The Divine Cypher
choreography
about katherine dunham maya deren ∞ ayiti ∞ 2021
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18 and 19 November 2021 : Premiere
La Briqueterie / CDCN Val-de-Marne,
within the framework of
the Festival d’Automne à Paris /
Portrait Lia Rodrigues
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February 2022
Kaaitheater, Bruxelles, Belgique
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May 2022
LAC Lugano, Suisse
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June 2022
Festival Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, France
Bienal Anozero, Coimbra, Portugal
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July 2022
Festival Impulstanz, Wien, Austria
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October 2022
NAO Performing Festival // Le alleanze dei corpi, Milano, Italy
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November 2022
Alkantara Festival, Lisboa, Portugal
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December 2022
BLACK BERLIN BLACK, Berlin, Germany
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March 2023
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
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April 2023
Mercat de Flors, Barcelona, Spain
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June 2023
Present Futures Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland
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July 2023
Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
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September 2023
35th São Paulo Biennial – choreographies of the impossible, Brazil
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November 2023
Spielart Festival München, Germany
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June 2024
Holland Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
ANTENA IA MBAMBE
imagery
Ana Pi with
Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê
Footwork, ceramics, iron oxide, revolving metallic structure, motors, various suns, monitors, looping video-animation, printed flag, photography and digital manipulation, various moons, cowrie shells and palha da costa, bell, all directions, fio de contas from Tempo Nkisi, mast, cabaça, audio, sound system, 16 baobab seeds, various earths, pára-raio leaves from Kaiongo Nkisi, quebra-feitiço and mukumbi leaves from Rogi Nkisi, various eyes from Unzó Mutálambô Ye Kaiongo in Cajazeiras XI, various winds, transmission, various waters and fundamental continuity of the Divinal Bakongo secret.
Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 35th Bienal – Choreographies of the Impossible – curated by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes, Manuel Borja-Villel, and co-produced with Sesc – Serviço Social do Comércio. This participation was supported by Institut français.
RAW ON
choreography
NO WAR ∞ 2022
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with DJ FIRMEZA
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paris performance
fondation pernod ricard
2022
‘circular festival
vila do conde
2023
‘HKW
berlin
2023
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corps ancré; steady body; corpo firme
pedagogy
STEADY BODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures
The complex ensemble of Afro-diasporic dances is one of the most enduring ancestral technologies of resistance that we know nowadays. These manifestations, reinvented by the black population where we now understand as the American Continent and the Caribbean territories, were for a long time categorized as folkloric, ethnic, animist, tribal, social, popular, rural or even urban, so that some studies could be performed. Many of these investigations, by prioritizing “museification” dynamics, through the logics of what is or isn’t collectible or editable, ended up hiding what remains most sophisticated and free in these emancipation practices.
Through the lab called – STEADYBODY; peripheral dances, sacred gestures – we’ll essay the various component layers of these radical movements in what is common to all : futurity, groove, tension, recodification and image travelling. In order to cultivate and expand this knowledge by the timeless and live approach, we’ll create an experience through different traditional axes and artistic regimes, each journey as an opportunity to dive inside some evergreen histories, major figures, esthetics, crossroads between poetics and politics of invisibility and this steadybody whom reorganize the contemporary’s World imaginaries and repair in beauty the word: navigation.
Algorithm Ocean True Blood Moves
choreography
Another Anagram of Ideas
research
Artist Research Fellowship programme by Cisneros Institute and MoMA.
[…] Another Anagram of Ideas, includes a video and this text, addressing dreams, recodification, and radical imagination. Wherein, I choreographed images and words while transiting between balance, tension, and subtlety. The action of carrying water on the head, very present in Haiti and at the Festa da Lavagem do Bonfim in Bahia, was the physical gesture that went along with all of my moves during this entire making. The investigation of transdisciplinarity and translation, perseverance and invisible histories, required a poetic conversation more precisely with the notions of rhythm, repetition, and the permanence of ancestral African gestures in the diaspora. I invite you to focus your attention, to see and experience the vitality of these radical heritages, where dance is the deepest way of thinking about humanity, fertility, and the future.
Rádio Concha
imagery
Rádio Concha, de Ana Pi & Maria Fernanda Novo, é um conjunto de obras formado por um livro-jogo, uma vídeo-instalação e 7 emissões, são elas:
« Moeda » a concha dos tempos remotos.
« Fartura » a concha das cozinhas comunitárias.
« Próspera » a concha que concebe riquezas.
« Orgásmica » a concha metáfora do bem viver da energia feminina.
« Estratégica » a concha dos povos que se emanciparam.
« Atlântica » a concha e a navegação das diversas superfícies.
« Divinatória » a concha dos oráculos africanos.
Rádio Concha foi exibida e comissionada pela Frestas Trienal de Artes.
