Yolanda Morales (Bremen)

For Freischwimmen I want to explore the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of movement as a form of cultural resistance. Dancing as an expression of the attempt to find a collective, self-empowered identity and to defy postcolonial and migrant rootlessness. Central to this is “the slowed down Cumbia Colombiana.” A dance that emerged in the social and geopolitical context of the borderlands between Mexico and the United States. Together with my team I want to research and document this and other dances. In this way, a physical-sensory encyclopaedia that resist the brutal consequences of capitalism will be created of dances threatened with extinction.