effects of coloniality, religion, and gender on the body, and that generate rituals to peel layers of oppression. Her choreography has been staged in San Francisco Bay Area venues including the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, NohSpace, Dance Mission Theater, among others. dianalara-somatics.com ISADORA PAZ TABOADA is a Honduran- Argentinian choreographer and performer, co-founder of DA escenica, an independent collaborative project based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She has been a resident artist at ADF Durham, NC and the National Choreographic Center in La Rochelle, France. She explores com- munity narratives, practices and performances promoting collective inquiry and intercultural dialogue through dance and performance. DA escenica: facebook.com/daescenica Visit counterpulse.org/edge2024/ for tickets and information about Savia~ SapFlow, made possible with generous support from CounterPulse Edge Residency and German Cultural Center in Honduras.
to carry water and for other uses in cooking and daily activities. Another element we explored both days was the use of the Lenca lan- guage. Currently, there is a process of recovery and revitalization of the Lenca language, which ceased to be spoken in the mid-20th century. The young women who attended the workshop are learning in school to speak and write one of the Lenca lan- guages. We encouraged the partici- pants to write a sentence related to Lenca culture in Spanish and Lenca and to incorporate movement into the sentence. The process was creative and playful and opened the door to collaboration among women from different generations. The scenarios of the body and the expression of dance are rooted in territories, collective memory, the
exchange between tradition and modernity, between multiple iden- tities. Dance continues to occur in squares, in the scenarios of the everyday, and also in dance halls and theaters. Our task as Honduran performing artists is to reinterpret this wealth of movements, sounds, rituals, emotions, and language that are alive in our Lenca culture and roots. We want to share this perfor- mance with others to motivate them to explore all their roots and espe- cially those that are less visible. It is not an easy task but it is worth the challenge. DIANA LARA is a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement educator born and raised in Honduras. Her choreographic work is influenced by contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering training, and Latinx cul- ture. She creates choreographies that explore the
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