O BANQUETE
choreography
about love ∞ 2019
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mostra verbo + videobrasil
galeria vermelho ‘ brasil
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videobrasil
ccsp ‘ brasil
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plateaux
mac val ‘ france
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festival d’automne
cnd ‘ france
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antigel festival
switzerland
∞ 2017
about black and blue
artdanthé 2017
théâtre de vanves ‘ france
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circular 2017
vila do conde ‘ portugal
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the future is feminist 2017
beurschouwbourg ‘ belgique
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les plateaux 2018
théâtre jean vilar ‘ france
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bad 2019
bilbao ‘ españa
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la rose des vents 2019
scène nationale ‘ france
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latitudes contemporaines 2019
théâtre oiseau mouche ‘ france
research
Face au grand tremblement actuel du monde, comment pouvons-nous toucher le sol ?
Dancing Museums est l’occasion de vivre l’expérience du corps du musée. Provoquer le mouvement à l’intérieur de cette institution (connue pour son silence et un comportement modéré), la danse offre la possibilité d’expérimenter de nouvelles sensations, plus radicales. Je pense le musée comme un lieu dédié à la préservation de la mémoire. Quels gestes voulons- nous sauvegarder ? Quels nouveaux gestes voulons- nous inventer ? Quelle expérience de corps voulons- nous projeter pour le futur au sein de l’institution muséale?
– Ana Pi, 2019
#decoloniality #inclusion #horizontality #verticality #archive #periphery #centre #culture #dance #displacement #formality #intimacy #border #transdisciplinarity
#museum #dancingmuseums
RACE imagery
∞ 2021
about breath
Film de danse muet et lecture live accompagnée en musique
Travail ambivalent, présentiel ou virtuel, selon le contexte sanitaire en vigueur.
Idée originale, réalisation, images et montage, scénographie et costumes, chorégraphie et texte, lecture live : Ana Pi
Participation live :
Chassol
Danse et collaborations chorégraphiques :
Dudu Sorriso, Jhones Vogue, Negona Dance, Samy Oliveira, Tiphany Gomes, Vitinho do Passinho de la Cie. @favelinhadance – Brésil
Lieu de Tournage :
Centre Culturel Lá da Favelinha – Brésil
festival parallèl
captation Margaux Vendassi
COROA chorégraphie
∞ 2018
about trauma and verticality
mostra verbo
galeria vermelho ‘ brasil
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le centre ne peut tenir
lafayette anticipations ‘ france
èscultura choreography imagery
Avec les visiteurs, les visiteuses et le personnel du MAC VAL.
En partenariat avec La Briqueterie – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National du Val-de-Marne et avec le soutien de Creative Europe, programme de l’Union Européenne.
Présenté également au Plastique Danse Flore.
∞ 2021
about the touch
Quelques jours avant la Première de sa nouvelle pièce The Divine Cypher, Ana Pi fait un pas de côté aux Soirées Nomades et invite l’artiste, danseuse traditionnelle et professeure haïtienne Marie-Ange Aurilin à la rejoindre sur le plateau. D’un siècle à l’autre, trois femmes engagées – Ana Pi, Maya Deren et Marie-Ange Aurilin – nous parlent d’Haïti, de rituels et de poésie.
∞ 2021
about performing knowlegde and transmission
imagery choreography pedagogy research
Seria a fumaça o presente, o passado ou o futuro do fogo?
∞ 2021
about displacing the colonial fiction
LE TOUR DU MONDE DES DANSES URBAINES EN 10 VILLE pedagogy choreography research imagery
LE TOUR DU MONDE DES DANSES URBAINES EN 10 VILLE pedagogy choreography research imagery
Over the last 10 years I have shared with many people and places the power of dances that come from the streets. This work has demanded a lot of tonus and dedication from me; there have been approximately 500 presentations all around the world. By very little this amazing journey would have been chewed up, erased and made invisible by the disappearing machine.
One day I’ll publish my book and I’ll tell you more about this roadtrip.
This conférence dansée was an opportunity to collectively reflect about:
speaking as many languages as possible
giving and receiving smiles and sweetness
moving from within the trauma
knowing evil and dance beauty
crossing higher mountains and feel earthquake
peripheral gaze infinite perspectives
cultivating the steps of my ancestors
writing a book and expand history
much more than 400 shows and tasting earth
choreographing the future and justice
having all ages inside a little body
healing the audience from the fear of death
listening to the temperature of the humanity
always improvise and shine and share life
sharing the afro-diasporic pedagogy
not letting the erasure happen
knowing how to stay inside a cypher and groove
creating the dialogue with the kids
helping to implode the binary
being whole in any space
returning to the great continent
with the best partners ever : PANTSULA + HOUSE + KRUMP + HIP HOP + BREAKDANCE + POPPIN + VOGUING + DUBSTEP + PASSINHO + KUDURO
Danse par sculpture, matériaux divers.
« Depuis l’intérieur de la pièce noire son regard m’a invité à danser, le blues. Entre nous, d’appel et réponse en appel et réponse, un rythme s’est mis en abyme. Le tissu, la peau, le regard. La peau, le regard, le tissu. Les yeux expiraient un seul et unique mystère. » Ana Pi // MAC VAL // Niqab Blues de Nil Yalter // Performance le 02.02.2020