Lake Studios Berlin

Bodies as Ancestral Waters/Particles entangled with a More-than-Human Web
(Dieses Event wird auf Englisch stattfinden)

3-hour embodied workshop by Angélica Roa / LaMultiverse

By Donation: Pay what you can (suggested 15€)
*All proceeds go to the NGO Cumbres Blancas Colombia (@cumbresblancascolombia), supporting rural indigenous communities in ecosystem restoration.

For questions and to sign up, please email Angélica:

What if the body does not end at the skin?

What if, instead of understanding ourselves as autonomous individuals moving through an external environment, we approached the body as a confluence—a temporary meeting place of waters, minerals, microorganisms, ancestors, memories, forces and relations?

Confluence is a three-hour embodied laboratory exploring the body as a site of ecological, ancestral and material entanglement. Continuing the research of On How to Be Nature and To Critter, the workshop moves away from the dominant capitalist narrative of the human as an individual entity separated from “Nature” and toward other possibilities for understanding and belonging to the living entangled world.

Through movement, somatic attention, imagination, collective reflection and encounters with material elements, we will bring different bodies of knowledge into conversation: Andean Indigenous worldviews and their understandings of the body as territory, in reciprocity and relational existence; Indian philosophical approaches to embodiment, matter and consciousness; and perspectives from particle physics that destabilize the image of matter as solid, isolated and self-contained.

These perspectives are not presented as equivalent systems or collapsed into a single universal truth. Instead, they become different waters entering the same confluence, distinct ways of troubling the idea of the bounded, autonomous human.

The workshop proposes embodiment as a practice for remembering this entanglement through the sensing, moving, porous body. Bodies made through relations, inheritances and exchanges; bodies continuously passing into soil, air, water, plants, microorganisms and other beings.

We will move between sensing and thinking, individual exploration and collective composition.

No previous dance or movement experience is required.

Angélica Roa ist eine in Berlin lebende interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Tänzerin, Choreografin, ausgebildete Physikerin und Absolventin des MA SODA am HZT Berlin/UdK Berlin. Ihre Arbeit bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle von Performance, ökologischer Forschung und verkörperter Wissensproduktion. Als Leiterin von LaMultiverse hat sie interdisziplinäre Arbeiten choreografiert und inszeniert, die die Verkörperung von Naturkräften (Kosmocorporea) sowie hybride Beziehungen zwischen Pflanzen und Menschen (Bryophyllum) erforschen. Derzeit beschäftigt sie sich mit biologischen Wechselbeziehungen und Verflechtung (To Critter) und entwickelt ökosomatische Methoden, die vom traditionellen ökologischen Wissen (TEK) Kolumbiens geprägt sind. Mit über zwanzig Jahren Erfahrung als Performerin und Vermittlerin – an institutionellen Theatern ebenso wie in Community-Kontexten – verbindet sie künstlerische Praxis, wissenschaftliches Denken und situierte Forschung. In ihrer aktuellen Arbeit untersucht sie die Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur in urbanen und natürlichen Landschaften mit ortsbezogenen, verkörperten Methoden.

WEB: lamultiverse.com IG: @angelicaroa_lamultiverse

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