Yolanda Morales

I WANT TO BE A SWAMP

Mexican choreographer Yolanda Morales and her international team imagine a natural scenario on stage and become masters of ceremony. In the form of memories, they celebrate a northern German moor landscape, an ecosystem threatened by destruction. Memorable colors, smells, sounds, image details and microforms become physical, fluid testimonies of this dying landscape. With songs, choral voices, electronic sounds and shamanic-like repetitions, the dancers conjure up the composing forces of the moor and dance a homage to the transformative powers of nature.

_{Choreography, artistic direction, dance: Yolanda Morales |
Co-choreography, dance: Sakshi Jain, Beatriz Silva Aranda, Anand Dhanakoti, Joana Kern | Music: Dong Zhou | Dramaturgy: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr | Set design: Hanna Lenz | Costume design: Lea Theres Lahr-Thiele | Lighting design: Lars Kracht | Production management: Katja Kruglikova / PK3000 | Press and public relations: STÜCKLIESEL (Hark Empen) |
Vocal Sound Design: Lisa Florentine Schmalz, Chris Lüers | Vocal Training Support: Morin Gonzalez | Dramaturgy Internship: Carlotta Ortinger | Assistant: Svea Kruse | Lighting: Lars Rubarth, Magnus Hamacher, Holger Schegum | Sound Engineering: David Babbel | Stage Management: Marian Regdosz}

Yolanda Morales

(Hamburg), born in Chiapas Mexico, is a choreographer, dancer and performer. She trained in dance in Mexico and completed a Master's degree in Performance Studies in Hamburg. Her projects in Hamburg have been developed with K3, Lichthof Theater and MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum, among others. In her choreographic works she deals with imaginative bodies in utopian and dystopian spaces that are interwoven with current political and social realities. Her productions have been invited to HundertPro Festival at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, OUTNOW! Bremen, EPICENTRO in Oaxaca (Mexico), IAPAR Festival in India and Hauptsache Frei in Hamburg.
Inspired by the worldview of the Amerindian peoples in relation to nature Yolanda will research how to remember still existing landscapes that are in danger of extinction. She will explore and celebrate a North German moorland landscape, an ecosystem threatened by destruction. There she remembers herself as a being with multiple subjectivities, able to relate with other elements on nature.

^{(Status: 2023)}

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