DIE KRIEGERIN
by La Comunera
Enjoy the photo documentation made by Carlos Collado, during the presentation of my dance solo DIE KRIEGERIN, the past 17th of May on the context of KOMMENSALITÄT at @CordilleraBerlin
RESEARCH • OPEN SHARING
Showing fragments of my research project OPAL , that I have been developing during the last weeks, together with the performer Ante Pavić. The sharing will take place, on the frame of the next Open Performance Series, on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of July at CordilleraBerlin. It would be lovely to see you around!
“El canto quiere ser luz.
En lo oscuro el canto tiene
hilos de fósforo y luna.
La luz no sabe qué quiere.
En sus límites de ópalo,
se encuentra ella misma,
y vuelve.”
“The song wants to be light.
In the dark the song has
threads of phosphorus and moon.
Light does not know what it wants.
In its opal limits,
it finds itself,
and returns.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
Concept/Direction: Silvia Ospina; Creation/Performance: Ante Pavić & Silvia Ospina // Konzept/Regie: Silvia Ospina; Kreation/Performance: Ante Pavić & Silvia Ospina
KOMMENSALITÄT
Joining this amazing event at @CordilleraBerlin the next Saturday 17th of May. KOMMENSALITÄT, in collaboration with Berlin based International artists & Torhaus Koch Kollektiv. This encounters is proposed as a social and artistic gathering that, in an intimate and communal atmosphere, will allow us to prepare an olla común – common pot, in a unique blend of culinary delight, surrounded by diverse artistic experiences, of short duration. While cooking together, KOMMENSALITÄT offers a programme, focusing on the creations of artists from the global south, underlining their perspectives, on the concepts of territory, ancestry, syncretism, cultural heritage, plural versions of history and vulnerability. On this frame I’m glad to present La Comunera, a dance project which performs dance as a pure element of social enjoyment, to awake ancestral traces, in the cadence of the landscapes of Andean music.
SPRING PERFORMANCE
photo: Carlos Collado
Extremely glad to present my solo ANUNCIA EN EL PEDREGAL the next 19th of April on the frame of I’M A UTERUS >< PROCREATORS & WARRIORS IN RESISTANCE at CORDILLERA Berlin. It is a pleasure for me to share this work, which continues to grow and expand dimensions of stories yet to be shared, and which is nurtured through experiences, certainties, disclosures and now the spring.
Looking forward to see you there, to have a communion through dance & together.
ANDENTANZ BERLIN
Coming In APRIL 2025
A transdisciplinary performance practice on the narratives, landscapes and music of the mountainous region of Abya Yala. Sign up for detailed info here!
#laoscuridadbailable #impro #imprographie
ANUNCIA EN EL PEDREGAL
Coming on December 14th on the frame of BRUMANSIA at CordilleraBerlin
SILVIA OSPINAS VISION FÜR CORDILLERA BERLIN
An interview with Maulbeerblatt Berlin about: Inklusive Kunstpraxis aus dem Globalen Süden. Click on the picture to see the full interview!
Un/gleich/zeitig – Jahreskonferenz by the Performing Arts Programm Berlin
Join me at the – Un/gleich/zeitig – Jahreskonferenz by the Performing Arts Programm Berlin. I will give a talk on the work that I and my colleagues from Die Körpergemeinschaft e.V. have been developing In the field of performing arts at the space CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien in Berlin-Oberschöneweide.
19.11.24, 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr. Klosterstraße 44, 10179 Berlin
PIANTO TREMA CANTO
I’m glad to perform the next 12th of October in @CordilleraBerlin, on the frame of RELICARIOS ∫ STERBEN NOCH NICHT GANZ, 3 weekends dedicated to dance & performance pieces that takes transmutation, memory and disembodyness from different perspectives as the central axis of their narrative. I will present my latest and freshest work pianto trema canto, a dance offering on possessions and processions.
TANZMESSE NRW
Joining the Tanzmessenrw 2024. Together with LAFT Berlin I will participate on the new edition of this event, taking place in Düsseldorf from the 28th to the 31th of August. The international dance fair nrw is organised by nrw landesbuero tanz and is the largest professional meeting for contemporary dance. As a forum for exchange, knowledge transfer and networking, the dance fair is an important meeting place for international dance professionals. The up to 2,000 international exhibitors and visitors come together every two years at the end of August in Düsseldorf and present a broad spectrum of aesthetic expressions and artistic practices.
DIE KLAGE DES KONDORS
Die Klage des Kondors coming next 13th of July at @CordilleraBerlin on the frame of •••collisions over the braves canyon••• | #WatchMeDance
#WatchMeDance
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LA#COMUNERA
La#Comunera joined the last evening at the Wilhelmine Tanzsalon the past 8th of June in @CordilleraBerlin, accompanying the rhythms created by the musical ensemble INTIYAKU. La#Comunera offered her dance on that encounter, awakening its ancestral traces in cadence with the landscapes of Andean music.
