Ana is a Colombian psychologist who focuses on peace-building and finding alternative ways to resolve conflicts due to the violent environment in her home country. She has added Bellydance to her practice, exploring how performing arts can bring diverse people and collectives together. As a master's student in dance anthropology, her final dissertation is focused on the use of the body in building memories during transnational performances within the context of forced displacement.
Ana will be presenting alongside Marita Matar and Anisha Anantpurkat.
'Sick of Periods … let’s talk about cycles'
"Our project aims to reframe the often blood-centric discourses around menstruation and bring attention to wellness through critical discourse around hormones and bodies of all genders. Inspired by feminist and queer activism from our contexts, which are healing from different types of colonialism, we consider spaces of knowledge transmission around periods as heritage sites. By weaving together our historical memory of our cycles, we create a durational, interactive, and site-specific performance, involving narrations and movement from actors and audiences. We would like to use lightning talks as a way to gain input on the movement component of the performance."