Embodied Practices: EARTH BODIES – environmental grief
Martha Hincapié Charry
Dance Workshop
The process “EARTH BODIES – environmental grief” delves into the effects on the body of the sense of grief created by today’s constant onslaught of negative environmental change and human-made eco-disasters in order to document these effects. The research aims to explore the environmental grief we feel when our ecosystems are altered or threatened due to global warming or other environmental crises, specifically addressing the impact of climate change and extreme weather conditions on physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
“EARTH BODIES – environmental grief”, with an ecofeminist approach, reimagines (environ-)mental care through a decolonial perspective on climate anxiety by fostering biodiverse relationships and a regenerative approach. How are our bodies and all our relationships affected by environmental grief? The proposal opens channels of somatic, sensorial, and embodied encounter, creating an awareness space about the urgency of rewilding our wounded home. Human and more-than-human ancestral knowledge is invoked in a ceremonial space where participants are free to take off their shoes and get in touch with soil, experiencing an intimate, immersive space.
Visitor Information
The workshops are aimed at professional dancers of all ages, with and without disabilities.
Language: English
Duration: 3 hours
Number of participants: max 24
Cast
With
Martha Hincapié Charry
Cast
With
Martha Hincapié Charry
Biographies
Martha Hincapié Charry is a Colombian BIPoC artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer and researcher. IETM Global Connector, ISPA Global Fellow, Pina Bausch Fellow. Master's degree in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Bachelor's degree in Theatre Dance & Solo Dance from the Folkwang University in Essen, under the direction of Pina Bausch. Martha has been awarded the prestigious Pina Bausch scholarship. Her work has been invited to festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and the so-called Americas. She is the artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin festival. Her curatorial practice reflects on (de)colonial processes and the forms of survival of artists who emigrate to Europe or engage in geopolitical approaches to the territories of Abya Yala (the Americas). In 2021 and 2022, she was associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin. Hincapié Charry has developed several unlearning spaces focused on the underrepresented expressions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPoC). She facilitates dialogue between continents with a perspective of ancestral wisdom, embodying native ontologies based on earth and water, while addressing issues such as climate chaos, ecocide, human/more-than-human kinship, and the interaction between the visible and invisible worlds, from an ecofeminist position.
Biographies
Martha Hincapié Charry is a Colombian BIPoC artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer and researcher. IETM Global Connector, ISPA Global Fellow, Pina Bausch Fellow. Master's degree in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Bachelor's degree in Theatre Dance & Solo Dance from the Folkwang University in Essen, under the direction of Pina Bausch. Martha has been awarded the prestigious Pina Bausch scholarship. Her work has been invited to festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and the so-called Americas. She is the artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin festival. Her curatorial practice reflects on (de)colonial processes and the forms of survival of artists who emigrate to Europe or engage in geopolitical approaches to the territories of Abya Yala (the Americas). In 2021 and 2022, she was associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin. Hincapié Charry has developed several unlearning spaces focused on the underrepresented expressions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPoC). She facilitates dialogue between continents with a perspective of ancestral wisdom, embodying native ontologies based on earth and water, while addressing issues such as climate chaos, ecocide, human/more-than-human kinship, and the interaction between the visible and invisible worlds, from an ecofeminist position.
Visitor Information
The workshops are aimed at professional dancers of all ages, with and without disabilities.
Language: English
Duration: 3 hours
Number of participants: max 24
Credits
"Embodied Practices Extended" is part of the programme series "Conjunctions – Acts of Being in Relation". "Conjunctions" is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of its cross-disciplinary funding programme. With support from the Radial Foundation.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung
Credits
"Embodied Practices Extended" is part of the programme series "Conjunctions – Acts of Being in Relation". "Conjunctions" is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion as part of its cross-disciplinary funding programme. With support from the Radial Foundation.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: tip Berlin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung
The process “EARTH BODIES – environmental grief” delves into the effects on the body of the sense of grief created by today’s constant onslaught of negative environmental change and human-made eco-disasters in order to document these effects. The research aims to explore the environmental grief we feel when our ecosystems are altered or threatened due to global warming or other environmental crises, specifically addressing the impact of climate change and extreme weather conditions on physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
“EARTH BODIES – environmental grief”, with an ecofeminist approach, reimagines (environ-)mental care through a decolonial perspective on climate anxiety by fostering biodiverse relationships and a regenerative approach. How are our bodies and all our relationships affected by environmental grief? The proposal opens channels of somatic, sensorial, and embodied encounter, creating an awareness space about the urgency of rewilding our wounded home. Human and more-than-human ancestral knowledge is invoked in a ceremonial space where participants are free to take off their shoes and get in touch with soil, experiencing an intimate, immersive space.
Cast
With
Martha Hincapié Charry
Biographies
Martha Hincapié Charry is a Colombian BIPoC artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer and researcher. IETM Global Connector, ISPA Global Fellow, Pina Bausch Fellow. Master's degree in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Bachelor's degree in Theatre Dance & Solo Dance from the Folkwang University in Essen, under the direction of Pina Bausch. Martha has been awarded the prestigious Pina Bausch scholarship. Her work has been invited to festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and the so-called Americas. She is the artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin festival. Her curatorial practice reflects on (de)colonial processes and the forms of survival of artists who emigrate to Europe or engage in geopolitical approaches to the territories of Abya Yala (the Americas). In 2021 and 2022, she was associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin. Hincapié Charry has developed several unlearning spaces focused on the underrepresented expressions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPoC). She facilitates dialogue between continents with a perspective of ancestral wisdom, embodying native ontologies based on earth and water, while addressing issues such as climate chaos, ecocide, human/more-than-human kinship, and the interaction between the visible and invisible worlds, from an ecofeminist position.
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