Four Remarks on the History of Dance
In 2015, Yusimi Moya Rodriguez participated as a dancer in the new performance “Four Remarks on the History of Dance” by nada productions under the artistic direction of Amana Piña and Daniel Zimmermann. Premiere was at the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival. The dancers were Jana Jevtovic, Alexandra Mabes, Amanda Piña, Yusimi Moya Rodriguez and various guest dancers. To read all details about the production please visit the website of nada productions here.
The performance “Four remarks on the history of dance” is the first Volume of a series entitled “Endangered Human Movements”, focusing on human movement practices, which have been cultivated for centuries all over the world. The first Volume of this long-term research by Amanda Piña deals with dances that were not conceived to create a spectacle for a select audience, but were practiced in commonality, articulating reciprocal relations with the environment, other life forms, and the unknown.
The “Four remarks on the history of dance” are meant to be artistic and discursive contributions for the expansion of a narrative that has been historically ethnocentric. The performance presents a plurality of dance forms from all five continents, – dedicated to the harvest, the soil, the rain, the fire or the wind – and brings them on stage as ready-mades, exploring the political and environmental potential of movement, in times of advancing privatization and depletion of natural resources. (Text quoted from nada productions.)
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