LandScaping 0.4

To the ones who've been before

How can the experience of being part of a living environment be conveyed? In her installative choreography, Bianca Mendonça condenses impressions from the Atacama Desert into a multi-layered collection of traces. What happens when we perceive the desert as a living being? And how is its exploitation linked to the European green revolution?

Mendonça and her team spent weeks researching in communities around San Pedro de Atacama. The encounters with wind and drought, shiny mineral salts, Andean cosmovision, sand, heat, time, lithium mining companies and living mountains form independent bodies of knowledge for the group. Dancing and installation objects approach the memories created on site and attempt to trace colonial traces.

Landscape: Bianca Mendonça, Marília Silva, Valerie Wehrens | Choreography: Bianca Mendonça | Dance & Co-Choreography: Marília Silva | Text: Valerie Wehrens | Technical direction & lighting: Roman Sróka, Simon Krämer | Costume & set design: Margareta Bartelmeß | Sound research: Timm Roller | Sound editing: Heinrich Lenz | Research partner: Constanza Ruiz Campusano | Photo: Alessandro De Matteis

Funded by: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

Supported by: tanzhaus nrw, TanzFaktur Köln, Tanzresidenz 2022 im Quartier am Hafen.