Carla Forte and Alexey Taran winners of the Performing Americas Creative Exchange Residency / National Performance Network

Residency Program

• TALASHIMAII - Dance Video produced during the Artistic Residency in Colombia June-July, 2015. 

Talashimaii is a Video-Art/Dance on Camera project directed by Carla Forte and Alexey Taran that seeks to highlight the beauty of the simple and the quotidian; to rescue those moments, full of life, that characterize us as human beings beyond social, racial, or gender distinctions. 

Talashimaii  is a visual work that combines dance with the quotidian, taking simplicity as its starting point. Dance driven from the subconscious, authentic movement that emerges from the essential and indispensable; dancing as a human and social need. The daily routine of quotidian actions within a lifestyle of simplicity regarding material necessities, where emotions become protagonists and take ownership of every scene. 

Talashimaii  brings in low-income individuals and families of Valledupar, Colombia, common people without great material pretensions who narrate their own stories through movement and through quotidian actions from daily routine, where emotions will serve as the vehicle to take spectators into an inner world to be reunited with themselves.

• "Making visible the shadows" workshop at Centro Cultural de la Guajira, Riohacha, Teatro Maderos in Valledupar and Colegio del Cuerpo in Tadeo Caribe Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Cartagena, Colombia.

Supported by Performing Americas Creative Exchange Residency / National Performance Network, Fundacion Cultural Divulgar, Plataforma Canibal, Teatro Maderos, FUNDAM Festicaribe and Bistoury.

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