How does history repeat itself through new methods of colonialism, how can we help Europeans to de-colonize their souls? What about the disabled, the chronically ill? Do those artists have a voice here?
With this project I wanted – conceptually – to work in the intersection between disabilities and colonialism, and how the possibilities offered according to someone´s origin/homeland are different. Speaking as someone from the Global South – for instance, almost all (the few) literature existent about this intersection comes from authors from the Global North – in performing arts it´s equally rare. But also, subjectively speaking, I wanted to show that colonialism never stopped, if we see it as a force influencing not only a person´s life opportunities but as a subjective method to influence how we see the world. If it influences how we see the world, it influences our bodies – in this project, our dancing bodies. And a sick body from Latin America had other possibilities – and ways of perceiving illness – than a European one.