Woman Scream Celebrates International Women's Day Dancing

 

 

Next Tuesday, March 8, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. (Dominican time) in commemoration of International Women's Day, The Woman Scream Festival 2022 (Grito de Mujer), in its twelfth edition, will be celebrating our women ancestors with the premiere online of the dance-performance ONGAMIRA, a video synopsis of the wonderful and moving dance work of the Argentine dancer and choreographer, Karina Roldán.

ONGAMIRA is a dance-performance in tribute to the native people of Comechingón, in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. The choreographic and theatrical work is located in the Ongamira valley. Rituals and transformations take place in the valley of the moon, the coexistence of primitive men and women.

If you don't want to miss this exclusive online premiere, subscribe to the YouTube channel of Grito de Mujer-Woman Scream cause, so you could receive notification. (Intro description will be Spanish, however dance is a universal language it will move you!).  https://youtu.be/1c7DJ7zplUg

 

The international Woman Scream Festival (Grito de Mujer) in its 12th edition, and in support of the initiatives of the Action Coalitions for Generation Equality of UN Women for the next 5 years.

 

 

 


Synopsis

 

It is a tribute to the courage of the native people of Comechingón (Argentina). Its red sandstone mountains carved by the winds, have the caress of the moon, the roar of the sun.

Ongamira, rich in minerals, is the energy of everything created and carries the heritage of their sculpted souls in the caves and in the collective consciousness that is maintained through the cultivation of native plants. An awareness that, in the present, makes us reflect on that past and at the same time learn to be with silence, understanding our place in the world. Ongamira is the body of the sacred land and the spirit of the ancestors.

The choreographic and theatrical work is located in the Ongamira valley, passing through the Pajarillo hill, the Uritorco hill, the Charalqueta hill and the city of ERKS. Rituals and transformations take place in the valley of the moon, the coexistence of primitive man and woman, the discovery of the parasitic possession of our organs and our brain. The force of a land that expels and attracts people in the same way. Ongamira is solitude and teaches us to discover the here and now, connecting physically and spiritually. The nest, the walls we build, the environment necessary for subsistence, the death that is always in front of our eyes. Ongamira was a healing center that, even in these times, places us in the very center of the earth and the cosmos, taking care of us as individuals and in community. Ongamira beats and is a certainty in the heart.

𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗮́𝗻


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Idea, staging, Choreography and Artistic Direction

KARINA ROLDAN


The Comechingones (Dancers)
 
CAMILA PEREZ
LUCIA MORENO
LUCAS PAPALARD
JUAN JOSE BERECOECHEA
MELINA GOLD
SOFIA VALLEY MAYORGA


Medicine woman, shaman

KARINA ROLDAN


Music

ORCHESTRA OF NATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Director ALEJANDRO IGLESIAS


Text written by

KARINA ROLDAN


illumination

ALEJANDRO SERGIO MOLINARI


Shooting

IN THE AUDIOVISUAL FIELD - DELFINA APRILE and MARTIN CASCO -


Photographs

MAXIMUM PARPAGNOLI


Layout and editing

CARLOS D. PEREZ