^{Photographs: The Jaguar and the Snake - Endangered Human Movements Vol. 3 © Marc Domage}

The Jaguar
and the Snake

Endangered Human Movements Vol.3

Artist: Amanda Piña
Country: Austria / Chile / Mexico
Type: Dance / Performance
Year of Creation: 2018

Amanda Piña’s The Jaguar and the Snake is part of the third volume of Endangered Human Movements, a long term project dedicated to dances and cultural practices that have already vanished or are threatened with extinction.

The Jaguar and the Snake inspired by the manyfold beings populating the oral and visual traditions of Amerindian cultures. Based on a deep iconographic research Amanda Piña, Lina Maria Venegas and Yoan Sorin work on embodying beings where the animal, the human and the vegetal meet fuse and transform.

The performance explores how these concepts are understood in Amerindian terms creating a visionary world between ancestral indigenous knowledge and contemporary performance art.

What other forms of relationships are possible between animals, humans and plants?

CREDITS

Artistic Direction & Choreography
Amanda Piña

Stage/Audio/Visual Director
Daniel Zimmermann

Choreographic Research
Amanda Piña
Linda Samaraweerova

Performance
Amanda Piña
Lina Maria Venegas
Yoan Sorin

Painting/Sculpture
Yoan Sorín

Music
Christian Müller

Costume/Stage
Lise Lendais

Light Design
Victor Duran

Choreographic Contribution
Ewa Bankowska
Paula Chaves

Stage Modelling
Ines Kirchengast

Production
nadaproductions.at

Promotion & Touring Producer
Something Great

Co-production
deSingel
STUK

Production Intern
Sophie Eidenberger

Production Management
Angela Vadori (Smart)

Funded by City of Vienna (Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien).

Endangered Human Movements Vol. 3 is co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien, EN KNAP Productions, supported by Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste and funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery – Art and Culture.