“
"I am often plagued by the disturbing question of how it was possible,
in this Colombia that is bleeding and
wavers on the brink of the abyss, that an artist like Álvaro Restrepo, son of our time and of our agonizing circumstance, has managed to create with such certainty
and serenity a work of such quality
and rigor, without ever falling into the anecdotal nor in a sterile preciousness, both temptations common to so many of our artists blindly entrusted to the easy proposals of a talent that renounces reflection and discipline
from the beginning".
Alvaro Mutis
Álvaro Restrepo: Vision and revelation
El Espectador 1992
"I feel blessed personally to have experienced such an inspirational day yesterday. Seeing you and hearing you speak about what you have created was fantastic. I am in admiration for what you have done. The entire day was unique... impassioned. What a joy!.. It will create a memory to last forever. Your dancers dance with such energy and passion. Fantastic!"
Jennifer Muller
choreographer
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... Why call a dance school college of the body? Because it evokes a greater dimension for an institution whose purpose is to treat the body with dignity in a country that does it with violence…, Restrepo said… ”
Anna Kisselgoff
Latin America brought talent and pain to France
New York Times
“Álvaro, your work is a confirmation of what Watermill stands for and what I believe in. Thank you for being a part of Watermill and doing what no one else is doing. I am proud to know you.”
Robert Wilson
Watermill Center
“Powerful and disturbing, this work
( Quartet for the End of the Body )
It is not only a remarkable achievement
– it is also a remarkable work. Created -
like the music of Messiaen ( Quartet for the End of Time ) -, in extreme circumstances, it shows that there should not necessarily be concessions between social values and the artistic ones; in other words, between doing good and do it right."
Sanjoy Roy
Marrying Artistic and Social Agendas Through Dance in Colombia
“Leonard is very pleased and touched, he says the work is excellent, he rarely gives such praise. We are ready
to support your work.”
Robert Kory
Manager Leonard Cohen
Flowers for Kazuo Ohno (and Leonard Cohen)
“I found the entire evening totally original....no one on the New York dance scene uses this kind of imagery...and
so integrated with the range
of movement the dancers executed with such commitment. This may sound like shorthand...but to me, the evening offered a form of Magic Realism.”
Anna Kisselg off
Dance Critic
New York Times
Álvaro Restrepo - Publications in
Academic Theses
The Role of Artistic Education in the Reinvention of Identity
The Colombian Case: El Colegio del Cuerpo -The School of the Body -
2010
Marcelo Rueda, BA, MFA
Le Collège du Corps
2011
Angela Losada
When the Body is Oppressed, or MA Project,
Dancing a New Collective Story
(Participatory Research on Communication for Social Change)
2011
Carolina Novella
Discipline & Happiness
2012
Gabriella Windsor
Art in the Construction of a New Political Theology for
Peace, A theological reading of the El Colegio del Cuerpo de Cartagena
2021
Nilson Jair Castro Laverde SJ
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