CAMPAIGN 2024
I am glad to be part of the WATCH ME DANCE 2024 campaign in Berlin. Join us at the exhibition opening in the Uferstudios Hof, the next 4th of June at 18.00. All dancers and performers participating in the campaign together with the production team from Büro Otto Sauhaus and Tanzbüro Berlin, will be present to celebrate with you the plurality of the Berlin dance scene.
Backstage photo by Katja Strempel
*** Opening Watch Me Dance: 4.6.2024, 18.00 (Uferstudios Hof, Uferstr. 23, 13357 Berlin), immediately afterwards, the TanzRaumBerlin network, Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V. and Tanzbüro Berlin invite you to a cultural-political discussion on the current situation and future of dance in Berlin. (Uferstudios Heizhaus) *** #watchmedance
STELLAR FLUVIAL in Berlin
The next Saturday 13th April, I will be sharing my film STELLAR FLUVIAL at the Filmclub KlinkerLUX at CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien.
It is always a pleasure to present this work, which offered me and the artistic team the opportunity to explore unpredictable narratives, and simultaneously gave us the opportunity to build a creative bridge between my hometown Bucaramanga and Berlin. If you are around come and join the screening starting at 18h and the conversation right after the projection.
DIE KLAGE DES KONDORS
On Saturday 16th of December I will be sharing a fragment of my work in progress DIE KLAGE DES KONDORS at CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien.
Saturday 16.12.2023 | from 17h @CordilleraBerlin
The presentation will take place on the frame of #nievesperpetuasperpetualsnows, a midwinter encounter proposed by CORDILLERA Berlin, with a programme of selected live-performances, live music and audiovisual works by Berlin based artists that have a deep connection to Latinamerica and the Andean geographies. CORDILLERA Berlin brings a high mountain chains and build an imaginary bridge that crosses plural migrant experiences: Perpetual snows as vulnerable landscapes inspire the artistic interventions reflecting on life and death, cold and heat, body and planet, singularity and collectivity.
CRÓNICAS DE CUMBRE PARDA Project in collaboration with the EMA Bucaramanga, Colombia
CRÓNICAS DE CUMBRE PARDA is a dance piece designed for crossing spaces, in Bucaramanga, through an experience of collective transdisciplinary creation, with methodologies of exploration, action and exchange, in public and private space. The proposal is developed with students linked to the Laboratorio Experimental Cuerpo y Escena of the Escuela Municipal de Artes de Bucaramanga, and is executed under the direction of Silvia Ospina, together with a professional artistic team from the city of Bucaramanga.
Join us!
Thursday 27th July
3pm & 4 pm Parque Santander
Friday 28th July
4pm, 5pm & 6 pm Teatro Santander de Bucaramanga
With the support of BerlinGlobal-Kulturaustausch, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Körper&Medium and CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien.
INTERVIEW @CordilleraBerlin
#Repost @Radialsystem_berlin #collaboration #october2022
CORDILLERA offers spaces for the performing arts and focuses on the interaction with audiovisual media as well as the exploration of new experimental formats. @Radialsystem_berlin spoke with Oktavia Vöhringer and Silvia Ospina from CORDILLERA about their project space and collaboration.
ANDEAN DANCE ARCHIVES
chasing traces • dislocated memories
I’m glad to launch and be part of the team presenting this screening-archives series at @CordilleraBerlin, which offers an overview of dance created in the Andean region, in Latin America (better known as Abya Yala).
The screenings are intended as a research project that aims to map different dances and subjects created by artists born and lived by the particularities of these landscapes. The idea is to bring visibility to a history of dance that is diverse in its subjects and approaches, including plural perspectives about the body, the role of dance, and the expression of a continuous cultural exchange.
Through this screening, which starts on April 29 as part of the celebration of the International Dance Day, we are beginning a new focus on our work at @CordilleraBerlin; We will be collecting materials which will be open to the public in Berlin in the form of a monthly video projection series.
Join us for this new and exciting meetings!
A NEW YEAR
Thank you 2022. Welcome 2023 !
For this transition I want to share with you some images of TODAS LAS SANGRES, a dance of passage; a ritual of transmutation, about our body’s capacity to cohabit with various belief systems and contradictions within itself. May all our fragments and pieces that need harmonisation come together in this new year. May we ground our journeys, encounters, experiences, expand our expression, relationships and remain rooted, vulnerable and joyful here.
Choreography & Performance: Silvia Ospina; Light design & Sound Concept: Catalna Fernández; Music: George Frederic Händel – Suite No.4 forHarpsichord In D Minor IV Sarabande. Harpsichord: Olivier Baumont. Michael Rauter – Klangbox III. Geist beruhigen: III. Dwayne; General Assistance: Maria Sonia Casadiego; Production Management: Andrés Rodriguez “Trucha”; Technical Direction: Richard Gomez.
