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Pulling Scales
A visceral immersion in identity, repression, and resilience, inspired by Cuba and surrealism.
Goyes’ka | Henry Rodríguez
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[vdm_eventbuttons]- GENRE: Dance
- THEME: Dystopia / Utopia, IdentiWho?, Speaking Bodies
- LANGUAGE: Language No Problem
- Warning: Trigger warning: in this performance (sexual) violence is depicted
- Accessibility: Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
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Is it a lizard? A caiman? Or maybe just a dog? Or just a man… All we know is that it’s green, sensual, mad and hungry for change.
People in Cuba have been stuck in a harsh, endless cycle for a long time. They are crushed like bugs under the pressure of twisted communist ideas and wild, extreme right-wing beliefs.
Pulling Scales is based on the idea of change and transformation. It reflects on the process of awakening, both individual and collective. It’s a dance performance by Henry Rodríguez in collaboration with Elle. a.k.a. Lea Katrin (costume design) and L’DELTA a.k.a. Henry Rodríguez (music production) and is part of a series of works titled Physical Rootlessness.
Biography
Henry Rodríguez is an interdisciplinary artist born in Cuba. A graduate from the National School of Dance (BA Spanish dances, 2011) in Havana, Cuba and the Dutch Ballet Academy (BA Teacher of Classical Ballet, 2024). As a dancer, he is a former soloist with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba and worked with choreographers such as Rosario Cárdenas, Pepe Hevia, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo, George Cespedes, Theo Clinkard and Faizah Grootens, among others. As an educator Henry has been a regular guest teacher at Henny Jurriens Studio, Studio AnnaMora, ArtEZ, Fontys, Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts, DansHuis Haarlem, Amsterdam Dance Center, The Cuban Ballet Program, among others where he continues to share knowledge and passion through three main dance classes and styles such as Classical Ballet, Goyes’ka Tools and Curvo Movement. In 2022 he created GOYES’KA, a dance and physical theatre emergent project-based company and platform for interdisciplinary works in the Netherlands where he is delving into his own music production and choreographic practice.