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Simbi em águas astronômicas

© Heidi Ramirez

Synopsis

Inés Sybille Vooduness delves into the spiritual and existential narratives submerged beneath a land of high mountains: Ayiti. Is it possible to reterritorialize Haitian voodoo from an inherited diaspora? From selected steps of Angolan Kuduro, the dancer reaches a state in which she can establish a dialogue with Simbi, a family of deities that guard springs and waters. Krik? Krak! An aquatic tale begins in which Erzulie embarks on the ocean, the waters rise, and take the form of the ancestral serpent and the post-memory exercises. Can these gestures allow access to secrets and to the revolutionary temperature, to the invisible? Simbi and its different personifications from the mineral, vegetal, and aquatic realms propel a future that exists without time and is inscribed in a collective act of non-colonial dreams.

Artistic and Technical Information

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artistic direction, creation, interpretation: Inés Sybille Vooduness
artistic support: Camilo Mejía Cortés
set and costume design: Sofía Archer Lab
video: Heidi Ramírez
sound design: Nelsoniq
light design: Ivan Cascon
administration: agência 25
co-production: TNT Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto
co-production residencies: Cultura en viu (UAB), O Espaço do Tempo