Showing: Valeria Oviedo
“FEISTY”
Performance / Tanz Talk
© Alejandro Ramos
© Alejandro Ramos
Towards the end of her Body Time Space residency at Radialsystem, Valeria Oviedo will present the current stage of her performance “FEISTY”. In the piece, the Berlin-based Mexican artist and producer explores the origins and powerful effects of conflict through an artistic-experimental engagement with combative and theatrical movements and expressions. The traditional Mexican version of ‘Wrestling Lucha Libre’, which combines martial, acrobatic and performative elements, serves as a foil for examining fights shaped by the body. Humour and playfulness, as well as resistance and friction, play particularly important roles for the artist.
Together with other performers, with musician Emme Moises, and in exchange with her chosen dialogue partners, the artist also investigates concepts and techniques of mindfulness and meditation to better understand the state of the body and mind in moments of conflict. Her work is based on the conviction that conflicts need to be considered both from the inside and the outside – along the lines of “Otherness”.
Cast
Artistic direction
Valeria Oviedo
Performance
Aleksandra Petrushevska
Elvan Tekin
Pamela Moraga
Dialog partners
Yotam Peled
Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Lucha Libre Movement Coaches
Orlando Silva
Liss
Music and composition
Emme Moises
Costume design
Maria Ignacia Navarro
Biographien
Valeria Oviedo is an interdisciplinary artist and producer from Tijuana, Mexico. Her work focuses on choreography, media art and performance and deals with themes such as borders, origins, the role of women as well as mourning and death. Through her works, she always tries to create a connection with the audience – regardless of whether they have an existing relationship with art or not. Since 2020, Valeria Oviedo has been working and living in Berlin, where she offers guided meditations and mindful movement exercises. Most recently, she developed the production “Los Malos Hábitos” as part of the Research Residency at ada Studio für zeitgenössischen Tanz in Berlin.
Programme
Afterwards
Artist Talk with Valeria Oviedo & Team
Credits
The residency program is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Media partnerships: taz – die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, Rausgegangen, The Berliner.
Towards the end of her Body Time Space residency at Radialsystem, Valeria Oviedo will present the current stage of her performance “FEISTY”. In the piece, the Berlin-based Mexican artist and producer explores the origins and powerful effects of conflict through an artistic-experimental engagement with combative and theatrical movements and expressions. The traditional Mexican version of ‘Wrestling Lucha Libre’, which combines martial, acrobatic and performative elements, serves as a foil for examining fights shaped by the body. Humour and playfulness, as well as resistance and friction, play particularly important roles for the artist.
Together with other performers, with musician Emme Moises, and in exchange with her chosen dialogue partners, the artist also investigates concepts and techniques of mindfulness and meditation to better understand the state of the body and mind in moments of conflict. Her work is based on the conviction that conflicts need to be considered both from the inside and the outside – along the lines of “Otherness”.
Cast
Artistic direction
Valeria Oviedo
Performance
Aleksandra Petrushevska
Elvan Tekin
Pamela Moraga
Dialog partners
Yotam Peled
Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Lucha Libre Movement Coaches
Orlando Silva
Liss
Music and composition
Emme Moises
Costume design
Maria Ignacia Navarro
Biographies
Valeria Oviedo is an interdisciplinary artist and producer from Tijuana, Mexico. Her work focuses on choreography, media art and performance and deals with themes such as borders, origins, the role of women as well as mourning and death. Through her works, she always tries to create a connection with the audience – regardless of whether they have an existing relationship with art or not. Since 2020, Valeria Oviedo has been working and living in Berlin, where she offers guided meditations and mindful movement exercises. Most recently, she developed the production “Los Malos Hábitos” as part of the Research Residency at ada Studio für zeitgenössischen Tanz in Berlin.
