About this campaign
Diana Lara-Rodgers is a fiscally sponsored project of Dancers' Group
Yelkaram: Weaving the Ancestral Body
by Diana Lara in collaboration with Isadora Paz and Gabriel Vallecillo
Yelkaram is a dance and video-mapping performance that focuses on Honduran Lenca indigenous rituals about weaving traditions and nature protection reinterpreted by a group of artists with Honduran heritage. The performers traveled to Lenca indigenous communities and collaborated with Murilpaz, a Lenca women indigenous organization, to exchange somatic explorations and rituals in rivers, mountains, and weaving workshops. The performance is inspired by this experience and explores the connection between touch, movement and ancestry. The piece celebrates the strength of the Lenca women to recover and safeguard their traditions and natural resources in the face of extractivism.
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