interest and curiosity toward the human brain, particularly the temporal lobe and the cortex, fed into my writing and I started writing a piece called \u201cLobulo Temporal” or \u201cTemporal lobe\u201d, which is that part of the brain that my dad last had activated. I started doing research into the gamma waves inside the brain, and found that the brain stays alive for a long time despite being inside a dying body \u2013 which would essentially prove the hypothesis of life flashing before your eyes when you die. This formed the basis of what then became CORTEX. But, when it came to rehearsing with the group, it just felt too emotional. It was too soon and I couldn\u2019t continue it. And so, it was put it in a drawer for a while.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the idea remained tucked away, Kian\u00ed centred her focus on reframing the ensemble into something she felt more aligned with as a multidisciplinary artist. She shifted the name from \u201cDance Ensemble\u201d to \u201cPerformance Group\u201d. The word performance, she feels, bears more freedom in terms of the potentiality of movement and what\u2019s possible within it. Dance, on the other hand, still seems to have associations with institutionalised ways of working and thinking \u2013 something which, from what I understand about Kian\u00ed, doesn\u2019t align with her method of working.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the group has my name, it\u2019s very much a relationship of sharing. Nobody is above the other, there\u2019s no hierarchy. Creation is a space for all of us, and we\u2019re all equally important to the process. I think that’s something that for most dancers working with me, they really appreciate that. Because, you know, it’s very rare to work in a dance company like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until S\u00f3nar reached out to Kian\u00ed to produce something for this year\u2019s edition, that the idea deep inside that drawer came back into play. Prior to this collaboration, Kian\u00ed has worked with S\u00f3nar on a number of dance pieces for musicians and as a perfomer in her own right at the festival \u2013 but this year is a little different. Rather than allowing dance to fade into the background of the music, S\u00f3nar are positioning dance at the foreground as its own medium entirely (and, rightly so), which makes this year\u2019s edition incredibly interesting. Instead of being asked to compose a piece for a musician, Kian\u00ed was asked to choreograph an entire performance with her dance group \u2013 their first since the \u201crebranding\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":115833,"id":115833,"title":"KDVPG - 04","filename":"KDVPG-04.jpg","filesize":242728,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/in-conversation-with-kiani-del-valle\/kdvpg-04\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"kdvpg-04","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":115832,"date":"2024-06-12 13:22:00","modified":"2024-07-02 09:05:51","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1280,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1280,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-04.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1280}},{"ID":116220,"id":116220,"title":"KDVPG - Amanda 1","filename":"KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","filesize":396368,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/in-conversation-with-kiani-del-valle\/kdvpg-amanda-1\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"kdvpg-amanda-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":115832,"date":"2024-07-02 09:01:29","modified":"2024-07-02 09:01:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1280,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1280,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1280,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1-1536x1024.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KDVPG-Amanda-1.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1280}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Photography by Feyd Angeles @anqelznevrdie; Assisted by Romo @lokalshyboy. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

\u201cIt felt like the perfect moment to bring out the idea of CORTEX,\u201d she begins. \u201cI already have had four years of therapy. I feel so grateful to be my father\u2019s daughter, and to perform this piece at this year\u2019s edition of the festival feels like the best way to honour him. Working with other dancers is really interesting too, once you share an idea with them it becomes theirs too. And they can embody and interpret it in their own way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow did it work, with translating such an emotional experience into the bodies of others?\u201d I ask.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has their own history and their own experiences and their own knowledge. We all see the world in different ways. Every performance group is just a way to bring those ideas into more entities. Therefore crazy things happen after that. And it’s always super revealing. I spoke to the group about the gamma waves, and this sort of intangible limbo between life and death. I asked people what would keep them in the limbo, and what would bring them back out of it, back to life. It was a really beautiful sharing experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat keeps you in limbo?\u201d I ask.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGrief and love. I feel I am good at creating community, I have a big motherly energy formed by the loss that I\u2019ve gone through in my life. I keep going, even when things are crumbling down.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CORTEX, then, is a piece that resumes and encapsulates four years of healing. The show, split into four acts, explores sites of displacement and solitude, questioning their psychological state through somatic embodiment. Act one encapsulates the limbo, each dancer tailoring the idea of limbo to their own lives. The second act is the invocation \u2013 the thing that takes one from the state of limbo. Act three is collective awakening, which is the introduction of the dancers moving together \u2013 and then the final and fourth act is these bodies reaching the real world once again. Visuals become catalysts in the story and existence of the movers, with Barcelona-based visual artists Hamill Industries creating the projected imagery, the fourth year Kian\u00ed is collaborating with them.<\/p>\n

Rhythmic musical patterns, constructed by Tayhana<\/a> (the Argentinian DJ, producer and central figure in the Club Latinx genre) shatter the confines of corporal isolation. Tayhana\u2019s process, Kian\u00ed explains, was watching the dance and responding directly to what unfolded. \u201cTayhana has been slaying in the Mexico scene. This performance felt like a great moment for me to celebrate being a South American woman. I\u2019m so proud.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kian\u00ed tells me that this collaboration with Tayhana won\u2019t end when the festival is over. In fact the two are working together to release an album, with KDV Performance Group and Hamill Industries heading the visuals based off CORTEX for Tayhana\u2019s sounds. This will mark the continuation of CORTEX, which is set to go on its own tour in 2025. With this, I see the excitement ripple through her face.<\/p>\n

To end the conversation, I ask Kian\u00ed what dance means to her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDance is my way of understanding how to better live in the world. It\u2019s an instrument of understanding. I feel very lucky to have dancers that I can share that with too. It\u2019s funny, I\u2019ve been working my whole life in this space, but it feels like everything is starting right now.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CORTEX is a special commission for kdv.performance.group<\/a> by S\u00f3nar<\/a>\u00a0and CTM<\/a><\/p>\n

Director, Choreographer: Kian\u00ed del Valle<\/a>
\nVisual Artists: Hamill Industries<\/a>
\nOriginal Sound Score: Tayhana<\/a>
\nCreative Producer, Concept Dramaturge: Elizabeth Hinojos<\/a>
\nAssistant Choreographer, Creation Process Dramaturge: Rub\u00e9n Nsue<\/a>
\nProject Manager, Producer: Masha Mitroshina<\/a>
\nCostume Stylist: @lennibubi<\/a>
\nLighting Designer: Catalina Joy<\/a>
\nDancers & Co-Creators: Alvin Collantes<\/a>, Amanda Donato<\/a>, Nana<\/a>, Kian\u00ed del Valle<\/a>
\nProduction Assistant: Irene Fern\u00e1ndez Arcas<\/a>
\nKDV Intern Support: Bence Ungv\u00e1ri<\/a>
\nCostume Styling Assistant: Bob Schroeder<\/a>
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