SKH Dance Open Lectures: Amanda Pina

The School of Mountains and Waters

In this lecture artist-researcher, Amanda Piña presents her latest work – The School of Mountains and Waters, (La Escuela de la Montañas y las Aguas) – addressing climate change and mining extraction in the central Andes of Chile.

The different activities of the school invite to establish caring relationships between human bodies and bodies of mountains, glaciers and water, addressing mountains as living bodies active in the re-creation of water.  The School of Mountains and Waters is proposed as a school unlearning the modern/colonial idea of the human, understood as pre-existent and separated from that which sustains its life.

This cycle of works corresponds to the Volume 5 of her long-term research on Endangered Human Movements*.

Endangered Human Movements

Endangered Human Movements is the title of a long-term project, started in the year 2014, focusing on human movement practices that have been cultivated for centuries all over the world. Within this frame, a series of performances, workshops, films, installations, talks, publications and a comprehensive online archive are developed, in which ancestral embodied practices -movements, dances and forms of world-making – re-appear in the context of the theatre, the museum and beyond.

This re-appearance of ancestral forms of movement entails a movement towards decolonizing contemporary arts and culture by introducing critical perspectives from the fields of anthropology, history, philosophy, visual arts, dance, choreography and contemporary-traditional Amerindian knowledge, the latter encompassing not only contemporary shamanism but also orally transmitted knowledge, social knowledge about the body and the territory, about movement and touch, about healing, about plants and about ritual diplomatic knowledge applied to the relationship with others as the interconnectedness of all life forms.

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SKH Dance Open Lectures

SKH Dance Open Lectures is a recurring lecture series where the Department of Dance welcomes the public to join in as dancers and academics associated with SKH Dance share their work and ideas in a variety of forms and formats.

2022

• 27 januari Decolonizing the body - a question of technique, Thomas Talawa Prestö
• 15 februari Grief and the Dancing Body: Creating in the midst of times of loss, loneliness and injustice, Phyllis Akinyi
• 8 mars Jibz Cameron a.k.a. Dynasty Handbag.
• 11 april Eugenia Cadús
• 25 april Donald Molosi 
• 14 september Florence Peake
• 13 October Una Bauer
• 1 November Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha
•  9 November Nora Bateson

2023

• 23 January Sara Manente
• 22 March Amanda Pina