Dance & Resistance

In 2016, Yusimi Moya Rodriguez participated as a dancer in the new performance “Dance & Resistance” by nada productions under the artistic direction of Amana Piña in collaboration with Daniel Zimmermann. Premiere was at deSingel, Antwerpen, Belgium and Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria. To read all details about the dance piece please visit the website of nada productions and click here.

The performance series “Endangered Human Movements” deals with dances and cultural practices that are in danger of disappearing or already extinct. These dances were practiced in commonality articulating reciprocal relationships between humans, with animals and plants, the weather and the environment. The second Volume of this series called “Dance & Resistance” focuses on dances that were considered “ritual” by the anthropologists of the last century. The dances re-embodied in the performance were banned, persecuted or even distorted beyond recognition in order to accommodate and serve the goals and purposes of colonization and Christianization. The piece explores the potential resistance of the body in the current context of neoliberal market economy and the increased privatization and depletion of natural resources. (Text quoted from the nada productions website.)

“I think the dances can be regarded as part of a human reservoir of movement and relation beyond spoken or written language.” (Amanda Piña)

Stage photos © nada productions