Juan Marcelo Rossi
attended the professional dance training in danscentrumjette during 2019-2020 in Brussels. He graduated with a Bachelor of Performing Arts, focusing on Circus Arts from the National University of San Martin (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2017. Juan has also obtained a diploma corresponding to the title of Interpreter in Performing Arts at UNSAM, and he was awarded a scholarship to be part of the Motion Arts Experimentation Group (GEAM) at the National University of Art (UNA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his independent career, he participated as an interpreter in festivals and artistic events around the world. In his professional career -as an artist- he keeps researching his individual style while mixing acrobatics and dance.
Currently, Juan Marcelo is working in a new dúo of acrobatics and dance, which mix different worlds hand in hand. This new creation talks about tolerance and the mixing of diverse cultures. Additionally, with the artist collective Les Sudakas, he is participating in 2 new creations, while he is also in a project called InTouch. InTouch is about la danse contact - exploring the need to be in contact with others.
Juan Marcelo’s solo performance, ALguIEN, is a piece of contemporary dance and physical theater which questions the heterocentric parameters in which we are immersed. Politics and art are mixed. Body in action is exposed to be examined by the eyes of others. Someone is hidden. The mass in which it is enveloped and contained is subordinated by the culture and social regimes. Layers that begin to crumble, fall off, fall off... Someone opens the shell, comes out of their shell. Fighting genres and labels seek the need to apply alien fantasy (superior beings created without distinction of gender/ race / sex / social class) to all human beings.
Les Sudakas
Juan is part of Les Sudakas.
Les Sudakas is an independent artist collective that was born at the end of 2019 in the city of Brussels, Belgium and whose members come from South America and Spain.
The reason which brought these artists together was, on the one hand, the need to generate a meeting space from which to accompany each other through the struggle of living in a foreign country, with languages, traditions and lifestyles different from their own.
The artists who comprise part of this group come from different artistic backgrounds such as dance, circus, theatre, and visual arts.
Initially, the word Sudakas came to be used pejoratively against the people who come from Latino America - people with differences, minorities. The collective uses this word to appropriate their culture and transform that signification.