Cecilia Bengolea

Cecilia Bengolea

dancer and choreographer, Paris

interview and portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — How does the street influence your work as a choreographer and dancer? Is there something about being born and raised in Buenos Aires?
CECILIA BENGOLEA — In Buenos Aires as a child I was dreaming about the streets, as I was in tennis and polo clubs until I was a teenager. When I encountered the street in the ’90s, it was the punk times, post military government in Argentina. Quite repressive still. This situation made me eager to create utopic, freeing dances to forget the structures I was raised in. The streets seemed to me a place of infinite possibility, quite related to LSD, rock, and punk.

OLIVIER ZAHM — How do you create the costumes for your choreography — spontaneously?
CECILIA BENGOLEA — Um, no. It really prevents me…