FRAGILE 2024:
AMAZONIA 2040
Play video
Fri 27.09.24, 19:30
Sat 28.09.24, 18:00
Recommended from ± 14 years
Duration 55min
Place: Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction, Bundesallee 260, 42103 Wuppertal
- Tickets:
- regular 18 €
- reduced 9 €
- groups of young people / schools 6 €
The solo performance AMAZONIA 2040 by Colombian choreographer Martha Hincapié Charry was developed in the jungle during the pandemic lockdown. The piece reflects on the present, past, and future of the Amazon rainforest, exploring themes of home, habitat, and inhabitants, as well as activism and the disappearance of biodiversity amidst the climate crisis. Martha’s Quimbaya indigenous roots make her narrative about the Amazon particularly compelling. Alongside a video installation, she provides vital information about the state of the Amazon region and its indigenous communities, that are seriously threatened by environmental destruction.
Images of the rainforest, portraits of indigenous peoples, contextualization in places like Chiribiquete, and personal storytelling come together in a celebration-meditation—a layered performance that becomes an intimate ritual. Amazonía 2040 is a celebration of the region and its contacted and uncontacted communities, presenting striking images that confront the viewer with the deterioration of this sacred habitat. Video projections of expanses of plastic and trash, contrasted with a large panorama of the region, create a pervasively disturbing effect.
The performance poses critical questions: What will the state of the Amazon rainforest be in 20 years? How do political landscapes influence our relationship with nature? What can we learn from ancestral cultures to renew this relationship? Amazonía 2040 is a powerful reflection on these urgent issues.
Martha Hincapié Charry is a BIPoC Colombian artist, curator, choreographer, performer, and researcher.
She earned her Master’s degree in Arts from the University of the Arts, UdK Berlin. She studied dance in Colombia and completed her dance theatre and solo dance studies at the Folkwang University in Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch. In 2019, she received the prestigious Pina Bausch Fellowship.
Her creations have been showcased at festivals and venues across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She serves as the artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin Festival. Her curatorial practice examines (de)colonial processes and the survival strategies of artists migrating to Europe or engaging in local utopias. In 2021/22, she was an associate curator at Radialsystem Berlin.
Hincapié Charry has developed several unlearning spaces focused on underrepresented BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) expressions. She facilitates a dialogue between continents through a transdisciplinary reflection on the body, addressing themes such as climate chaos, the human/more-than-human relationship, and the interplay between the visible and invisible worlds.
- Credits:
- Director, Choreographer, Performer: Martha Hincapié Charry
- Special Guest: Miguel Yauenku Tikuna
- Video installation: Liliana Merizalde & Sebastián Rosas - La Vuelta al día
- Sound design: Brendan Dougherty / Samaquias Lorta
- Lighting design: Jörg Bittner
- Photos of Nukak women: Joana, Monica, Buma, Chrisi & Monica Federico Rios Escobar
- Photos of Chiribiquete : Jota Arango
- Supporting images: Juan Vivescalle
- Footage Pirá-Paraná: Macuna Community, Niels Halbertsma
- Costumes / harness piece: Federico Polucci
- Dramaturgy consultant: Paul White
A production of Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur, Dock11, Plataforma Berlin In collaboration with Fundación Herencia Ambiental: Carlos Castaño Uribe, Procat Colombia: José F. Gonazalez Maya & Diego Zarrate Thanks to La Sierra Artist Residency.