Sensual. Sexual. Unapologetic. Latinidad. Cubanidad. Languaging blackness and latinxness in a form of movement and conversation. Verbal and non-verbal communication. Iluminada por las necesidades de recuerdo y honor de las mujeres en mi vida y antecesores.
What does it look like to unite the spiritual, mental, emotional, physical layers of the self?
Drawing from cultural experiences to drive my artistry. Encouragement of discovery, growth, and reclamation of the self. I am inspired by the pelvis, hips, waist, and overall curvature of a woman’s body. A place (or places) where love and trauma coexist.
Influences of Afro-Caribbean dance and methodologies. Feminism and divine feminity pour into the work I call my own. I am inspired by Rihanna’s sexual reclamation and ownership of the body; Savage x Fenty Volume I and II. CaribFunk Technique by A’Keitha Carey initiated my needs to work in the field of womanhood and Afro-Caribbean movement, storytelling, reclamation.
What is it to be a woman? What are experiences women of color have that can be used to deconstruct white values in society? How can women reclaim themselves?
LA MUJER: THE FILM
La Mujer is in collaboration with women who utilize their bodies as resistance against oppression and misogyny through movement. I am speaking to/for women of color, specifically to Latinx and black-identifying communities. This film holds an intersection of experiences from different women of color and activates them as retaliation against oppression and colonized societal values.
questions driving my thesis;
How can the body be utilized to resist? What does it mean to resist?
What movement or cultural practices are used to resist or fight against something?
What parts of the human body hold the most trauma? The most power?
What experiences have led you to be the woman you are today?
What does it mean to be a woman?
How are women affected by policing of the body?
Caribbean-based and hip-hop movements influence my thesis.
collaborative process. women empowerment. vulnerability. latinidad. blackness. hips. waist. pelvis. love.
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