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jardín salvaje

2020 - Work in Progress

jardin salvaje is a constant work-in-progress. It is a tool, a practice to be used to think, create, and play with alternative pasts, presents and futures. Observing non-human beings such as animals, but most of all plants, offers an entry point into navigating a web of multi-species relationships. This work aims to trace human interactions with plants and animals. Questioning the nature/culture division.

this work is developing at PASS residency at Snug Harbor 2020.

In collaboration with Mor Mendel, Tatyana Tenembaum

and Joshua Boliver (lights).

proyecto tierra

2017

proyecto tierra was commissioned by the interdisciplinary platform Pliegues y Despliegues in Bogotá, Colombia in collaboration with the FIDCU, The International Contemporary Dance Festival in Montevideo Uruguay.

trenza

2013

"As they braid and unbraid themselves with varying spreads between them, the dance appears to move from charted territory to improvised lifts and shifting duets/solos. There is no strain in their play, no stress over missed opportunities, or ones taken that did not go as expected, though, for the most part, they glide into and out of each other with trust and ease."

-Elise Knodson - Culturebot

Direction & Choreography: rebeca medina

Performers: Carly Czach, Maggie Bennet & Rebeca Medina

silvestres y salvajes

2018

silvestres y salvajes

Creaban un estado común entre los espectadores porque no quedaba más remedio que esperar juntos a que algo sucediera, mirarnos mirar, escucharnos respirar. Ya estaba sucediendo de todo en esa quietud, en los ojos que no podíamos ver de Sofía y de Rebeca, porque estaban hechas ovillos, y en los ojos de Mateo que podíamos ver, pero que permanecían cerrados. Se trataba solo de estar ahí compartiendo el tiempo, la respiración visible e inaudible contra la pared. Ese fue el primer momento extenso para llegar, para contemplar a cada uno fundiéndose con el espacio, haciéndose planta, bicho o fuego.

This work was developed during a residency at Los Funanbulos Theater in Bogotá, Colombia in 2018. In collaboration with Sofia Mejia, Mateo Mejia, Jorge Zárate (sound) and Eduardo Oramas (lights).

paraiso

2015

"Medina’s paradise seems to push against any striving for perfection to acknowledge the messiness in getting there. Paradise is a way to capture an ideal state and, in doing so, reveals how envisioning such a place is a privilege of imagination. Paraíso gives us permission to imagine that place, even if for a brief time. Tara Sheena" - The Brooklyn Rail

Choreography and Direction: rebeca medina

Text: Alex Borinsky

Performers: Carly Czach, Molly Schaffner and Juanita Barrera

Visual Artist: Jodi Connelly

Sound designer: John Stanesco

Lights designer: Fred Hatt

Costumes: Tatyana Tenenbaum

restruccion

2011

"El espectador tiene que atravesar la difusa frontera existente entre el sujeto y el objeto en la obra, entre el contenido de la psique y el cuerpo de la artista y encontrar lo que ahí se puede considerar el móvil de la obra de arte; ese conjunto articulado de formas y conceptos que entrelazados determinan la producción de sentido."

-Alvaro Villalobos - El Cuerpoespin

Direction & Performance: rebeca medina