Friday, July 25, 2008

Red Spots White Potato




The dance group Afro Imala, in his debut, tour of two worlds, working on the recreation of culture afrolationamericana specifically Candomble in Brazil. This expression is the result of the "mixture" of elements of African origin who came to America through the slave trade, in an effort to preserve their own culture, absorb and transform elements of Portuguese culture, Indian and African, giving place al culto del Candomblé.
El Candomblé es una expresión folclórica que describe las maneras de rendirle culto a los Orixás o deidades de la mitología Afro-Yoruba ( principalmente). Dentro de esta manifestación cultural, cada uno de éstos personajes o Orixás, tiene sus toques de tambor y danzas específicas. Estas deidades tienen una calidad de movimiento particular en función del elemento de la naturaleza que personifican. Además, representan una interpretación de las relaciones sociales y de la cosmovisión de aquellos pueblos.
Tomando por referencia aquello que sucede entre África y Brasil, luego de una investigación de estas expresiones folclóricas, nos propusimos recrear estos elements in a staging that addresses the apparent conflict between the world of the gods and the humans. Apparently, for these deities, unlike those known in the Western world, there are deities who remain in a place outside of the underworld, rather, enter it in the body of a supposed antagonism descendants mutating into a new middle ground : the transformation. Besides these deities dissolve the polarity between masculinity and femininity (that characterize the Western world) incorporating a worldview so different and enriching.

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