CONSOLATION : Afro-Contemporary Movement Laboratory

Description

This workshop is an invitation to reconnect with the body as a source of energy, presence, and connection. Inspired by contemporary dance and Afro-Cuban roots, it offers an experience in which movement emerges from breath, rhythm, listening, and relationship with others.
In Cuban culture, the body dances long before it enters a studio. It is present in music, in the street, in everyday gestures, in the ways people celebrate, resist, and care for one another. From this perspective, the workshop is not about learning steps or choreographies, but about awakening an energy that is already present within each person.

Program

Through exercises in body awareness, improvisation, rhythm, and collective movement, we will explore the body as a territory of memory, vitality, and transformation. The practice will be guided by the idea of consolation, understood not as passive comfort, but as a living force that restores, connects, and gives the body back its capacity to feel, create, and share.
The encounter will take the form of an open laboratory where each participant will be able to release tension, activate their energy, expand their perception, and discover new ways of relating to themselves and to the group.
No previous dance experience is required. What matters is curiosity, openness to movement, and the desire to live a physical, sensitive, and deeply human experience.

Liliet Orozco

Liliet Orozco is a Cuban choreographer, founder and director of Orozco Contemporáneo, an independent dance company and contemporary art platform based in Havana.
Coming from Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, where she was a principal dancer and teacher, she develops a practice rooted in Cuban contemporary dance, Afro-Cuban traditions, and Creole forms. Her work explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, organization, and transformation.
Through choreography, live music, and collective research, she creates open scenic environments where bodies negotiate space, difference, and coexistence. Her current research with Julen Achiary revolves around the concept of Consuelo, understood as an active force of repair and reconfiguration in the face of instability.