Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica

SOMATIC BOOTY SHAKING

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Somatic Booty Shaking invites movers to negotiate with weight, release tensions, strengthen their core, and find liveliness in their dance. This training understands the pelvis as the moving motor of our bodies. It negates straight lines and stiff verticality to transform them into curves and animalistic bodies. Revolt against the colonised body and challenge your physicality with playfulness by working with rhythm, somatic practices, body and space awareness, performativity, pleasure, and joy.

Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica

is a Venezuelan dance artist based in Cologne. By researching peculiar communication forms, she creates performative ecosystems that bloom on the stage and beyond. In her training she uses Venezuelan folkloric dances to rescue rhythmicality, body knowledge, and festivity values to integrate them in contemporary dance practice.