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A profound journey from injustice to hope, emphasised by the power of the collective act.
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RIECKHOF / SILVA
A collaboration between two Peruvian immigrant artists in the UK. Carolina Rieckhof (costume and prop designer) and Moyra Silva ( director and movement thinker), met in 2023 in London, and came together in their pain and frustration over the injustice of civilians' deaths under a dictatorial government in Peru. The collaboration became a healing process and expanded their art practice, exploring ancestral knowledge from their country. Her collaboration started for SHIFT+SPACE, performing arts residency, at Theatre Deli in November (2023) sharing the work in progress of “Uproar”. Their collaborative art practices keep expanding in 2024, taking part of Migration Festival, with community workshop “Pollera, my story”, and sharing a movement session for “The Playground’ at Rambert Dance studios.
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“Uproar” is a collaborative art-based research projectis that examines the right to protest and the impact of collective action. The project produced by Latin American immigrant women in the UK, aims to highlight the significance of peaceful protests, inspire social justice, and present new strategies for cohesion and resilience through art. The project will be developed through three stages including performance, workshops and short-documentary.
This collaboration became a healing process, enriching Rieckhof-Silva art practice and deepening in their ancestral knowledge. Through this work, they found ways to resist and demand justice, extending its impact beyond performance through community workshops inspired by the research. By integrating indigenous knowledge, they offer a fresh perspective on facing adversity, strengthening a sense of belonging and community. Rieckhof-Silva believes resistance can take many forms, including learning, honoring, and connecting with ancestral wisdom. By creating respectful spaces and sharing our traditions, we cultivate a deeper sense of belonging.
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Three Stages of the "Uproar" Project:
1. Performance:
- Interdisciplinary solo performance exploring the right to protest and the power of collective action.
- Incorporates movement, sound, props, costumes, audience participation, and audiovisual documentation.
- Scheduled on November 15th and 16th at the Voila festival and December 12th at Siobhan Davies Studio.
2. Community Workshops:
- Workshops inspired by the performance research focus on collective sound and the cycle of protest.
- Designed to help the Latin American diaspora in the UK connect with their roots, fostering a sense of belonging and community.
- Aims to create spaces of freedom, care, hope, and joy by bringing people together through movement and sound.
3. Mini-Documentary:
- Captures the performances and workshops as a form of archival documentation.
- Aims to broaden the audience beyond the UK, particularly in Peru and Latin America.
- Seeks to raise international awareness of human rights violations in Peru and inspire global solidarity with social justice movements.
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FIRST STAGE
THE PERFORMANCE
""Uproar" performance honours the Latin American tradition of using music and dance for political expression, it draws inspiration from Peru's ongoing crisis to raise awareness about peaceful protests and foster empathy and solidarity in addressing global social injustice struggles.
"Uproar" debuted as a work-in-progress during the SHIFT+SPACE residency at Theatre Deli in 2023 and will be featured at the multicultural Voila Festival on November 15th and 16th, 2024. The festival, now in its 12th year, showcases panlingual theatre across London, supported by Arts Council England. Additionally, a community performance is scheduled for December 12th at Siobhan Davies Studio, a renowned UK dance institution known for its commitment to artistic and social change. The studio has a strong history of supporting dance research and community projects, including “Su Mano Amiga,” a Latin American dance initiative founded by a local charity in collaboration with Siobhan Davies Studios in 2021.
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performance audience response
‘UPROAR is an unique, personal and exciting piece of work, shedding important light on the political crisis in Peru. Although, the project extends beyond that in bringing collective voices together through movement and incredibly unique costume’.
Esther Hallas
(Theatre Deli London producer)
‘UPROAR is exactly what it has shared with its audience: A journey to understand the chant of life itself and its struggles through the sounds of ancestral Pallares (butter beans) placed on textiles that tell stories in motion. Sometimes slow and sometimes swirling movements as the struggles of the people when they claim justice and visibility’.
