Our Story
T U N J O S Y C A N T A R O S
E T H N O L O G I C D A N C E C O M P A N Y
Artistic organization that working since 2010 in Melbourne- AU. Which aims to reveal the cultural diversity from Hispanic traditions and customs.
Our mission is keep alive the ancestral wisdom through multidisciplinary art work combining the culture through origins, history, traditional and new dance folk tendencies with contemporary dance. With the unique propose to speak about what we are made of.
D A N C E M O D A L I T Y
This dance started with a Technical laboratory of natural bodies (community people) that have specific qualities that come from culturally inherited dance experiences. As the dance techniques increment with age and experiences, their culture gave to them knowledge of the senses, and how to interpret the rhythms and incorporate in with movement. At this point those bodies incorporate the basic steps, sensations, emotions and feelings from experiencing the benefits between
E X P E R M E N T A L D A N C E /
C O N T E M P O R A R Y D A N C E /
P H Y S I C A L T H E A T R E /
C I R C U S / C O N T A C T / C R Y S T A L B A L L S /
A N C E S T R A L D A N C E S /
there is a creation of new dance tendency. As the result, it rescues “lost dances” that combine the media with contemporary art as well as new dance aesthetic and discipline. This enriches the concept and context of this ritual dance practices.
P A S T P A R T I C I P A T I O N & S U P O R T W I T H
Global Water Dances - Sydney 2017
Pachamama Festival - Sydney 2017
The Wide Open Space Festival - Alice Springs 2017
O R I G I N A R I O 2 0 1 6 - A rt from Origin -
United We Dance
Embracing Spirit Creative Arts and Movement Psychotherapy
Moomba Festival Street Parade
Ventana Fiesta Frankston
Pako Festa
Hispanic Latin American Festival Johnston St. Fiesta
Chilean Latin American September Festival
Global Water Dances International Festival 2015 & 2013
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)
Fund-raising FAVELA CUP 2014
Wattle Glen Primary School
Multicultural Harmony Festival
Latin Film Festival
Latin Summer Festival
Carnifest supported by the Salvation Army – The Couch and AFIS – Australian Federation of International Students
Melbourne Filmoteca
Australian Western Sahara Association
Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI)
O R I G I N A R I O 2 0 1 3
Children’s Peace and Arts Festival – Bendigo
Premier’s Gala Dinner of Cultural Diversity Week 2013
Multicultural Arts Victoria
Sonidos de Mi Tierra / Sounds of My Land 2012
Women out Wild
I Love Vegans Festival 2012
“Keeping the traditions and meaning in the dance” INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY
Sisters for Sisters
Castlemaine Steiner School Fair Day
Inti Raymi “ Festival of the Sun”
Latina American Solidarity ORG
Viva Festival Fed Square
Preston City Council “Welcome International Students”
O R I G I N A R I O 2 0 1 3 was the first event fully created by Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Company, revealing the concept of Ethnodanceology Art to discover ways, and intangible documents of pre-historic cultures that could be manifested through dance. The dance pieces expressed the cultural complexity of Colombia. The origins, the mixing of cultural groups, the evolution of new cultural identities and the struggle that are still being faced today these ethnic groups in Colombia.
Contemporary, Experimental and Ancestral Dance Entertainment Services
Workshops
Classes
Choreography
All Contemporary-Latin Performative Art Styles
