PLATAFORMA EXPANDIDA
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PLATAFORMA EXPANDIDA presents proposals by artists from AbyaYala (the so called Americas), outside the official festival calendar, in in-situ contexts, in which the body-territory is the core of the process and the work itself.
PLATAFORMA EXPANDIDA addresses the issue of territory from an abyaYala perspective. With a decolonial approach, the program focuses on the relationship between the body and the territory, both in the sense of the body as territory and the territory/land as body; emphasising the perspective of Indigenous peoples and ecofeminist visions.
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​​​​​​En la guarida de un cuerpo que recuerda / LA SERPIENTE
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©WENDY RUFINOEN
LA GUARIDA DE UN CUERPO QUE RECUERDA is a dance solo with an autobiographical approach that honors memory and resignifies spaces. In the performance the body is a landscape that invites contemplation and remembrance, it is territory and constellation, a meeting place that provokes dance.The performance takes place in a house in the town of Acuitzio in the province of Mexico, a house with earthen walls and mud roofs, nearly one hundred years old. It is the house where the father of the dancer of the performance was born, a physical space that protects the personal history, a condition that gives a deep meaning to the ritual dance that takes place in situ.Laura Martínez Ayala’s choreographic creation is a validation of dance as a space for the configuration of the human and Abdiel Villaseñor Talavera’s scenic creation is the materialization of common imaginaries, the mirror of possible reflections with the spectators.
COMPANY: La Serpiente
DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Laura Martínez Ayala
PERFORMER: Abdiel Villaseñor Talavera
LIGHTING: Laura Martínez Ayala
ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN: Pedro Antonio Vargas Madrigal
STAGE MANAGER: Liliana Rosales Merlos
COMMUNICATION: Oscar Mosqueda
DESIGN: Gethsemaní Alcántar
PRODUCTION: Proyecto Serpiente A.C.
LAURA MARTÍNEZ AYALA
Mexican. Contemporary dance creator and co-director of La Serpiente Company and RED SERPIENTE International Dance Festival. She has created more than fifty dance works in different formats and her work has been presented in Europe, Asia and America. She is a professor at the Theater Academy of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Michoacan University and has taught choreographic composition workshops in Colombia, Chile and South Korea. She has a Master’s Degree in Arts Didactics and a PhD in Education.
ABDIEL VILLASEÑOR TALAVERA
He is an artistic director and scenic creator of contemporary dance, originally from Morelia, Mexico. He has a degree in Communication, a Master in Philosophy of Culture and a PhD in Critical Theory. He is co-director of the contemporary dance company La Serpiente, with which he has toured Europe, Asia and America. He has been invited as International Jury of Choreographic contests and he has been curator and jury of selection of Programs for the artistic development in Mexico. He was recently recognized as a Scenic Creator with trajectory in dance by the SACPC in his country.