cuerpalatina - Impropias Collective
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Concept and direction: Mercedes Balarezo
Performers and creators: Yes Escobar, Paola Nieto and Daniela Pascual
Costume design: Yes Escobar
Music in the video: Villa Donde - King Coya
cuerpalatina* is the first work of Impropias Collective. It premiered at Finland Through Other Eyes Festival (FOE Fest), Maunula, on July 31st 2021.
The piece deconstructs popular dances from Latin America and reinterprets them through dance improvisation, thus challenging the strict gender-coded movements of traditional pair-dancing. The dance-installation arises from the performers' experiences as foreign women and artists living in Helsinki. It is built around three moments, each establishing a different dynamic between audience and performers.
cuerpalatina's choreographic language relies on improvised movement, making room for transgression and creativity beyond cultural stereotypes. Moreover, Latin dances are often over-stylized and might appear out-of-reach for many people. By bringing the spontaneity of dance improvisation to the forefront, cuerpalatina wishes to disseminate the joy and freshness at the core of several beats from Latin America.
*In Spanish, a gendered language, the word for “body” (cuerpo) is a “male” word. Cuerpa is a symbolic reappropriation of the word in the “female” form.
Founded by Mercedes Balarezo Fernández, Yes Escobar, Paola Nieto Paredes, and Daniela Pascual Esparza in 2021, Impropias Collective researches Latin American identities from an embodied, situated, and feminist standpoint. In Spanish, “impropia” is the female form for inappropriate, for something inadequate or untimely. It is also a play of words between “improvisation” and “propio”, which means cool and street-smart in Ecuadorian slang.
cuerpalatina is supported by Taiteen Edistämiskeskus/ The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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