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Woven Dances
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Yelkaram: Weaving the Ancestral Body created by Diana Lara in collaboration with Isadora Paz and Gabriel Vallecillo is a dance and video-mapping performance that focuses on Honduran Lenca indigenous rituals about water protection and weaving traditions reinterpreted by a group of artists with Honduran heritage. The performance aims to highlight our ancestors’ practices to protect their environment and maintain the balance between the physical and spiritual worlds. By intertwining movement, rituals, and visuals Yelkaram celebrates the strength of the Lenca women to recover and safeguard their traditions and natural resources in the face of extractivism.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Blending mythology, custom, ancient ritual and modern perspectives, two dancemakers come together on a shared mixed discipline program aptly titled, Woven Dances. Diana Lara’s Yelkaram: Weaving the Ancestral Body mines water and textile practices in Honduran civilizations and traditions, while the folk dances of monsters by Cecily Holcombe challenges the viewer to consider concepts of fright and the imagination.
Heather Desaulniers
Contributing Writer
ODC/Dance
ODC/Dance was one of the first U.S. companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.
ODC/Dance was one of the first U.S. companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.