WILDE FROST
The next Saturday 17th of December I will have the pleasure to share the research-performance-project WILDE FROST, at the evening performance Unfold to the sparkling Forest at CORDILLERA Raum für Körper und Utopien. Detailed schedule coming soon!
At the same evening, I will be sharing the video material compilation ∞primitive concerns about transcendence, which together with WILDE FROST are conceived and created on the frame of DISEMBODY CEREMONIES OF ABSENCE project, supported by Rechercheförderung, Fonds Darstellende Künste/ Neu Start Kultur.
RESEARCH PROJECT
I’m glad to start my new research project DISEMBODY ~ ceremonies of absence, thanks to the support of Recherche Förderung FONDS DAKU 2022 #takeheart. More infos about this project coming soon!
Next station: BUCARAMANGA
The dance film STELLAR FLUVIAL & and the dance solo TODAS LAS SANGRES having a Premier for the stage in this occasion, will be presented at Teatro Santander de Bucaramanga, the next 16th April at 17:00, on the frame of an homage to the Dancer, Choreographer and Dance-Master-Teacher Sonia Arias.
The body, movement and music come together in the solo performance TODAS LAS SANGRES to create a dance for a transmutation; Originated from the idea of conciliation between opposites, this solo dedicated to Sonia Arias, express about the body’s ability and necessity, to cohabit with various belief systems within itself; TODAS LAS SANGRES is also the title of a novel by Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, whose life and literary expression provides a great inspiration for creating this dance.
STELLAR FLUVIAL is a dance film, where the space defines the body, disciplines it, and at the same time offers it the freedom to think of itself in a new way. The interior/exterior space, the re-signification of the landscape, the crossed time, are some of the concepts that move within the film and create a re-connection with the viewer’s imagination.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Antonio Stella & Silvia Ospina
Residence at CORDILLERA Berlin.
February 2022
TEACHING ON JANUARY
After an energetic break, I have the pleasure to conduct the first training of this year at @CordilleraBerlin
EXPANDED MOVEMENT
Open to performers, dancers and actors!
Tuesday & Thursday, from 10:00 to 11:30
RESEARCH PROJECT
DEUIL ~ Mourning Space
Together with the singer Nicolás Lartaun and the dancer/performer Oktavia Zoe Vöhringer, we dive in a 10 days exploration, lead by the urgency to create a frame and a point of attention around the ideas of farewell and pain; How and when we manage to build a space for it, to let it incarnated and transmute?
Work in progress – Showing on Saturday 30.10., 17h @CordilleraBerlin
NEW STAGE PIECE
Premiere 8.10 at Ballhaus Naunynstraße
ECHOES OF THE STONES An invitation to step out of the familiar structure, to go in search of the old and new, circular collaborations.
The dancer and choreographer Silvia Ospina has teamed up with the narrator Aliza Yanez, the musician and composer Biliana Voutchkova and the video artist Claire Fristot to create their own artistic cosmos from their experiences. Because it takes living memories for a tomorrow; it takes a dreamlike designing for a meaningful yesterday. Counter-designs. Development arises from the circle.
A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH, supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds
STELLAR FLUVIAL on MAGMA
Extremely excited about the new showing of the film STELLAR FLUVIAL on the context of MAGMA Translokales Performance Treffen
The FilmWeb will be for the first time presented as projection and on the full analog garden of @cordilleraberlin
STELLAR FLUVIAL is a translocal production made in the middle of the pandemic, between artists located in Berlin and Bucaramanga. The digital space, sound and music crossed virtually to meet our bodies, to create this audiovisual momentum together.
Saturday. 18.9 at 19:00 @cordilleraberlin | To visit : 3G
MAGMA Translokales Performance-Treffen
Me and my colleagues from Die Körpergemeinschaft e.V are extremely happy to announce the first venue at our beautiful @CordilleraBerlin space.
After a year of continuous work under pandemic conditions, we are overjoyed to receive you in Berlin-Oberschöneweide with MAGMA translokales Performance-Treffen from September 3 to October 31, 2021.
In and around the studio C O R D I L L E R A Raum für Körper und Utopien, Die Körpergemeinschaft presents artistic works developed by locally anchored and internationally active artists of our network. The transdisciplinary search for lived utopias for a future in the diversity of perspectives on DANCE is common to all performances.
REMEMBRANCES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
RITUAL DE POCHE
A summer encounter in Palermo, Sicily
PREMIERE
Register to get the link for the Live streaming!
STELLAR FLUVIAL
by Silvia Ospina
Online Premiere on 13.11.20
PLANTING A SEED IN LOCAL BERLIN
I’m happy to present a new space for the body and the utopias in Berlin
C O R D I L L E R A ~ Raum für Körper und Utopien.
A project by Die Körpergemeinschaft
Space on process! Keep posted for news and updates
LA DANZA ES RITUAL
To celebrate the World Dance Day we present today, the first part of ORBITA Trilogy, a transdisciplinary composition of 3 parts created for an specific space, in Bucaramanga, Colombia at the beginning of this year. Reunited under the concept of ORBITA: tension and structure as weave, the performance is the result of an experiment, that explores on temporary dialogues and new ways of collaboration between the artists.
EPHEMERES MONUMENT
joins a festival for contemporary moving images
We are happy to announce that our film EPHEMERES MONUMENT, a collective creation made between young new Berliners and the ensemble of artists DIE KÖRPERGEMEINSCHAFT, is joining this week the festival for contemporary moving images Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, that will take place in Paris from February 25t to March 1, 2020. If you are around come and take a look to our work!
UNA ARTESANIA TRANDISCIPLINAR
A new performance created in Bucaramanga, Colombia!
SCREENING in BUCARAMANGA
For the first time we will show the film “EPHEMERES MONUMENT” in Bucaramanga. Come and join !
Check here an interview in spanish to know more about the process of this film and project.
AU COEUR DE PANTIN
On February 2019, we had the opportunity to share our film EPHEMERES MONUMENT at café “Pas Si Loin” an association that animates a space for cultural encounters at Quatre-Chemins de Pantin, Paris, which goal is to create social bonds and foster cooperations between neighbourhood actors, at the same time that propose different types of artistic and every day life activities. Thanks to Kathalin Patkai for the invitation and Pilar Jaramillo for make it possible. We loved to be here!
DANCE & DIVERSITY
Sharing some thoughts about dance and diversity on the November edition of TanzRaumBerlin.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
I’m very happy to share the teaser of KONTAKTRAUM project!
Thanks to María José Román for this beautiful video, a short documentation of the project we did during the last winter.
The video images are moving together with the great music of Edson Velandia, that accompanied us too with his music during our cold days and meetings with the young’s in Berlin.
AN AUDIOVISUAL INTERVENTION
Free entrance! Come and join us!
For the summer semester, we got the opportunity to develop a new edition of KONTAKTRAUM, a cultural education project with young’s from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Poland, Gambia & Eritrea. During this semester we have been working in the creation of an audio-visual product that we will share with the public.
Thursday 28th June. MOVIEMENTO Kino Berlin Kreuzberg
Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin
KONTAKTRAUM
A project with a great ensemble of youngs from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran & Eritrea! The winter edition happened from november 2017 until march 2018.
SMOKE LAND in Köln
SMOKE LAND in Köln
At “Archipiélago”, on the context of -Post-Konflikt Kolumbien – Symposium, at KHM. Glasmoog, 08.02. – 03.03.2018
See you in Köln!
SMOKE LAND es una creación escénica interpretada y dirigida por Silvia Ospina. La obra se arraiga en el paisaje del departamento de Santander, y se relaciona con el conflicto, generado por la tenencia de la tierra y el ejercicio del poder político.
A NEW CULTURAL EDUCATION PROJECT IN BERLIN
Together with my colleague Oktavia Vöhringer we created on 2017 the cultural education project KONTAKTRAUM, in Berlin.
I’m happy to announce that since October we are working on this project, and we are excited about the process that we will have during the winter. Thanks to our great team, for join us in this adventure.
PERMANENTE BEUNRUHIGUNG VOL. III
An interdisciplinary encounter
It’s a pleasure for me to join the third edition of the “PERMANENTE BEUNRUHIGUNG VOL. III”, to create and share with the local artists Sofia Borges, Isabel Gonzalez Toro and Juliana Piquero.
For two days we will work together in this constellation, to experiment with our relations and the way how we deal with them. The result of this experience will be exposed in a final show for the audience.
Premiere the 28th April at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Do not miss it!! 28. & 29. April 2017 at 20 Uhr
Eintritt 5 € / 3 €
NOMADEN at IN-BETWEEN PERFORMATIVE FILMS_
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in February
Choreocinema: Bewegung im Film
Die Februar ausgabe von In-between Performative Films zeigt Filmarbeiten, die mit performativen und choreografischen Elementen experimentieren.
Im Fokus der Filmreihe In-between Performative Films stehen Künstler*innen, die sich außerhalb patriarchaler, weißer und nationaler Produktions- und Förderungsbedingungen bewegen.
Im Anschluss findet eine Diskussionsrunde mit der Regisseurin und Choreografin Silvia Ospina statt, moderiert von Simon(e) J. Paetau.
13. Februar 2017, 20:00 Uhr
Eintritt 5 € / 3 €
WORK IN PROGRESS
ÓRBITA a new solo performance
SILVIA OSPINA | KÖRPER & MEDIUM 