We both share a parallel geographical background. Where we come from, the horizon has no form, it is a snake under the earth moving around and creating what we call mountains. We came to realize that their presence constantly shifts and transforms their environment and we carry the same force in our bodies too. We asked ourselves, are we a mountain too? Living in Berlin we felt the absence of mountains. We arrive at a virtual geo-choreography through google earth, ceremonies, foot dances and exercises of memory, grieving a loss and mourning an exploitation.

Kiana Rezvani grew up in Tehran feeling lucky for the presence of mountains in the intensity and density of that city. As a kid she was playing football with the boys in the neighbourhood and besides that, she was dancing alone in her room for herself. Her artistic work is a puzzle made from pixels of her biography and some missing pieces. Like the city she grew up in, she is interested in creating intense emotional and sensational experiences. She is co-founder of amigas and cobracobra collective.

Sharón Mercado Nogales studied dance with the Wayruru Project La Paz and at the BA program at HZT Berlin. She is co-founder of amigas and cobracobra collective. In her work she incorporates autobiographical material that goes through an exercise of memory. With the aim of creating decolonial body practices by setting the knowledge of her ancestors and her current life experience. She constantly seeks to trigger the current cultural spectrum through the body. As part of her research she is currently developing a dance practice called Technocumbia.

[Source: www.ada-studio.de]

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