KINETIC CINEMA: SHE POEMS
A screening and discussion with Aida Diaz
We are so looking forward to this screening this week! Aida has flown in from Spain to join us for this presentation of her important work. Join us for our last Kinetic Cinema screening at Spectacle for this season.
| Guest artist Aida Colmenero Diaz will show an evening of videodance poems made in collaboration with dancers and choreographers from Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania.
She POEMS is a project created by Aida to pay tribute to African women through poems written on Spanish. They are "video poems" played by African women artists. They are audiovisual works of contemporary dance inspired by poems written in Spanish. SHE POEMS speak about identity of African women and is a defense of the human rights of women. |
THURS, MARCH 12, 2015
7:30PM, $5
124 S. 3RD STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
A�da Colmenero D�az started her career in Cristina Rota Drama School after she received her title in Contemporary Dance in the Real Conservatorio Profesional of Dance "Mariemma" of Madrid. She has created a multidisciplinary approach using different body and dance techniques: Contemporary, theater, Yoga, Taichi, Capoeira, Classical dance, technique "R�o Abierto", Butoh, etc...
The only Spanish artist to obtained the diploma in Acogny technique by Germaine Acogny, at the �cole des Sables, Senegal, A�da is co-directing LANLA a project to expand Acogny technique in a international level. In collaboration with Ecole Des Sables they have created THE MARCH, The First Open international Dance workshop around Germaine Acogny Technique, in Senegal. A�da also created the CYCLE OF MODERN AFRICAN DANCE in Madrid.
A�da has been based between Africa and Spain since 2009. She has developed her educational project "Africa Danza Training Program" in Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Madagascar, Gabon; for dancers, actors, circus people, children and women in special situations.Her choreographic work in Africa includes: "Caf� Toubab" with Alioune Diagne (2009), presented in the Festival Mundial des Arts N�gres; and "Fudu" with Papa Sangon� Vi�ira (2012).
This project is made possible in part with public funds from NYSCA's Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Additional support has been provided by the General Consulate of Spain in New York, the Spanish Embassy in Abuja, NTA Television, Hotel Hilton Abuja, Casa �frica, Goethe-Institut Senegal, Cultura Dakar, the Spanish Embassy in Dakar, the Spanish Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Acci�n Cultural Espa�ola, Sunu Street, Maison A�ssa Dione, Hotel Sokhamon, Time2Dance, MUDA �frica, Nafasi Art Space, and Asociaci�n Yakart.
