Saturday, 02.08.2025

Juan Pablo Cámara 

A kind of instinctual grace

A practical how-to guide

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Duration: approx. 60 minutes

No registration required

A kind of instinctual grace

In these cyborgian times, when we often feel more attuned to machines than to animals, this guide invites a playful reconnection with our animality. By embracing our instinctual selves, we open up space to fantasise and experiment with alternative forms of sociality, hacking social awkwardness and alienation through a more visceral, embodied mode of being-together. This is a parasitic manoeuvre: slipping into the cracks of the host culture, unsettling its protocols through instinct, play, and presence. Here, animality becomes a tactic, a way of short-circuiting neurosis by remembering how to move, how to feel, how to relate without explanation.

About the artist

Juan Pablo Cámara is an Argentinean-born, Berlin-based choreographer and performer who graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Drawing from his country’s psychoanalytical traditions, he explores the boundaries between the personal, fictional, and cultural, harvesting vulnerabilities within formalities, using artificiality and hyper-theatricality as tools for world-making and identity construction. His recent works, La cosa piel and Main, Main, who’s there?, were co-produced by Sophiensaele in Berlin. He has performed across Europe, North and South America, and collaborated with artists like Adam Linder, Michele Rizzo, and Jefta van Dinther.