Ramillete de caminos: el estudio de la Chakana y su influencia en construcción de las expresiones artísticas corporales contemporáneas en la primera década del siglo xxi en Cuenca

Abstract

The proposed present of investigation is to carry out a study of the chakana, about its symbolic-cultural value and to determine how its permanency is marked in the contemporary culture and of what it forms the chakana it influences in the creative processes of some local groups of traditional dance. By means of this information it is sought to design a methodology of scenic construction and to elaborate a dance-theater assembly that contributes to the development of the Ecuadorian scenic art, and reinforce the appraisement of the Andean symbols in the current culture. “Bouquet of roads” it is a dance assembly - theater that one knits starting from psico-corporal states that are derived of the experimentation actoral, with the four elements of the nature (it dilutes, fire, earth, air) that they become factors that stimulate the movement, the corporal energy and they configure the general dynamics of the work. It is also based in the exploration carried out in some groups of traditional dance of Cuenca, to know their working methodology. To all this it is added my personal vision of the contemporary dance and the theater, to be able to this way to approach the coalition of scenic languages. The work has as symbolic axis to the old man that represents the earth, the air, the fire and the water. The corporal work of the dancers evokes mythological gods and sacred animals of the Andean mythology. It is appealed to sounds of traditional instruments of wind and several authors' music. The conception of the choreographic design in the space, manages the geometric forms of the chakana that represent the cycles of life of the human being inside the Andean cosmovisión