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Mercedes Flores Mujica | Contemporary 12.01. - 16.01.2026 + 19.01. - 23.01.2026 - Program - Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Mercedes Flores Mujica | Contemporary
12.01. - 16.01.2026 + 19.01. - 23.01.2026

The dancer Maria Mercedes Flores stands on a stage and dynamically stretches one arm upward. Her body is tense, her open mouth reinforcing the expression of energy and presence in the moment of movement.
© Ezequiel Angeloni

Mercedes Flores Mujica | Contemporary
12.01. - 16.01.2026 + 19.01. - 23.01.2026

Through a rhythmical and somatic exercises, we will understand the pelvis as the moving motor of our bodies. Mechanically the pelvis is seen as the centre of our bodies and the key to deal with our weight and its mechanics. Energetically, it is seen and understood as the trigger point for creativity and aliveness. While working with playfulness and a sense of festivity, we will explore different ways of inviting movement to negotiate with weight, to release tensions, strengthen the core, and encourage liveliness while building a sensitivity for collectiveness. The training is structured in a series of both set and improvised movement.

A massive motivation for the development of this practice is the revolt against the colonialised body: negating straight lines and stiff verticality to transform them into curves and animalistic bodies. It also promotes the exploration of pleasure, an enjoyment of own bodies and physicality, empowering ourselves through joy and (dis)comfort.

Infos
  • Language: German or English
  • Duration: 2 weeks
  • Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  • Location: Mousonturm Rehearsal Stage 3 (4th floor)
  • Rehearsal Stage 3 is open from 9:30 a.m.

Costs

  • Single lesson: €6
  • 10-lesson card: €35
  • Free for MA CoDE, MA CuP and BAdance students 
  • Cash payments only
Biography

Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica is a syncretic inter(un)disciplinary Venezuelan dance artist based in Cologne. Questioning cultural hierarchies and knowledge production and reception nowadays, her works explore the intersections between trans- & hyper-culturalism, time/space displacement, and experienced corporealities through the research of folk dances and music. Explorations of auditive, visual, and tactile rhythm allow her to create communication forms to bridge interaction within performers, audience, and space. With empowerment-oriented, pleasure driven body practices, aesthetics of the informal, and collage & superposition as a compositional practice she creates performative ecosystems that bloom on the stage and beyond.