Holland Festival: STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures

Afro-diasporic dances are a means of resistance against the museumization of these dance traditions. While these dances are often categorized as 'folkloric', 'ethnic', 'animist' or 'tribal', Ana Pi wants to use this workshop to see how you can re-appropriate them.

Holland Festival: STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures

Location

Frascati

Nes 63

1012 KD Amsterdam

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What is your natural movement?

Based on the performance The Divine Cypher, the participants search together for movements and knowledge that are already stored in the body from different dance histories and artistic forms. What does movement mean to you when you move in a collective, without the straitjacket of rehearsed dance steps? What is your natural movement?

Ana Pi: 'With the STEADY BODY lab; peripheral dances, sacred gestures, we investigate what these radical movements have in common: future orientation, groove, tension, recoding and image journeys. We share knowledge and experience from different traditions and artistic forms. Every journey is an opportunity to dive into histories, important figures, aesthetics, intersections between poetics and politics of invisibility. Our bodies can change contemporary worldviews and find a beautiful new way to move in the world.”

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