To Critter

To Critter an eco-sensual invitation to transcend the boundaries of the human self, to connect with what lies beyond the skin. To be and become— with the Soil, the Trees, the Water, the Sun, and the More-than-human world that we never left, drawing inspiration from TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) and Indigenous Technology. It is the result of a path to unleash the sensorial body as a site of decolonial ecological knowing, through a year of body practices in Berlin’s forests and interactions with their More-than-human beings.

The body-based research and performative images have been inspired by the words of Indigenous poets Natalie Diaz and Ángela Mavisoy. The decolonial and posthumanist framework developed for the piece includes works by José V. Rodríguez, Walter Mignolo and Donna Haraway. To Critter asks about entanglement and biological interdependence not as a theory but as an embodied praxis.

Angélica is a Colombian artist and physicist with an interdisciplinary approach to dance, creation, and performance. As director of the dance company LaMultiverse, she has presented her choreographic work in Colombia, the United States, Spain, and Germany. In addition to performing her own pieces, she has danced with companies such as Dante, Danza Experimental de Bogotá, Jennifer Müller/The Works, Nina Buisson NY, Teatro Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, and The Bridgeworks.  @angelicaroa_lamultiverse / @lamultiverse