Leyson Ponce

Leyson  Ponce born in Caracas, Venezuela  and resident in Madrid,  Spai. He has formed in contemporary  dance beside important training  centers and groups such as Abelardo Gameche  Dance Theater and Acción Colectiva directed by Julie Barnsley in Venezuela. In Germany he has trained and formed in Aufbaustudium Program at Folkwang University of Arts in Essen under the sign of expressionist dance with teachers ofrom the  Tanztheater Wuppertal as were Lütz Förster, Malou Airaudo and Domenique Merci among others.

He is a  Ph.D  of Philosophy of Art  with the Mention Summa Cum Laude  at the University of  Salamanca (September 2013 to September 2018) with  its theoretical and practical research on what’s called The Poetics of Ajar body,   a methodology of performative research movement with emphasis on the   boundaries of theatrical expression as multisensory territory and   knowledge. In  this perspective, the body in a complex  relationship between reality and  fiction  turns and creates the  necesity to transcend the passive  contemplation of the viewer, making  the experience one stage an event revealed in the mystery  beyond as new sensibility.

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