Danza
Directed by: Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche | Assistant director and writer-scriptwriter-songwriter: Karen Carreño Rivera | Lighting and set design: Francisco Herrera Estay | Costume design and technical assistant: Natalia Morales Tapia | Sound design and electronic music: Joaquín Montecinos Ortiz | Producer: Alessandra Massardo | Performers: María Paz Silva Romero, Nathalie Moris Caniulef, Constanza Díaz Alfaro, Rosa Jiménez Cornejo, Belén Alvarez Belmar, Danitza Segura Licanqueo, Rodrigo Jorquera Márquez, Javier Muñoz Jimenez and César Cisternas Valdés.
Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche
Director
A performing artist of Mapuche origin, this dancer, teacher and professional choreographer graduated in Arts with a specialization in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Chile. As a performer, he has worked with outstanding Chilean and international choreographers, such as Lemi Ponifasio and Pablo Rotemberg.
As a creator, he has developed plays that connect the body with territorial identities and the crisis over the political status of Mapuche and native people in today’s society. His pieces include a high level of Mapuche symbolism, with the body being the main element on which his choreographic research is based. Among his plays, Kalfü Kütral, Malen, Weichafe, Kalül Rüpü (a video dance piece) and Mollfüñ: territorios de agua y muerte particularly stand out.
Ricardo Curaqueo’s Malen was named Best Chilean Dance Piece in 2017 by the Chilean Circle of Art Critics and also won a Clap! Award. Malen has been performed in Chile, Peru, Spain, Colombia and Germany.
Work in Progress: Mollfüñ, territorios de agua y muerte
By Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche
- Chile
- Spanish and Mapudungun with English subtitles
- 30 minutes
- + 9 años
Mollfüñ is a Mapudungun word that means blood in its organic, symbolic and political sense. It is a life-giving liquid substance that travels through our veins, pumped rhythmically by a fragile apparatus called a heart. Understood like this, mollfün is the essential water of the body, blood, a liquid territory inhabited by both life and death.
Mollfüñ is a contemporary dance, performance and light installation piece directed by dancer and choreographer Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche and performed by some of the cast from the plays Malen (2017) and Weichafe (2019).
Mollfüñ: territorios de agua y muerte is a play that deals with the water crisis from a territorial perspective, with death - or the end of life as we know it – the inevitable result. The creators ask themselves what life will look like after the worldwide water crisis, about the role the body plays in this crisis and how the use, exploitation and contamination of water has affected what bodies and territorial identities are like and how they exist. The play aims to support the recognition of dignity, the protection of territories and their resources and the restoration of fundamental human rights, such as the right to water and the right to live in a place free from contamination.
Directed by: Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche | Assistant director and writer-scriptwriter-songwriter: Karen Carreño Rivera | Lighting and set design: Francisco Herrera Estay | Costume design and technical assistant: Natalia Morales Tapia | Sound design and electronic music: Joaquín Montecinos Ortiz | Producer: Alessandra Massardo | Performers: María Paz Silva Romero, Nathalie Moris Caniulef, Constanza Díaz Alfaro, Rosa Jiménez Cornejo, Belén Alvarez Belmar, Danitza Segura Licanqueo, Rodrigo Jorquera Márquez, Javier Muñoz Jimenez and César Cisternas Valdés.
Ricardo Curaqueo Curiche
Director
A performing artist of Mapuche origin, this dancer, teacher and professional choreographer graduated in Arts with a specialization in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Chile. As a performer, he has worked with outstanding Chilean and international choreographers, such as Lemi Ponifasio and Pablo Rotemberg.
As a creator, he has developed plays that connect the body with territorial identities and the crisis over the political status of Mapuche and native people in today’s society. His pieces include a high level of Mapuche symbolism, with the body being the main element on which his choreographic research is based. Among his plays, Kalfü Kütral, Malen, Weichafe, Kalül Rüpü (a video dance piece) and Mollfüñ: territorios de agua y muerte particularly stand out.
Ricardo Curaqueo’s Malen was named Best Chilean Dance Piece in 2017 by the Chilean Circle of Art Critics and also won a Clap! Award. Malen has been performed in Chile, Peru, Spain, Colombia and Germany.
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