We Are the Land
A’nowarà:ke & AbyaYala perspectives
Fri 29 May | 3.30 – 5.30pm | Universal Hall, The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
Included in RISE Festival Weekend pass or £15 if bought separately
From north and south of the so-called "Americas", two artists share interactive activities rooted in their cultures and the land.
Martha Hincapié Charry of the Colombian Quimbaya lineage and Barbara Diabo from the Kanien’keha:ka First Nation of Turtle Island invite you to a day of exchange of ancestral knowledge, ecofeminist perspectives, and meaningful connections through movement, speech, and performances.
Bring comfortable clothing and be prepared to be barefoot and make contact with the ground. All welcome!
Artist Bio
Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo is a member of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) nation of Kahnawake on Turtle Island.
She now resides in Montreal, where she is the artistic director and choreographer for A’nó:wara Dance Theatre.
Recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Choreographic Award 2025 from the Banff Centre, she has been a choreographer and performer for over 30 years, creating shows that bring Indigenous themes, stories, and perspectives to light. She achieves this by combining powwow, Haudenosaunee, and contemporary dance styles to create an artistic fusion that appeals to a diverse range of audiences.
Her dance show, Sky Dancers, won Outstanding Touring Production in the Dora Mavor Moore Awards 2022, and she was also the winner of the prestigious Prix de la danse de Montréal for most notable dancer of the year in 2021.
Diabo takes pride in sharing her culture and performs across Canada and internationally. Her work has been seen live at National Arts Centre, Festival Quartiers Danse, Prismatic Arts Festival, Native Earth Performing Arts, Matriarchs Uprising, FODAR, Le Diamant, and Waterproof Festival (France); as well as on film on PULSE(APTN), Le Grand Solstice (Radio Canada), Telling Our Stories (Radio Canada), and Indigenous Day Live (APTN), to name a few.
Martha Hincapié Charry is a BIPoC Colombian artist, decolonial curator, choreographer, performer and researcher based in Berlin.
Martha is curator and artistic director of Plataforma/SurReal Berlin: independent festival for dance, performance, installation, discourse and screen dance since 2011. 2021 and 2022 she was associate curator of Radialsystem Berlin. In 2017/21 she worked as curator of Dance Bienal Cali, Colombia. Since 2015 she is a member curator of REDIV, the Ibero-American network of video dance festivals.