Rose of Winds

by María Peredo Guzmán

Finland

Rose of winds is a research project about the relationships between human and non-human beings, framed in open spaces. We inquire into the dialogues of one's own body with the body of mother earth, in an effort to recover the magnitude of the environment and experience it through photography and movement. The first turning point, North, is located in the forest of Hartola-Finland, and concentrates on a single urgent gesture: Embracing. This is the third collaboration between Daniel Oros and María Peredo Guzmán

Rose of winds was part of the Official Selection at Cuerpo Digital 2021, receiving the biggest number of visits online during the festival in Bolivia.

Concept and performance: María Peredo Guzmán (Bolivia)

Camera and Edition: Daniel Oros (Bolivia-Finland)

Production: Exilio Studio

Stepping Into Machine

by Jorge Poveda Yánez United Kingdom

With the advent of cognitive automation services, an aesthetic and kinetic gap is inaugurated for human dancers. The presented case of the ‘bionic step’ is an illustration of how permeable dance cultures are to technological developments, and how these in turn have shaped a new canon for how movement is performed, across digital spaces, bodies/avatars and in front of our phones and while stepping into our machine selves. While machines keep progressing in their quest to understand ‘feelings’, they leave behind a trace of images and movement that are constantly reincorporated by human performers to engage in choreography as a medium.

Producer: Jorge Poveda Yánez (Ecuador)

Director: Nina Davies (Canada)

Caged

by Lucia Rua Bustamante Peru

When you feel trapped in your own skin. Our bodies express all limitations and possibilities at once as an attempt to dig deeper, to find new escape paths into your skin, your bones, your muscles, every vein and every tissue, and in this process different landscapes appear, as a promise of liberation. Each body is a context, each body is a landscape in constant transformation. Carried out during the period of confinement in Lima, Peru (2020).

Director: Lucia Rua Bustamante (Peru)