Frontera / Procesión – A Ritual of Água [A Water Ritual]

Amanda Piña

Dance - Outside the walls.

Rendezvous in front of the Jean Vilar Theatre in Vitry-sur-Seine.

In partnership with the Festival d'automne à Paris, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne and the Théâtre Jean Vilar.
Mexican-Chilean artist Amanda Piña invites you to take part in a dance stroll in the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine. Frontera / Procesión – A Ritual of Água is an energetic dance for public space inspired by indigenous rituals and hip-hop culture. Through this dance, Amanda Piña seizes the public space to rise collectively and artistically against the multiple oppressions that women’s bodies undergo.
In an approach at the crossroads of anthropology, history, philosophy, visual arts and dance, she explores the possibilities of a choreography of borders, mixing colonial narratives, indigenous practices and hip-hop culture. By associating with her work people on the margins, women in precarious situations, vulnerability and amateurs, the choreographer invents a contemporary «water ritual», imagines new forms of solidarity, movements aimed at decolonizing the arts, but also the bodies.
Artistic direction and choreography, Amanda Piña
With Matteo Marziano Graziano, Daphna Horenczyk, Jorge Luis Cruz Carrera, Juan Carlos Palma Velasco, Lina Venegas, Rodrigo de la Torre Coronado and a group of amateurs
Choreography and transmission, Rodrigo de la Torre Coronado
Dramaturgy, Nicole Haitzinger
Design, Michel Jimenez
Research, Nicole Haitzinger, Amanda Piña
Music by Christian Müller
Live percussions, Juan Luiz Cruz Carrera
Costumes, La mata del veinte, Julia Trybula, Sartoria Soziale Coloring
Administration, Angela Vadori / Smart
Production nadaproductions
Something Great Distribution
Production of the Paris tour, Festival d'Automne in Paris
Co-production Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki); asphalt Festivals (Düsseldorf)
Co-direction La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Théâtre Jean Vilar, MAC VAL, Festival d'Automne à Paris pour la Procession à Vitry-sur-Seine.European Heritage Days at MAC VAL