Women Cinemakers meets
Anna Estellés Lives and works in Spain (Valencia) and Indonesia (Yogyakarta)
Trips take you to unknown landscapes in which geography evokes other images. Aesthetics can be between the beautiful and the deformed and sometimes you do not know if there is the limit, there is or isn´t?
An interview by Francis L. Quettier and Dora S. Tennant womencinemaker@berlin.com
Hello Anna and welcome to WomenCinemakers: we would like to introduce you to our readers with a couple of questions about your background. You have a solid formal training and you studied Physical Theater in London, Dance Theater in Barcelona, later Dance Therapy and other performing art trainings: how did this experience inform your artistic evolution? Hello WomenCinemakers, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to participate in your magazine and your interest in my work. I consider myself a researcher in the art of movement, both in the creative and the health fields. Everything that is a body in movement interests me, which brings me, at a creative level, to experiment with different formats that appear in my life and through them explore
ways to show and express through body and movement from different prisms. In the field of health, I am interested in how to help people to self-regulate and heal themselves through body and movement, having a body awareness and developing creativity. And at a social level, working with repressed groups, using both approaches. It´s very useful and interesting, together they have a synergic effect. Could you tell us what are your most important influences and how did they affect your art practice? My influences have been very diverse, I began my training in Performing Arts with Physical Theater in London. A great influence was Pina Bausch. She was a very disruptive artist in her way of working as a choreographer, she worked from the emotion and then the movement appeared and its staging. It was so poetic and so risky. She broke the world of contemporary dance and came closer to the world of theater. Butoh dance fascinates me a lot. Étienne