Jimena Silva
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- May 6
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Updated: May 13
//May 2025
//Sociologist / Body researcher / School of Feminist and Gender Studies, National University of Colombia
Jimena likes to dream of horizons where women are free in our bodies, thoughts and feelings. Dance is her place of expression. She has come to discover that her questions in movement are related to water, the waters, the power of women's waves.
She considers herself a curious and restless person, interested in the path women have taken in the arts, the body and politics. This became a driving force for creation and research, seeking to propose, with and through the body, a motive for poetic and political action, in conjunction with collective work. She received an honourable mention for her degree thesis in Sociology, entitled ‘From the Poetic Body to the Political Body’. She has independent experience as a performer-creator in creative, academic and staging processes in theatre, dance, video dance and photo performance. In 2022, she delved deeper into the 5 Rhythms dance and Dance Movement Therapy. In 2023, she completed a residency with the Brazilian theatre group Lume Teatro, ‘O corpo multifacetado’ (The Multifaceted Body). And in 2024, she specialised in Feminist and Gender Studies at the National University of Colombia.
With these experiences, she developed her project with diverse women, Corpoéticas – Corpolíticas, a socio-artistic proposal that is being developed specifically with two women's collectives and networks in Bogotá during 2024, and in 2025 she will launch the proposal Cuerpario, which aims to continue the dialogue with other territories such as Mompós. Corpoéticas por una orilla seeks the power of collective encounter between women through movement practices and autobiographical writing. Corpolíticas por otra orilla encourages collective reflection, questioning the body in its place and its collective action for social mobilisation, stirring the waters as political acts.
El Boga Residency
Today's proposal unites the shores and is presented in Mompox, developing CuerpaRio de la mujer hicotea. Fals Borda stated that the ‘hicotea man “knows how to endure the setbacks of life, combining reason and love, body and heart, to rid himself of all the (mal)formations that tear apart that harmony and to be able to speak the truth”. (Borda, 2009: 10). In this way, the residency in Mompox seeks to generate reflections on dance—the poetic and political body—with women, the hicotea women: women who activate their knowledge and wisdom through dance, who dance, meet and coexist in the territory of different ages, experiences and reflections on amphibious culture, and how this is rooted in everyday ways of writing and rewriting with the body.
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