Camil Navarro is an interdisciplinary Chilean artist whose practice stems from theater, dance, music, and performance.
Their work investigates the notion of the critical body, situating the physicality of the performer as a pivotal axis of exploration of identity spaces in a continuous change of figure and fundamentals. Based on somatic strategies, choreographic operations, experimental vocalizations, and writing procedures, their performances deal with themes and contexts related to resistance movements and civil disobedience in Chile and Latin America; water and environmental crisis due to anthropogenic causes; and discussions around the Western and cisgender cultural matrix through an ethical and methodological position from transgender perspectives.
In 2022, Camil was a recipient of the French Institute of Chile and Cité Internationale des Arts international program. During his second residency within the framework of the Cité internationale des arts 2-12 Program, he will develop a choreographic research process at La Fabrique Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, in collaboration with drag artists -both Drag Queens and Kings- from the Centre LGBTQI+ Paris-îDF, for the creation of a Trans-gestural Laboratory: A protected space that allows us to make visible our invisible gestural memories and the deliberate manifestation of our politics of difference.