To Bloom () Florecimiento, 2024

Vera Asunción, Olivia Busquets Moreu, Bianca Neyre Caroppo, Joséphine Chaix Szczurek, Linde Engelen, Lluna Galarza, Daniel Garcia, Joanne Jacob, Silas Martens, Dominika Novak, Emily Jane Steele

Choreographer Amanda Piña creates an intriguing choreography based on the movements of ancient animal species that live under water, such as sponges, cnidaria, molluscs and echinoderms. This connects Piña with the historical and modern-day movements of ocean streams and migration. By gathering these micro and macro movements, the ocean appears as a meeting point for transit and decline, but equally as a lively vital kingdom that supports life on earth.

The choreography is developed by Piña together with the Bachelor dance students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. During an intensive process, she immerses them in her dance language and knowledge. Piña sees her work as an expression of Afro-diasporic knowledge that is not only rooted in Abya Yala, but also across the borders to be embraced by people of different ethnic backgrounds in areas such as Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Brazil.

The biodiversity, and above all the fear of losing it, form a common link throughout Piña’s work. With her contemporary rituals, she aims to lift for a moment the ideological borders between modern and traditional, between human, animal and plant, between nature and culture. With To Bloom () Florecimiento, she invites you as the spectator to get back in touch with nature.

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