Nacer \/ Birth is the staging of a birth, with the wisdom of ancestral knowledge of midwives from the Imbabura region (province of Ecuador). The performance is a form of experimental theater in which rituals, different generations, time and space come together. Inspiring views on birth, motherhood and the role of women in building a community are made visible with insights from the Andes, but also through Western perspectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The script of Nacer\/Birth is based upon personal testimony and is presented with the use of puppetry, video and dance. Humour is used throughout the performance as a way to address the painful and continuous battle between ideologies between westernised and indigenous populations. As a result of the colonial past, homebirth is associated with primitiveness due to deeply embedded prejudices surrounding indigenous culture. The result is that Ecuador now has the highest number of caesarean deliveries in the Americas, not in the least because such medical interventions have become lucrative activities for hospitals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This intimate, ritual performance was created by Corporaci\u00f3n Humor y Vida (Ecuador), in collaboration with Berith Danse of Theater Embassy (NL). Humor y Vida, translated to \u2018Humour and Life\u2019 is composed of a collective of female artists from Ecuador and Colombia who work on the contested borderlands between their two home countries, an area frequently used for illegal crossings and also by guerrilla fighters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Corporaci\u00f3n Humor y Vida [\u2018humor and life\u2019] is composed of women artists from Ecuador and Colombia. They work on the contested borderlands between their two countries, an area frequently used for illegal crossings and also by guerrilla fighters. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHumor y Vida\u201d Corporation has been a cultural organization since 2007 attached to the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For fourteen consecutive years, it has carried out cultural projects with a strong social emphasis, seeking to undertake artistic activities in places in Ecuador that have difficult access to artistic and cultural proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, and as part of her stage work, she conducts permanent research around theater genres: experimental, children's, visual, gestural and clown, making use of \"collective creation\" and the direction of national and international guest artists, who also They have allowed the collective to professionalize, nurture and investigate new trends in contemporary theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main purpose of the Humor and Life Corporation is to strengthen educational and training processes that contribute to the empowerment of social values, human rights and cultural identity in the population, promoting social participation, human development and quality of life, through playful , art and culture.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Corporaci\u00f3n Humor y Vida","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"corporacion-humor-y-vida","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-11-21 15:38:57","post_modified_gmt":"2024-11-21 14:38:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/makers\/corporacion-humor-y-vida\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"maker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"edition":15,"makers_involved":[2777],"also_interesting":""},"programmes":{"2023033020230330":{"13:30:0017:00:00":[{"id":491,"title":"Compilation 5: Nacer\/Birth & Violence, Exile & Physical Theatre","type":"productions","production_count":2,"start_date":"20230330","date":[{"day_name":"Thu","day":"30","month":"March","month_abbrev":"Mar","year":"2023","timestamp":"2023-03-30"}],"time":"13:30 - 17:00"},{"id":492,"title":"Compilation 6: Nacer\/Birth & Creative Responses to Ending Gender-Based Violence","type":"productions","production_count":2,"start_date":"20230330","date":[{"day_name":"Thu","day":"30","month":"March","month_abbrev":"Mar","year":"2023","timestamp":"2023-03-30"}],"time":"13:30 - 17:00"},{"id":1936,"title":"Compilation 7: Crisis & Challenges A dialogue with TO practitioners from 3 Asian Countries & Nacer\/Birth","type":"productions","production_count":2,"start_date":"20230330","date":[{"day_name":"Thu","day":"30","month":"March","month_abbrev":"Mar","year":"2023","timestamp":"2023-03-30"}],"time":"13:30 - 17:00"}]}},"days":["20230330"],"makers":{"2777":"Corporaci\u00f3n Humor y Vida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/production"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/608\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editions?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"festival_production_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival_production_types?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}