Ancestros

About Diana Lopez Soto

My culture, heritage and relationship to Earth inform my projcess and artistic practice. I weave stories, create movement experiences, hold spaces for exploration and work with ritual and ceremony. I work independently and in collaboration with other multi-disciplinary artists in site-specific work, artistic residencies, exhibitions, and laboratories.

Additional Projects

Nomada

A solo performance that brings together contemporary indigenous dance, aerial dance and installation art.

Terminal

Speaks of the journey of grieving, the process of waiting and the spaces in between.

Enlazadas

Explores peformance as an act of reciprocity with space, with living organisms and the energies in which the process takes place.

Otros Rostros

A choreographic exploration of movement and performance with Mexican masks, heels and folklore.

Ancestros

Initiates as a crucial response to the intrinsically connected relationships between our bodies, soil systems and rocks.

Nudos

Invites us to embody the material and the depth of our relationships.

Ancestros

Ancestros is a work in progress that initiates as a crucial response to the intrinsically connected relationships between our bodies, soil systems and rocks. From rock to soil and soil to rock, the eternal and continuous cycles of Earth connect mineral, bone, DNA, water and microbes to the human body.

Ancestros explores the ancestral and cosmic formation of rocks and soil bodies in relationship to the human body. Our investigation celebrates and honours the relationships between human and molecular biomass that form this body of systems. The tension and poetic sensuous experience of this work awakens cellular memory and transports us into the universe of the microcosmos, where living organisms carry particles of soil attached to their forms.

Toronto | Hamilton | Uxbridge

Ancestros speaks of the transcendence of our relationship and interdepedence through visual poetry and storytelling.