Cacao: Un Lamento Venezolano

La historia de dos primas- una que vive en Toronto y la otra, una agricultura de cacao en un pueblo en Venezuela–que se reencuentran durante la celebración de San Juan.  Esta pieza es una confluencia de diferentes géneros de danza que incluyen tradiciones  Afro-Venezolanas y danza contemporánea canadiense, como una forma de rendirle honor a la gran labor de amor y sudor de aquellos sabedores y cultoras de las comunidades que cultivan el cacao en Venezuela.

Victoria Mata is a Toronto-based Canadian-Venezuelan dance artist, choreographer, director, and activist. In each of these, she combines an evolving feminism with her passion for expressive arts therapy. Mata’s choreography and her personal dance expression generate a dialogue between performance and embodied cultural memory. Mata’s sensibility to inclusion and the nuances of  border stories is rooted in her eclectic upbringing in Venezuela, France, United States and Canada. Her career was initially sculpted by auto-pedagogical, self-directed training, which was followed by residencies and professional trainings at the Banff Arts Centre, Counter Pulse, African American Art & Culture, Centro de Investigación Coreográfica del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de México, The Biggot Foundation, Ballet Creole, Aluna Theater, Danza Corpus, Danza Fragmentada and Teatro Delle Radici.

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“I dance in response to global systemic barriers, converging contemporary and traditional forms imagining the alternative, our otherness; the unconquered.”
– Victoria Mata