Coreografías selváticas
Adriana Reyes
Dance the effects that plants have on your body.
/ Plants / Ritual / Communication / Experience / Body /
Coreografías selváticas is a piece that links live arts, anthropology and some experience of the plant world. It is an attempt to create a combined presence encompassing plants, the performer and the audience. Coreografías selváticas is about communication with plant life forms and the interest in the connections that we humans have been forging with the plant world. Whether through experimentation, alchemy or cultivation. Through rituals, shamanic ceremonies or recreational and culinary uses. Plants, medicine and poison. Food. Coreografías selváticas aims to be a book on botany in motion, an open book at least, to expand the aesthetic experience to other fields of perception.
Adriana Reyes is an anthropologist and creator in the field of live arts. She holds a Master’s Degree in Feminist Studies, specialising in sexualities and diversity. After a few years working in academia and activism, she has changed her focus to the live arts, especially dance. She has trained with various artists in Spain, Brazil and Portugal. She has been studying Amazonian flora for the past ten years, executing extensive and painstaking research in self-awareness and botany. Her fields of interest, recreation and work span the social sciences, live arts, transfeminist studies and medicine.
Created by: Adriana Reyes / In dialogue with: Tobacco, Mansoa alliacea, Bobinsana, Ushawasha, Abuta, Rosemary, Lavender, Siete Palos, Oje tree, Mocura, Coca, Ayahuaska, Madonna lily, Elderberry, Verbena and Camalonga / Artistic support: Janet Novás and Jesús Barranco / Theoretical support: Manuela Pedrón Nicolau and Florencia Carrizo / Lighting design: Cristina Bolívar / Technical team: Carles Borràs / Graphic documentation: Mariana Viana / Written documentation: Carolina Sisabel / Audiovisual documentation: Irene Navascués
Suported by: La Poderosa (Barcelona), Residencias Paraíso / Colectivo RPM (Galiza), CRA’P pràctiques de creació i recerca artística (Barcelona), MIT Ribadavia (Galiza), Exposició Licra / Lorenzo Andrade i Javi Cruz (Madrid)
