CONTEXTOS

Through a collaborative creative process, guided by choreographers Alex May and Gabriel Galíndez Cruz, the performers embark on a profound quest: getting to know themselves, exploring, and inhabiting the body as a territory of memory and transformation.


The starting point is a shared question: How do people's environments and personal histories influence the way they inhabit their bodies? From this reflection, a piece emerges in which each dancer contributes their own context, their own history, and their individual understanding of dance.

The work is embedded in the bailes cantados, sung dances, of the Afro-Colombian Caribbean – a vibrant cultural heritage that flows through the bodies, connecting them to their roots and setting the pulse of a narrative that transcends boundaries. This traditional sound world enters into dialogue with contemporary movement, creating an encounter between the present body and the ancestral.

On stage, the bodies explore new ways of being, recognizing imposed structures and letting them go. Dance becomes a space of authentic expressiveness, where every movement communicates and every gesture opens up new possibilities.


In "CONTEXTOS," dance is not just an art form—it is also a path to well-being and self-knowledge. As the performers themselves express it: "Dancing is my peace" and "Speaking heals, but dancing puts your soul back together."


Thus, "CONTEXTOS" is not just a stage piece: it is an act of encounter, listening, and co-creation. A space where differences do not divide, but enrich the shared narrative of who people are when they dance together.


A project that does not seek answers, but opens paths. Where every body is an archive, a mirror, and a future. "I am because we are" – and only together, through dance, can we reinvent ourselves and discover ourselves.


Duration: 55 minutes + 30 minutes of audience discussion