Honor The Feminine Podcast

www.honorthefeminine.com   Aurora Lagattuta is both childlike and witchlike.  Her highly embodied pieces often use multiple lanuages, poetry, song, abstract narratives, video and live scuplture with dance and theatrical movement. Her work has been described as being, “bizarre and beautiful” as well as “transformational” and “otherwordly” by the Huffington Post. She has created works ranging from community projects to ensemble and solo performances for site-specific and theatre venues across U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Throughout these travels, she has studied various dance and theatre modalities to develop my own particular dance theatre language that exposes the beauty of the eccentric and expressive body. Her aesthetic vision provides a trancelike and repetitive dream language that expresses the repressed aspects of the awkward and fragile body. This vision encompasses several foci: 1) isolated gestural textures; 2) exploration of contrasting emotional worlds—vacillating between violence and gentleness, streng