+ SINP’A

Premiere:
16. October 2020 – tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/504356801
Concept and choreography: .Dencuentro

Collective members: Constanza Ruiz Campusano, Greta Salgado and Amanda Romero. https://www.facebook.com/Dencuentro.agc/

The performers* prepare. Tensions, distance and attraction grow. For a short moment, they all appear to hover, until their bodies are suddenly hurled onto each other and they clash with vehemence. A muffled smack. The bodies entangle until they disengage again, before the next encounter starts mounting. 

.Dencuentro, confront and interweave academic dance with the traditional form of expression in “Tinku”, a Bolivian battle ritual. “SINP’A” is a piece of encounters and confrontation. The encounter during which the women braid each other’s hair, the meeting in pugilism, the encounter between the dancers* with the music and the encounter of bodies floating into each other. “SINP’A” acts in the tension between co-operation and the resistance of different identities and opens the physical confrontation as another option to celebrate life.Which is a cultural concept that is present in many practices and believes of the andean cosmovision. 

Research supported and made possible by »Sprungbrett <>Tanzrecherche NRW« in cooperation with tanzhaus nrw and PACT Zollverein, where we also presented our research work during the festival tanz nrw (click to see reviews and information).
Research:
nov. ’19-jan. ’20 – »Sprungbrett <>Tanzrecherche NRW« at PACT Zollverein Essen, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf
mai 2019– tanz nrw (Tanzfaktur Köln, tanzhaus nrw, PACT, Krefeld, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn)
february 2019 – mARTadero Cochabamba, Bolivia
october 2019 – Research showing

(Rh)einfach Festival Tanzfaktur Köln
HundertPro Festival Ringlokschuppen Ruhr