ADMISSION & CAMPUS ACCESS: 
Admission is free. Reservations are required. Campus access is limited to registered guests and USC students, staff, and faculty with current USC ID.

RSVP beginning Monday, March 3, at 10 a.m. 

DESCRIPTION: 
In advance of “A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward,” a dance performance-lecture with Daniel Méndez Piña, Aimar Pérez Galí will lead a workshop on contact improvisation. The Spanish scholar and dancer will connect this form of dancing, in which movement is improvised based on physical contact between two or more bodies, with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on Spanish and Latin American dance. 

Aimar Pérez Galí develops his artistic practice in the dance and performing arts field as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, pedagogue, and writer, always departing from the body as a reference place, understanding dance as a tool for critical transformation. The Spanish scholar and artist studied modern dance at the Amsterdam High School of the Arts and earned a master’s degree in museology and critical studies in the Independent Studies Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). He has been the co-founder and artistic director of Espacio Práctico since 2010; since 2014, he has taught in the Choreography Department at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa of the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona; and since 2017, he has co-coordinated the reading group ¡Encarna! at MACBA. His work unfolds between research on dance, pedagogy, history, and the development of new methodologies and performance practice. Some of his most important recent performance works are èpica, The Touching Community, and Sweating the Discourse: An Embodied Critique. 

Related event: 

“A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward” 
A Dance Performance-Lecture by Aimar Pérez Galí and Daniel Méndez Piña 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. 
Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall, USC Brain and Creativity Institute 
For more info, click HERE. 

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Jennifer Miller (Visual Studies Research Institute) and Julian Gutierrez Albilla (Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature). Co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles.

Photo: Florian Wagner