Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament

Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament is a new live performance works about belonging, land and the preservation of traditions. Drawing on twelve years of community-based fieldwork, this polylingual and multidisciplinary dance and theatre production offers timely insight into the complex lived realities of Venezuela’s cacao farmers. Creator, Director and Choreographer Victoria Mata roots her vocabulary and aesthetics in the tensions between remembering and forgetting, and in a dynamic dialogue between Afro-Venezuelan genres and contemporary expressions of dance and music.

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This is an outdoor, walk-up performance – there are no tickets needed to attend – just show up at Mel Lastman Square, Upper Rose Garden (5100 Yonge St)  – a few steps south of the North York Centre Subway.

Presented with Aluna Theatre and the RUTAS 2022 International Festival and in partnership with TO Live, this dance theatre production is a festive outdoor live performance and will be a part of ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art.

http://cacaolament.ca/

September 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM
September 23, 2022 at 8:00 PM
September 24, 2022 at 8:00 PM
September 25, 2022 at 8:00 PM

“The production is dedicaded to “las cacaoteras y los libros vivientes” – the women cacao farmers and the elders who shape and preserve our cultures, our traditions, our songs and dances.” – Victoria Mata; 

“Listen closely, touch this earth. This is you. You are from here. Don’t you ever forget that. Your mother would have never wanted you to leave this place. Remember that. Todo esto eres tu. You carry the wisdom of each cacao pod on this land in your veins.” – Hortencia

About the artist

@victoriamataproductions (IG) @Cacao_A_Venezuelan Lament (FB)