>> “The art of the movement I am looking for is not about a specific form and not about a "technical work of art", but about authenticity where the intention of the body movement is clear” The closest I can get to the root of dance is a ritual. I experiment with authentic movement, soefi, and several other rituals where vibration & long endurance are part of the process and performance. I strive for my art to be immersive, interdisciplinary and in dialogue with my witnesses (audience). <<

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Cat(h)arsis, before "The Artist is Resident", arose with my necessity to (re-) find my decolonialized body, mind and body- language. In 2019 Berith Danse invited me as an artist in residency at Plein Theater in Amsterdam, where I worked out a concept that I had in mind since my very first encounter with authentic movement back in 2004 during my Dance Therapy Study.

I invited three Latin American artists, two of them familiar with ritualistic practises and all of them integrating both Western and South American knowledge and experiences within their art. Pablo Alanes (audiovisual art), Roberto Callisaya (windinstruments & percussion), Isaac Espinoza Hidrobo (violin). With the direction in dramaturgy of Vincent Verburg we found an open/ closed structure of sounds, visuals and an object, that gives my authentic movement space and time to evolve and allows the audience to be the witness of a journey that follows the “dramaturgy of the body” as Vincent Verburg states.

 

My aim is to keep on evolving Cat(h)arsis Ritual Installation as a continuum. A safe space where we can witness transformation.