Matria – Motherland explores Malambo, the resistance dance of the gauchos, that combines the step dance – “zapateo” – juxtaposed with rhythmic movements driven by the Bombo Legüero, an Argentine drum. It emerged during the conquest of Wallmapu – traditional territory of the Mapuche people – known today as Patagonia, Argentina, mainly as a solo competition between men. Matria – Motherland dismantles the disciplinary and patriarchal aspect of the style and moves towards a dance of rebellion. In a cross between traditional and contemporary dance, it challenges the standard Western aesthetic to create a space for other ontologies of dance and imagine a history not represented in colonial and hegemonic narratives.

ROCIO MARANO is an Argentinian-Spanish dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. In addition to her independent dance training, she studied at the Escola Superior d’Art i Disseny de les Illes Balears (Spain). She completed a Master’s degree in Choreography at the Inter-University Dance Centre HZT in Berlin. She was awarded the DAAD scholarship (2020) and is the recipient of the Distanzen scholarship (Neustart Kultur 2021, 2022), during which she explored the Malambo, the traditional Argentinian dance of the Gauchos, resulting in the piece Matria – Motherland and TransMatria. Rocio Marano is attracted by movement generated in the popular terrain of the collective, whose norms extend beyond contemporary dance. She has worked with an eclectic range of practices such as Krump, Malambo, interspecies somatic research (Barbara Berti) and yawning.
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