Datum: 18 januari avond 19:00
Locatie:  ATD, Jodenbreestraat 3, zaal 8.09
Medewerkers:  Juan Carlos Palma Velasco / Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica.

In de herfst van 2022 reisden wij, een groep tweedejaars studenten van DAS theater, naar Mexico City om onderzoek te doen naar manieren van omgaan met rouw en dood in de Mexicaanse cultuur en traditie. Als onderdeel van dit onderzoek namen we deel aan Mexicaanse folkloristische danslessen.
 
Hoe kan "embodied practice" een manier zijn om kennis te dekoloniseren? Hoe kan dans een manier zijn om te rouwen?
 
We willen graag een workshop Mexicaanse folkloristische dans organiseren voor de studenten van de ATD, online geleid door professor Juan Carlos Palma Velasco van de Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica. In deze workshop maken we kennis met folkloristische dansen die te maken hebben met rouw. Na de workshop is er een gesprek met de studenten van beide academies om een brug te slaan tussen Amsterdam en Mexico-Stad, de AHK en het Inbal (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura).
 
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In autumn 2022 we, a group of second year students of DAS theatre, travelled to Mexico City to look into ways of relating to grief and death in Mexican culture and tradition. As a part of this research, we took part in Mexican folkloric dance classes. Can embodying a practice be a way to decolonize knowledge? How can dance be a way to grief? We believe that our movement workshop is a way of extending the embodied archive of culture. The workshop will consist of introduction, theoretical and practical parts as well as Q&A. Dancers and choreographers as well as people interested in movement practice and research are invited to take part in the workshop (open level). 

We propose a workshop of Mexican folkloric dance for the students of the ATD, led online by Professor Juan Carlos Palma Velasco of the Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica. In this workshop we will encounter folkloric dances related to grief. After the workshop there will be a conversation with the students of both academies to create a bridge between Amsterdam and Mexico City, the AHK and the Inbal (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura).

Danza de los diablos: 

In this course we will work on the practical and corporal bases of an Afro-descendant dance tradition from the southern coast of Mexico; we will learn about the corporeality present in the dance of the devils of Cuajinicuilapa Guerrero and its link with the celebration of the Day of the Dead.

Juan Carlos Palma is a Mexican indigenous (mixtecan) origin artist, performer, and researcher in the field of traditional and post folkloric dance. He currently works as a full-time professor at Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica / Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes - Mexico.

His practice has focused on memory, identity processes, as well as the embodiment and forms of actualization and change of traditional dances as ways of resistance to global colonial modernity, working from the body and its narratives as living archives.

He got a Master in Dance Research by Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e información de la Danza José Limón (CENIDID Mexico). Degree in folkloric dance from Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica (ENDF) and also certified as a specialist in Language Of Dance (LOD - Ann Hutchinson-Guest) by the Language Of Dance Centre, U.K. He has been awarded the grants Creadores Escénicos programme (2016-17) of the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and DanceWEB in Austria in 2021.