CREATIVE CLINIC

The Creative Clinic is a four-stage working strategy for accompanying creative processes. Developed from 2017 onwards, it has continued to evolve through the experiences it encounters and the different contexts in which it is implemented. More than one hundred people have experienced this approach in contexts of creation, research, and knowledge transmission.
The Creative Clinic has been developed in different institutional and university contexts, giving rise to specific formats and working modalities. It is not a fixed protocol, but rather a methodology that is shaped according to each context, the needs of the participants, the working conditions, and the ecosystem in which the creative process takes place. The process is therefore constructed with the context rather than simply applied to it.
This approach was further developed through my doctoral research, Dramaturgia enraizada. La función dramatúrgica en el marco de las Clínicas de creación en danza desde una perspectiva ecosófica, devoted to dramaturgical function in dance creation clinics from an ecosophical perspective. The doctoral research brought the practical experience of the Creative Clinic into dialogue with a reflection on creative processes, forms of accompaniment, and the relationships between body, thought, environment, and context.
The Creative Clinic begins with the idea of the essay as a personal approach to a theme, a question, or an area of research, but also as a search for a singular mode of expression. Its starting point is fundamentally practical: putting things to the test, experimenting, observing, shifting, and revisiting ideas through the body and through practice. It is through this experience that embodied thought unfolds.
The work is organized into four stages and aims to accompany the performer-essayist in developing their own solo or creative process. The aim is to progressively move towards becoming the author of one’s own research, developing one’s own “essay”: a singular form that brings together practice, thought, body, and dramaturgy.
Particular attention is given to the subjective dimension of practices. Subjectivity is not understood as the opposite of rigor, but as a personal elaboration grounded in principles, choices, and experiences that can be articulated, tested, and developed. The aim is therefore to build a practice that is both singular and situated.
The Creative Clinic also considers the relationships between each process and the context of contemporary art and, more particularly, the performing arts. A creative work never develops in isolation: it takes place within specific conditions of production, transmission, presentation, and encounter with audiences. The work therefore also involves seeking the forms through which each project can find its own way of existing and circulating.
In this sense, the Creative Clinic accompanies the “life strategies” of projects: How can a research process become visible? How can it be shared? In what space, with which bodies, which audiences, and which modes of presence? What kind of working process, stage, or encounter does it require? And how can we put into words what is being explored, in order to better understand the contexts in which a creative work can take place?
Each participant is invited to follow their own direction, starting from what attracts them, questions them, or resists them. The work is less about applying a method than about building the conditions that allow a singular research process to develop, in dialogue with the body, practice, others, and the ecosystem in which it takes place.

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