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The third edition of the series The Chairs of T\u00e0pies <\/em>comes to a close with the proposal of Roc\u00edo Molina, Cracks and Fissures of a Body in Clay<\/em>. The work is a performative lecture presenting a living reflection on the flamenco body as a terrain of knowledge and transmission.<\/p>\n Through words and action, the artist shares the gestures that are ever-present in her practice, exploring how thought is embodied in movement and corporeal experience gives rise to knowledge.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough my flamenco feints and intentions, I will drag you inwards through an existing crack in this body of clay, body of accumulation and recipient of memory, thus falling into senselessness in that very place where we cannot find our footing, infinitely distanced from the body, in a place without time.<\/p>\n For there is no place.<\/p>\n There is no body.<\/p>\n Only the true sense of the body will give way to existence.<\/p>\n As M\u00f3nica Valenciano would say: \u2018When non-time touches the body, something will have been danced.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roc\u00edo Molina<\/strong> is an iconoclastic choreographer and dancer who has forged a language of her own, grounded in the reinvented tradition of flamenco, respecting its essences and embracing the avant-garde. Radically free, in her pieces she unites technical virtuosity, contemporary investigation and conceptual risk. Unafraid to weave alliances with other disciplines and artists, her choreographies are unique stage events that draw from cultural ideas and forms running from cinema to literature, while likewise including philosophy and painting.<\/p>\n Her artistic endeavour has been recognised with important awards, including the 2022 Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the prestigious Silver Lion for Dance at the Venice Biennale, as well as the Positano dance award, the Spanish National Dance Prize in 2010, the UK National Dance Award in 2016 and 2019 and four Max Awards. She has also received the 2023 Tal\u00eda Award for best performer for Vuelta a Uno<\/em>, as well as Tal\u00eda Awards for best choreography, show and performance in 2026 for Calentamiento<\/em>, and the 2026 Andalusia Culture Award in the category of flamenco.<\/p>\n Molina is one of Spain\u2019s most internationally celebrated artists, and her works have been seen in the world\u2019s most prestigious venues, including Lond0n\u2019s Barbican Centre, New York City Center, the Avignon Festival, Esplanade in Singapore, Festival Tanz Im August in Berlin, Seoul\u2019s SPAF Festival, the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, the National Theatre of Taiwan, Dansens Hus in Oslo and Stockholm, Chaillot Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National in Paris and Tokyo\u2019s Bunkamura. She was associate artist at Chaillot Th\u00e9\u00e2tre national de la danse (Paris), and is currently associate artist at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de N\u00eemes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n