Cristina Motta (Peruvian living în UK)
“(the) performance serves as a living archive that transcends conventional storytelling boundaries. It provides audiences with the opportunity to witness the evolution of resistance, while also acknowledging the complexities of identity, heritage, and the ongoing struggle for autonomy.’
Santiago Cardoso
‘Through Our Movements We Are One: ‘Uproar’ and the Memory of Embodied Communal Practices of Resistance"
‘it was a touching performance, different emotions, movements, amazing dance all conveyed by you so well and professionally. Accompany of music, instruments, lights and great costumes, evoked in me various emotions such as grief, anger, fear also hope and the collective power of groups of people. I felt I can identify with performance’s message. Even If I am not from Peru, it made me think deep about facts from history and recent past of my country and I felt the same frustration, anger, persistence’.
Justyna Kostyk (Polish living in the UK)
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SECOND STAGE
THE WORKSHOPS
Creative family workshops
Create and sound your own Limaq bean shakers.
Limaq bean, is a symbol rooted in Peruvian culture, representing fertility, hope, and connection to the earth. In this hands-on workshop, participants will be invited to create their own Limaq bean shakers, blending traditional craftsmanship with personal creativity. Once the shakers are complete, we’ll come together for a short movement/sound exercise.
Design and create your own Limaq Bean Oracle
Explore the mystical world of ancient Peruvian divination, inspired by the sacred Mochica Oracle, this workshop will guide you through the process of crafting a personalized oracle set, infusing it with meaning and symbolism, and finally, using it to explore your own path.
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Movement Workshops
Movement workshop inspired in the ideas of the cycle of protest and collective hope. Using sound props and live music First shared at Playground at Rambert Dance studios in July, 2024.
Upcoming workshop
Siobhand Davies studios (December, 2024)
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THIRD STAGE
SHORT-DOC
By creating a documentary based on our workshops, performances and interviewing participants, members of the audience and activists we hope to engage in a deeper conversation about art, protest and the search for justice.
We believe that we can generate more spaces to show our project and reach more audiences. After our first presentation a member of UCL in the audience wrote an academic essay about Uproar and Latin american resistance:
THROUGH OUR MOVEMENTS WE ARE ONE: UPROAR AND THE MEMORY OF THE EMBODIED COMMUNAL PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE.
(Soon to be published in popmoves.com)
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REFERENCE 1
This short documentary about The Queer Theater Project features scenes, songs, and monologues that highlight queer theater history. We selected it because it combines various archival materials, particularly emphasizing the performative aspects of this theater company. It also serves as a strong example of embracing and showcasing alternative narratives.
REFERENCE 2
The creation of “LASTESIS” unfolded in two parts in Almada: firstly as a workshop for women and gender dissidents, and the second part was the presentation of a public performance in Praça da Liberdade. The performance combines feminist theory and activism with performative arts and music, exposing a scenario sustained by bodies, voices and the experience of the participants.
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Carolina Rieckhof
Moyra Silva
Juliana Ruiz Torres
Silva holds a Master’s in Dance Anthropology and a Bachelor's in Communication Science and Arts.
Her Chinese-Peruvian heritage influences her exploration of art and identity, blending academic research with movement and visual arts. Awarded by the 2023 Economic Stimulus for Cultural and Arts Industries, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norte-Americano, Festival Artes Escenicas Lima, the German Federal Foreign Office, and Goethe-Institut, she is an Erasmus Mundus scholar
(2020-2022) and collaborates with Lenora Lee Dance on Chinatown and Chinese-Peruvian projects.
Rieckhof holds a MA in Costume Design for Performance and a BA in Sculpture. In her practice she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, costume and body to explore the human experience.
Ruiz-Torres is an Interdisciplinary artist researcher. Her training intertwines contemporary dance, somatic principles and performance studies to enquiry how she inhabits the world in relationship with the other bodies and the environments created together.
She holds a BA in Performing arts and a BA in Social Communications from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. She graduated with distinction from the MFA of Dance and Embodied Practice, University of Roehampton, London.
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uproarprojekt@gmail.com