some work of art seems to be important. trying to produce something important can be paralyzing. and still, i want to produce important works of art: social, communicative, triggering and challenging.

i am interested in developing my sense of ethics through the practice of my work, always in relation and dialogue with other people. i want my work to have a political significance, i want to be an actor in changing the world, be it discussing the news, macro-politics, mechanisms of perception or how our bodies interact with the world. i look at the ethics behind every encounter between people.

my work focuses on the creative process. for each project i explore new choreographic methodologies without constraining myself to previous "findings" or solutions. i investigate the possibilities of sharing my ideas without blocking the space for exchange. i want us to be able to dialogue.

i want to be able not to take art too seriously. i try to laugh at myself, as much as possible. i try to work with no inhibitions or fears, but still making decisions and taking responsibility for my work.

some time ago i started trying to live with a greater degree of uncertainty, accepting the complexity and sophistication of communication and perception processes. i don't try to abstract ideas from their environments and i try to think that they move beyond the rational.

some time ago i took the name of Sturgeon's novel for my dance and theatre projects. an ongoing identity on top of the different projects i choreograph and direct. though the way i see my work in 2010 is different from what it was 5 years ago, this identity is still marked by the same ideas: transformation, non-conformism, curiosity, self-challenge, ambition, desire… these lively forces, this sense of ethics, that keeps me producing art.

i often think with affection about the novel's Fabulous Idiot. i would like to see myself like that, a character trying to understand himself in a search that goes beyond himself, in love with the ideas of interdependence and communion, being incomplete without others.

being a creature that is conformed by several human beings.being a creature that is conformed by several human beings.

just like a theatre performance.

sometime from now, when i become something else, i would like to become "a laughing thing with a human heart and a reverence for its human origins, smelling of sweat and new-turned earth rather than suffused with other pale odours..."

pablo fontdevila / bio

Tucuman, Argentina, 1982

Choreographer, dancer and lighting designer. Currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Has presented his own dance productions "la vejez de las paredes una negra sonrisa de alegria un rincon apacible un modo diferente de conspirar de ver la vida un poco envenenada", "half of the piece about disappearing", "smaller, slower, unproductive and resentful", "Japon", "The Factbook", "White is the colour of death" and others in diferent venues in Amsterdam (NL), Berlin (DE), Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero (AR), Tokyo (JP) and Mexico City (MX). He participated also as a dancer and performer in projects by Diego Gil and Igor Dobricic, Steve Paxton, David Weber-Krebs and Alexander Schellow, Nora Heilmann, Katerina Bakatsaki, Diana Theocharidis, and others.

He worked in collaborative choreographic processes with diverse artists ("Hotaru", "Didimas", "Kavafis, the three circles of exile"). He worked as assistant to choreographers and opera directors such as Diana Theocharidis, Jerome Savary and Alfredo Arias.

Has designed lighting for concert, dance, opera and theater performances in multiple cities in Argentina, Mexico, The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. He lectured on "Communication in lighting and dance" and taught as assistant to teacher Arq. Eli Sirlin at IUNA's Bachelor in Lighting Design (Buenos Aires). He authored the project for exterior decorative lighting to two national monuments and two City Government offices in the City of Pigue, Argentina.

In 2009 he graduated from the reknowned School for New Dance Development (SNDO; bachelor degree) of the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK). He received the prestigious Huygens Scholarship granted by the Dutch Ministry of Eduaction, Culture and Science, and has received grants to support his work from Fabrik Potsdam (DE), AHK Fonds Practicum Generale (NL) and Instituto ProDanza (AR).