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Diaspora and Afro-Venezuelan Dance in honor of San Juan Bautista de Curiepe

This workshop is a space to feel and recognize the dance and rhythmic plots that unite the African diaspora beyond national territories. We intend to EntrAmar the African diaspora found in different parts of the world with the dance, sound and cultural universe of African origin that was rebuilt in Venezuela. With the threads that each participant brings from their own Afrodiasporic cultural universe, we will weave our Afrodiasporic dances. It is a space to enjoy sounds, images, gestures, and poetics typical of traditional Afro-Venezuelan dance, mainly those performed in honor of San Juan Bautista and San Benito. On this occasion we will focus on playfully exploring the dances with deep spiritual, historical and cultural foundations. They will be interpreted with the drum set “Mina”, “Culo é puya” and “Quitiplás” from Curiepe, a Venezuelan town, a Black-founded town for more than 300 years.

Period: 3 sessions December 12, 13, and 14

Time: 5:30 a 7:30 pm

Participants: (Max 15 people) Dancers, the general public, and the Afro-diaspora that is interested in approaching traditional Afro-Venezuelan dance from its playful and experimental sense.

Participants should bring comfortable clothing for body work and movement, and hydration

 

MÁS brings to you this workshop in association with: Proyecto Tramas and Seattle Amistad School

Location: Seattle Amistad School 1501 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102

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Meyby Ugueto-Ponce

@curiepelasabana @memoriasdanzadas2022 Website

is the author of “Two Towns of Free Blacks: Curiepe in Venezuela, San Mateo de Cangrejos, in Puerto Rico” (2022); “Interrupting enslaved life – freeing the soul of a child: Insurgent narratives in the arts about the political use of the body in enslaved women”; and an essay that is part of the thematic issue of Conexión Magazine, N 15, published in August 2021, entitled “Media narratives of insurgencies, resistance and anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean”, in which Ugueto-Ponce is co-editor. She has also published “Curiepe and San Mateo de Cangrejos: Black towns and counter-hegemonic examples of Afro-Caribbean thought” (2017); “Sociopolitical Insertion Mechanisms in Curiepe, Miranda State, Venezuela” (2015); “Blacks? Afros? Beyond a Manichaean and exclusive response. Reflections on the Venezuelan case (2015); Ideological approach to the Afro-Venezuelan in Venezuelan historiography: An anthropological look” (2014); “Dance in Afro-Venezuelan Culture (2002)”; she is co-author of: “Memory and Flavors of an Afro-Diasporic Dialogue Toward Food Justice: Contributions from the Venezuelan Experience” (2022); from “The producers of Barlovento speak. Inventory of cocoa post-harvest knowledge and practices” (2018); of “Popular power, gender and ethnicity: the Case of Insurgent Braids (2014); from Beyond the Footprints of Africa” (2009). She has assumed the Co-direction and direction of the documentaries “Buscando la Vida” (2007) and “El Niño Jesús de Curiepe. Weaving Cultures” (2012), respectively. Dr. Ugueto-Ponce combines her academic and artistic experience in the “Proyecto Tramas”.

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