border corps

“Our roots are born in the brain and the heart, but they allow us to move.” The phrase is from Cuerpo fronterizo, a work that through contemporary dance investigates what it feels like to be an immigrant, with its personal consequences, the need for change that it pushes and the transformation of identity that it means.

Masks of roots and piles of clothes symbolically speak of origin and transit. The work includes three testimonies that speak of what is left behind and what is taken with you when you leave, of exile and of a love cut short by separation.

The production by the Penquista collective Escénica en Movimiento, under the direction of the Spanish choreographer Chevi Muraday, won the Ceres Award from the Biobío Region for Best Dance Work of 2015. 

Artistic direction and choreography Chevi Muraday Paredes
Assistant director Maripaz Briones Moraga
Performers Bárbara Bañados Placencia, David Denmark Burgos, Darwin Elso, Juanita Paz Saavedra and Cristóbal Santa María Cea
Text: Alberto Velasco
Testimony Ariana Bertin
Costume Nessagara Design for Performing Arts
Scenography and props Gonzalo Mella
Lighting Mauricio Campos
Music editing Cristian Reinas
Production and dissemination Camila Contreras Benavides
General production Stage in Movement
Subsidies Project selected by Culture Funds – Fondart National Council of Culture and the Arts - Chile
Prizes Best performing arts work - Dance 2015, CERES Regional Arts Awards Biobío