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Holland Festival: STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures

Ana Pi
Thu 20 Jun ’24 19:00
A dance workshop based on dance traditions from the Afro-diaspora.
Thu 20 Jun ’24
19:00
  • Thu 20 Jun ’24
    19:00
    Frascati
    Frascati 2
    Past event

Afro-diasporische dansen zijn een middel van verzet tegen de musealisering van deze danstradities. Waar deze dansen vaak gecategoriseerd worden als 'folkloristisch', 'etnisch', 'animistisch' of 'tribaal', wil Ana Pi met deze workshop kijken hoe je ze weer kunt toe-eigenen.

Based on the piece The Divine Cypher, participants will jointly explore movements and knowledge from various different dance histories and artistic forms that are already stored in the body. What does movement mean to you when you move in a collective, without the rigidity of pre-rehearsed dance routines? What is your natural movement?

Ana Pi: ‘With the lab STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures, we explore what these radical movements have in common: a focus on the future, groove, excitement, recoding and visual travel. We will share knowledge and experience from different traditions and artistic forms, each journey an opportunity to delve into histories, significant figures, aesthetics, intersections between poetics and politics of invisibility. With our bodies, we can change current-day worldviews and find a beautiful new way of moving in the world.’

  • Duration: 180 min.
  • Language: English
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About the maker

Ana Pi (Brazil/France, 1986) is a choreographer and visual artist, researcher in urban dance, contemporary dancer and teacher. Her work is connected with travel and revolves around notions of transit, displacement, belonging, overlapping, memory, colour and everyday gestures. In 2020, she created the structure NA MATA LAB.

NoirBLUE—les déplacements d’une danse (2018 – 27 min) was her first documentary, and VÓS (2011 – 5 min 30 sec) was her first video essay. In her pieces O BΔNQUETE, COROA, NoirBLUE, DRW2 and Le Tour du Monde des Danses Urbaines en 10 villes, she interweaves choreography, speech and installation. She has given dance workshops under the name CORPO FIRME; danças periféricas, gestos sagrados since 2010.

The Divine Cypher is a project which she created in Haiti and for which she received an arts fellowship in Latin America from the MoMA (New York) and Cisneros Institute. She is also an associated choreographer with the Dancing Museums project in France, and an associated artist with the Latitudes Contemporaines production office.

She is developing the choreographic exhibition WOMEN PART 3 in collaboration with Ghyslaine Gau and Annabel Guérédrat, and the installation Rádio Concha with philosopher Maria Fernanda Novo. Lastly, for RACE, her latest essay combining dance and image, she is working with @FavelinhaDance and Chassol.

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