SUSTAINABLE BODIES

Sustainable Bodies is a community dance performance based on water and how it’s getting drained from our world slowly, taking with it the abundance and life it allows us all. And the water that does stay is daily getting more and more contaminated by all residues we discard. Let’s make change!!

My costumes emulated to represent the chaos plastic turns our water into, how it swallows all living beings and throws back into the earth a disfigured, suffering version of what life was.

All materials used for the costumes were donated to the project by recycling institutions of Poblenou, a historically industrial neighbourhood in Barcelona, and conquered by the dancers. The base costumes were all in colour tonalities that should remind the public of the colours of life underwater, from algae to crustaceans, passing by fish and invertebrates.

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This Community Dance Project has been created as part of the Global Water Dances 2021.

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Concept and realisation by: Gabriela Lotaif

Costume Making assisted by: Zarina Rondón

Choreography by: Anna Katalin Nemeth

Choreography Assistance by: Roberta Ruggiero

Conscious Movement and Philosophy Support by: Dasha Lavrennikov

Performance by: Lara Kuhlmann, Carlotta Cataldi, Lily-Marine Franceschini, Valerie Pietri, Marine Henniot, Swapnil Kulkarni, Gosia Sielinska, Cora Mosel, Mery de Lorenzi, Erica Ponce Ortiz, Momen Nabil, Carolina Margarita Robleto Bolaños, Sandra Martin Lara, Zarina Rondón Bordones, Sylvie le Roux, Triny Reinoso, Katharina Löffler, Berta Hernández Villá, Sandra Barosso, Aagnes Balfegó Brull and Sam Morrison.

Photography by: Barska Photo Stories, owned by the photograoher Dominika Barska and Ana Luz Sanz

Dramaturgy and Production Support by: Pau Partabella

Design by: Kai Thostrup

Costume Design and Realisation by: Gabriela Lotaif

Music Consultancy and editing by: Jordi Rabascall

Production by: Julia Bertolaso

Host: Apocapoc Barcelona

Collaboration Partner: Tree Nation

External Eye: Maria Fernanda Soberon

Video and Editing by: Maxime Boniface

Video Assistance by: Sebastien Detroyat

Supported by: Tanz und Theater im Phynix e.V, Global Water Dances, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.