SINP’A_docu opens up the intimate process of creation of SINP’A, in which .DENCUENTRO travels deep into the Andean mountains of Bolivia twice over two years for several weeks. This experience moves and transforms the three dancers, opening reflections about their cultural identity, their values and about their dance.The trained contemporary dance bodies document in movement what they experience there, in order to develop and perform it for the stage.
What do they understand as “documentation with the body”? How did they deal with the different worldviews between cultures? Where do they position themselves in this? The fruitful process of questioning one’s own identity through friction with different worldviews is again extended by .Dencuentro to their audiences. Thus, the live-streamed lecture performance is to be understood as a bridge-building and challenge by addressing two audiences from different cultural worlds.
From the collected documentary material, an audio-visual lecture-performance was created, which is streamed live to both a German-speaking and a Spanish-speaking audience. This further step of the project emerged from the overwhelming interest of the audience to delve deeper into the processes around and behind SINP’A.
The collective’s project is a platform for discussion and exchange of opinions with sociologists, anthropologists, artists and people from the villages who perform the ritual practice of tinku.
.DENCUENTRO is a dance collective Greta co-founded together with Amanda Romero and Constanza Ruiz in 2018. Since then their work diggs into the meeting point between the Andean cultures of South America and the cultural perception from the more western territories of perception.