Gabriela Ariana is a Chilean performance artist, choreographer, dancer, singer, writer and a ritual bearer. For the last 20 years she has done artistic research and work about the state of nature, human-nature, nature’s knowledge and the raising of its awareness, of nature’s destruction-birthing dynamics, about human origins, cellular knowledge, embryology and cosmology, among others.
Her art practice unite dance, voice work, music, dreamwork, trance, poetry, lament-singing and an ecosomatic practice that she has developed during the last 20 years.
As an artist she creates experiential spaces where the audience can be an active participant.
Her work is the act of rising up the hidden, the unseen, the untamed, the non-colonized, the timeless through acts that reveals the contradiction between nature/humane and the structures of society. She offers an space from where collective experience is born.
The body is a land in this land of Earth. There is the land that we can see and the unseen land that cannot be understood in the frame of scientific ”logic”, it’s not measurable, it’s not comparable, or possible to prove, it is not controllable, it can only be experienced, it can only be embody through the awareness of the cells and, if we embrace it just long enough to notice it, it may rise up us a poetry, as a song, as dance, as art.
Gabriela Ariana, 2012
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