MOYRA CECILIA SILVA RODRÍGUEZ

Lima, Perú, 2019

Original project by Corpusmedio (Adele Fournet and Moyra Silva),  with co-production support of Centro Cultural de España in Lima. “Limas Utópicas” is a site-specific movement film. The film explores our particular interpretation of “utopia” as a starting point  to defy with dance and movements Lima city’s status quo.

Fifteen Limeñxs– representing a wide variety of ages, occupations and socio-cultural backgrounds–express their visions of utopia using their bodies and group compositions in this site-specific video dance piece.  This video is the final product of a free four-week movement workshop for non-dancers offered at the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima, Peru, led by the multimedia creative duo CorpusMedio (Adele Fournet and Moyra Silva).  Working collectively, we explored how to defy, in small and varied ways, different aspects of the urban status quo in Lima– a city slowly overcoming and redefining a traumatic past with terrorism and public spaces. The video features collective movement and sound compositions created by Fournet and Silva in collaboration with the fifteen workshop participants.

The film has been awarded with the Grand Jury Prize Choreo Dance Film Festival (France, 2022), and has been screened in  Little Stint II produced by W.I.P. Labs a& OddBird Foundation (Delhi- India, 2024), Theatre Deli London (UK, 2022), kNOwBOX dance & Choreomundus Dance Film Festival (online 2022),  Climate Benefit Concert ‘A Lens called Climate’ (online, 2022),  , NOoSHERE NYC Arts Festival We are Nature (US, 2021), 32º Danza Nueva International Festival of Lima (online, 2020), Festival Courts critiques (Lima, 2019) and CCELima (Lima, 2019).

Video protagonists: Otto Castillejo, Ariana Blass, María Alejandra Roca, Melisa Zagastizabal Aldama, Elizabeth Wurst, Edyth Ibarra, Lua Von Carrizales, Margaret Rivas, Omar Cruz, Christian Villegas, Clever Andia, José Luis Elías, María Isabel Rincón, Lisbel Fretel Bernardo, and Ángela Jimenes.

Direction and editing: Adele Fournet and Moyra Silva

Editing and music composition: Adele Fournet and FA

Art direction: Adele Fournet and Moyra SilvaMovement and exploration direction: Moyra Silva

Camera: Dana Bonilla, Felipe Wurst, Adele Fournet

Drone: Volante y Rasante -Eddy Callirgos and Manuel Rodríguez

Colour correction: Felipe Wurst