ʀᴇʙᴇʟ ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇꜱ: ʙᴏʀᴅᴇʀꜱ ɪɴ ᴛʀᴀɴᴄ-ɪᴛ
Rebel Dances: Borders in Tranc-it is a performance that delves into states of in-betweenness and traveling worlds. The emotional distance between one geographic space and another one, the border controls, the faraway memories of ‘home’, the multiplicity of embodiments we carry as queer migrants. With the intention of reconnecting to our territories in Abya Ayala, this performance designs syncretic devices of resilience and resistance through embodied story-telling, performance and movement practices like cumbia rebajada and post-punk.
A group of performers invites the audience into an immersive theatrical experience that displaces their sense of orientation. Blurring the gap between concreteness and imagination, fantasy and testimony, the audience is driven into a dream-like realm where stories of migration, pleasure, fantasy, joy, and violence collide. The dirty queer and trans migrants take over the park, the street or just a regular building in the middle of the city to temporarily dislocate how our sense of normality and safety is reproduced. A coming together of rebel hearts, a space to wonder different decolonial horizons.
This project is initiated by Papaya Kuir and directed by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla.
Credits
Initiated by Papaya Kuir
Concept and Artistic Direction
Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla
Performance & Co-creation
Daniela Angel, Patri Roa Johansen, Liliana Estefania, Alejandra Zabala, Annette Rodriguez, Yoacin Villalobos, John Rodriguez, Nene Mone and Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla
Artistic Advising
Flavia Pihneiros and Floor van Leuwen
Costumes
Carly Everaert
Technical support
Nadia Bekkers and Nils Runderkampos
Production Assistance
Alejandra Zabala
Produced by
Papaya Kuir
“Rebel Dances takes the form of a string of performative vignettes that code-switch rapidly, and invoke a sense of disorientation. Scenes of joyful queer community alternate with ones that portray lived experiences of migration and displacement. Suddenly, an unassuming fence enclosing the playground transforms into the frontera of Colombia and Panama, one of the most dangerous borderlands in Latin America.” - Dagmar Bosma - metropolis M