Rosa Cisneros is an artist-researcher with a background in dance, sociology and films. She works with Charities and NGOs in the UK and Europe leading several projects aiming to make dance and education accessible to vulnerable groups and ethnic minorities. She works closely with freelance artists developing ethical and equitable standards.
'LifeStrings screen dance work: Pushing the norm and navigating the storm through motherhood.'
"Nixon (2011) and Holterman (2014) define “slow violence” as the importance of environmental and non-physical forms of violence that occur over broad temporal scales. Davies (2022) suggests that there is an intimate connection between concepts of slow violence and structural violence. This performative workshop and exploration reflects on the slow violence that the Roma experience and ways that it is challenged through dance and co-creative projects. The unprecedented ecological crisis is not divorced from the arts and cultural heritage sector, and the screendance work LIFESTRINGS, was guided by the urgency of climate justice and questions about flamenco, Roma identity, Motherhood, trauma and traditions. This performative paper presentation uses screendance work that links into climate justice and maternal narratives, and explores accessibility, inclusion and Flamenco. The film LIFESTRINGS is underpinned in discrimination, cultural trauma and racial justice and will be at the heart of this presentation."