is a research looking into choreographic paths of performance practice as spirituality 

from a kuir perspective, as a practice of liberation and an ethics of devotion to the environment and its procreation 

the ongoing process seeks to convey a mountain - a place to hide and to seek  

a space off limits to extract without taking -
a myth with no face -
a critical view on current and established modes of destruction and exploitative ( extractive ) logic

the mountain stands not solely for the sacred, but also for the hideous features of monocultures and binary systems - production and reproduction of banal goods - the accumulation of un goods _ the mountains of waste _ the mountains of food rotting away _ the mountains that war generates _ the mountains of first world waste displaced onto lands of the third world - Sea pilled with mountains of death and liveness. 

The rubber that entered the system by its elasticity and resiliency is also a material carrying a history of its own - not the one disseminated by the fetish industry, but one that starts from Putumayo and reflects past and currently open scars. 

UM~A is the name that begins from the end - an attempt to construct what could be a possible or impossible mountain

- a mountain made of imagery - and ongoing  futures

Credits

Creation and performance
Tis Aly
Farzaneh Nouri
Fred Raposo
Mavi Veloso

Costume - concept and development 
Tis Aly
Sunni Lamin Barrow
Lusia Rodrigues aka mujercobra

Light Assistant
Fred Raposo

Sound Artist - Creative Technologist
Farzaneh Nouri 

Sounds collector
Lea Arafah

Music - creation and performance
Lyon 

Mentorship
Pedra Costa

Production - technology assistant
ID - LAB

Thanks to Bike City Amstertrans.
Dr. da Borracha - Acre - Brazil
and other entities