meta theater: Levantandao Polvo حافظه از / Flausen Making Off

Levantando polvo/ از حافظه is an artistic research in which we explore the relation between body and territory through the lens of regional dances and music. By weaving together memory with gathered archives, we create an in-between world that merges distinct yet interconnected geographies. Drawing from regional dances in Bolivia and Iran, the project focuses on footwork-based practices as a form of dialogue with the land, where dance means resistance and resilience. During a fourweek residency at Meta Theater, we will research traditional dances such as Tinku in Macha Bolivia and Halparke in Kurdistan, Iran, investigating their historical and political contexts and their connection to the territory. A central component of our research is the experimentation with placing two dance and music archives in dialogue with one another, allowing them to interact and generate new narratives. We seek to explore how our footwork practice can merge with our archives of music, text, images, and video, expanding into digital and virtual realms—a blended digital landscape that critically interweaves our memories with the histories of these places.

Im Rahmen des Flausen Stipendiums wird die Gruppe „cobracobra“ mit Sharon Mercado, Kiana Rezvani, Maryam Fazeli und Wro Wrzesińsk vier Wochen lang am Meta Theater an ihrem Forschungsprojekt arbeiten und als Finale mit einem makingOFF Einblicke in ihre künstlerischen Ergebnisse bieten.