Tinku. Encounter – Confrontations

This performance took place in Gravesend, England, where Pocahontas was buried after she died on a ship that was supposed to bring her back to Virginia, USA. This is a place where the performance encounters and confronts the violence enacted through the fiction, fantasy and imaginaries about her, ignoring and making her real life and violence she had to endure, invisible. The performance includes dancing Tinku, a Bolivian folkloristic dance that is a reference to a ritual practiced in the Potosí region which includes a fighting element between community members in order to reestablish equilibrium with la pacha mama (mother earth). This performance draws from this understanding of violence as something that has to be recognized and can be manifested through dance in order to be transformed something else.

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