Lourdes Durán Guinaldo

Spanish dancer and performer (Salamanca, 1960) related to Espacio P (1981-1997), visual credits related to [a2232817] releases. Lourdes Durán also was member of Corps group (Madrid, 1980-1984) and URA/UNZ collective (Madrid, 1983-1985). ------------- - She was trained as a gymnast as part of the Women’s Gymnastics Team in Salamanca from 1972 to 1979. - She re­ceived classes in expressive movement from Martha Schinca as of 1979 and joined Schinca group in 1980, where she met Pedro Garhel. - She started as a member of the Corps group, a group that experimented with body and performance art with an approach similar to that of Fluxus, as of 1981 with the performance "Suite en blanco" and an intervention in the stage play "El gran teatro del mundo" directed by Santiago Paredes. - At Espacio P she began working with Paloma Unzeta to form their own group URA/UNZ (19831985). The importance of improvisation and audience participation made many of their works much like happenings. Closely tied to alternative art spaces in Madrid in the early1980s, like Espacio P first, and later on Poisson Soluble (1984-1985), they had both played a significant part of Corps group, the group project headed by Pedro Garhel from 1980 to 1984. Noteworthy among their first actions as Corps were Suite en blanco (1980), at the Luis Adelantado gallery, and the XPXRXTX–Opereta musical performance at sala Rock-Ola (1982). Their debut at Espacio P was the performance piece Cassette Compact/Compact Cassette (1983). Currently, she works with choreography, dance and video.