This project started just as a dance performance and through research and class work has developed into a more complete performance including a piano minuet, cajon, and a poem. We are also exploring the idea of including objects of constrain like bloody ballet shoes, a corset, and a chain.
Project Description: A Choreography about a traditional ballet dancer that gets possessed by an African spirit and by this experience reconnects with her ancestor and frees herself from all constraints that placed an impediment on her dancing like she truly feels like it.
Potential context: The dancer is an Afrodiasporean woman that through her dance aims to fight european cultural hegemony. The timing of the piece could have been from a dancer 50 years ago (or in present days), while its relevancy make it possible to take place today. As an Afrodiasporean woman at the beginning of the piece she embodies the oppression of patriarchy and catholicism.
Research that supports your project proposal: We have done research on Victoria Santa Cruz as a dancer, a feminist, and an activist. Also through Diana’s traditional training and Afro Latin dance training we have found a series of oppositional views of the women’s body that we will bring forth within the choreography and the story.
Project goals: to visualize the conflicts of society in relationship to their bodies. And to develop more horizontal alternatives to develop democratic dance and body aesthetics.
Relationship between the two countries: this project touches a very important common subject in Peruvian, Cuban, and U.S. societies, which is the body of the Afrodiaporean women.
Project Description: A Choreography about a traditional ballet dancer that gets possessed by an African spirit and by this experience reconnects with her ancestor and frees herself from all constraints that placed an impediment on her dancing like she truly feels like it.
Potential context: The dancer is an Afrodiasporean woman that through her dance aims to fight european cultural hegemony. The timing of the piece could have been from a dancer 50 years ago (or in present days), while its relevancy make it possible to take place today. As an Afrodiasporean woman at the beginning of the piece she embodies the oppression of patriarchy and catholicism.
Research that supports your project proposal: We have done research on Victoria Santa Cruz as a dancer, a feminist, and an activist. Also through Diana’s traditional training and Afro Latin dance training we have found a series of oppositional views of the women’s body that we will bring forth within the choreography and the story.
Project goals: to visualize the conflicts of society in relationship to their bodies. And to develop more horizontal alternatives to develop democratic dance and body aesthetics.
Relationship between the two countries: this project touches a very important common subject in Peruvian, Cuban, and U.S. societies, which is the body of the Afrodiaporean women.
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