PuSh Festival: BOGOTÁ

Venue: Vancouver Playhouse

PuSh Festival with New Works Dance presents BOGOTÁ by Andrea Peña

Visceral, transgressive and magnetic, BOGOTÁ constructs a brutalist landscape out of choreography inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage. With striking intensity, nine performers chronicle transformations between chaos and rebirth, incarnating the tensions of ever unfolding and turbulent histories.

Offering a raw, physical experience of mutation and ultimately resurrection, BOGOTÁ delves into inherited mythologies in order to consider how origins are embodied, and mortality is expressed through the endless cycles of existence and death.

This powerful work employs movement as a vehicle for storytelling, embarking on an esoteric journey through a universe charged with magic realism. It uncovers passageways to transcendence, honoring the rebellion of deviant bodies and paying tribute to resilience within the post-colonial era.

Andrea Peña & Artists

Peña’s approach is known for its difficult choreography as a highly intricate, vulnerable and somatic raw physicality that engages in deep encounters between the physical body and a highly conceptual research approach. With a background in industrial design her work borrows from visual art practices and spatial qualities of creative making, questioning the body as a material which exists in a relationship to space and time.