The places, territories and geographies that saw us growing up are part of us. We carry places in our bodies. For Amanda Piña, a Mexican-Chilean artist living and working in Vienna Austria, a mountain in the central Andes of Chile, today being destroyed by a transnational mining company, becomes a place to share pain, express anger and imagine a more sustainable future. Danzas Climáticas is inspired by the work of Mexican anthropologist Alessandro Questa on the traditional dances of the Masewal people that embody the mountains. The performance explores the agency of our bodies and of art, in times of environmental exploitation and climate anxiety, Danzas Climáticas is an invitation to descend into the depths of the mountain, a visionary effort to rediscover ancestral ways of relating to the world.
On stage, students from the Summer Lab organised by Lost Movement and ArteMente, who participated in the training led by Amanda Piña.
[...] it is an essay on the possibility of thinking about the world by abandoning the idea of progress and on the contribution of dance as a social movement to achieve this goal.
