L’Antech: Wine yu Bottom. Lift up yu Chest and Pointe yu Tuoz

In English

HKW hosts a movement lecture by legendary choreographer, dance pedagogue, and scholar L’Antoinette Stines. Conscious of the importance for people of colour to create their own language and canons outside the European one, her L’Antech, short for L'Anyah CARIMOD (Anglo-Caribbean Modern Contemporary) Technique, is an effort to comprise the range of ways that bodies that inhabit the archipelago move and the dance cultures they carry. Taking the body as a library that stores histories, her methodology is a result of creolization, using what she calls ‘synerbridging’ (a combining of the words ‘synergy’ and ‘bridging’) between the dance practices that emerge from kumina, bruckins, nyabinghi, tambu, yanvalou, piquet, arara, bambosche, various European classical lines, and daaance'all (dancehall). With a long trajectory of works that promote female and local cultural empowerment, Stines formulates in L’Antech the retained movements that came across the ocean, the ancestral memories of African people, without excluding the European, Asian, and Indigenous contributions present in CARIMOD. 

With the support of assistant demonstrator Jessica Shaw and drummer Kemoy Outar.

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 03/August/2024 14:00
• Venue Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• Address John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten