Rhythm Recipes with Carne Viva Dance Theatre

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March 21, 2025
11:10AM - 12:15PM
Sullivant Hall 290, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

Date Range
2025-03-21 11:10:00 2025-03-21 12:15:00 Rhythm Recipes with Carne Viva Dance Theatre This workshop will explore how everyday kitchen items, like pots and pans, become powerful instruments of resistance and protest, especially in Latin American cultures. Participants will learn about the "cacerolazo"—the act of banging pots and pans to express dissent—and its significance in movements for social and political change. Through rhythmic exercises, participants will use these items to create sound, embodying the collective spirit of protest. The workshop will also incorporate movement, allowing participants to physically express the energy of resistance. Ultimately, this experience will highlight how music, rhythm, and movement serve as constant sources of joy, unity, and cultural pride within the Latinx community, even in the most challenging times.Carne Viva Dance Theatre is a vibrant and flavorful collective based in Lenape Land and Miami, composed of artivists de aqui y de allá. They are committed to culture as liberation and use their bodies as an act of rebellion. The company creates intimate, erotic, and playful works that honor their collective stories and celebrate their identities. They merge their Afro-Cuban influences, social dance, and modern improvisational practices to cultivate a compelling kaleidoscope of rhythm, movement, and storytelling. Through dance, theatre, text, and original sounds, they aim to pull audiences into the next dimension, awakening them to new experiences.Carne Viva has received the BIPOC New Work Tracks (2022) for the Cannonball Festival, AIR at Mascher Space Cooperative, and MOtiVE Brooklyn. The company was a guest performing artist at the Artistry In Rhythm Dance Conference at Miami Dade College (2022-2023) and are the first ever Leaps In Bounds company in residence at Miami Dade College. They have showcased their most recent work at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, and Judson Memorial Church for Movement Research. Carne Viva was also presented at the Latinx Movement Festival in Washington, D.C., and Miami Dance Hub's "Miami Dances!" (2024). They are the 2024 MAP Fund grantees for their current project, Dame La Receta!This event is funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant and the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Grant, with support from The Ohio State University Department of Dance, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Latinx Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies.  Sullivant Hall 290, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210 America/New_York public

This workshop will explore how everyday kitchen items, like pots and pans, become powerful instruments of resistance and protest, especially in Latin American cultures. Participants will learn about the "cacerolazo"—the act of banging pots and pans to express dissent—and its significance in movements for social and political change. Through rhythmic exercises, participants will use these items to create sound, embodying the collective spirit of protest. The workshop will also incorporate movement, allowing participants to physically express the energy of resistance. Ultimately, this experience will highlight how music, rhythm, and movement serve as constant sources of joy, unity, and cultural pride within the Latinx community, even in the most challenging times.

Carne Viva Dance Theatre is a vibrant and flavorful collective based in Lenape Land and Miami, composed of artivists de aqui y de allá. They are committed to culture as liberation and use their bodies as an act of rebellion. The company creates intimate, erotic, and playful works that honor their collective stories and celebrate their identities. They merge their Afro-Cuban influences, social dance, and modern improvisational practices to cultivate a compelling kaleidoscope of rhythm, movement, and storytelling. Through dance, theatre, text, and original sounds, they aim to pull audiences into the next dimension, awakening them to new experiences.

Carne Viva has received the BIPOC New Work Tracks (2022) for the Cannonball Festival, AIR at Mascher Space Cooperative, and MOtiVE Brooklyn. The company was a guest performing artist at the Artistry In Rhythm Dance Conference at Miami Dade College (2022-2023) and are the first ever Leaps In Bounds company in residence at Miami Dade College. They have showcased their most recent work at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, and Judson Memorial Church for Movement Research. Carne Viva was also presented at the Latinx Movement Festival in Washington, D.C., and Miami Dance Hub's "Miami Dances!" (2024). They are the 2024 MAP Fund grantees for their current project, Dame La Receta!

This event is funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant and the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Grant, with support from The Ohio State University Department of Dance, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Latinx Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies.