Ep. 77: Merendiando with Misset Parata
September 21, 2022
I had a teacher – he said that we all are percussionists because our biggest instrument – and the most important – the heart, is always beating. – Misset Parata
In this episode, we chat with Misset Parata, an Actor and Percussionist, born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela where she was immersed into Afro- Venezuelan dance and Music Traditions. She is also one of the protagonists of Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament, a new live performance work having its opening at the Rutas Festival.
Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament is a new live performance works about belonging, land and the preservation of traditions. Drawing on twelve years of community-based fieldwork, this polylingual and multidisciplinary dance and theatre production offers timely insight into the complex lived realities of Venezuela’s cacao farmers. Creator, Director and Choreographer Victoria Mata roots her vocabulary and aesthetics in the tensions between remembering and forgetting, and in a dynamic dialogue between Afro-Venezuelan genres and contemporary expressions of dance and music.
Our co-host of this episode is a Venezuelan-born, Dora Award-winning performer, writer, facilitator and the very first guest we had in the podcast, Augusto Bitter.
For more information about the RUTAS FESTIVAL.
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