‘Homoplastic sapiens’ is a self-criticism of the current consumer society.
Around 950 thousand tons of plastic are generated in the country per year. It is estimated that more than 886 tons of plastic waste are generated per day in Lima and Callao alone. According to Oceana Perú, a large part of this waste ends up in garbage landfills and others, in rivers reaching the sea.
Under this premise, ‘Homoplastic Sapiens’ emerges., which, metaphorically, is the next link in the chain in Darwin’s theory of human evolution. According to the vision of its creator, the national dancer Ana Lucía Saavedra, it is a being that arises from a plastic cell on a planet Earth that has perished due to widespread plastic pollution. This new being that results from the throwaway culture has an individualistic, superficial, competitive, insatiable character, it moves from and among garbage, and is capable of doing anything to survive.
The dance work ‘Homoplastic Sapiens’ is performed by five dancers, who build a fiction giving life to a character who is the product of a post-apocalyptic genetic mutation. The staging aims to transport viewers to the moment when this new human species comes to life, makes its way among its peers and without regard for them.
The dance show uses plastic as a symbolic element to denote the changes that human beings have experienced. The performers do not have a dermis, but rather plastic skin. In this way, attendees are invited to reflect on the excess of plastic in their lives.
With a touch of humor, exaggeration and music, ‘Homoplastic sapiens’ gives way to self-criticism about the current consumer society where people are objectified, used and discarded in an increasingly aggressive, contaminated and unequal world. Subtly, we invite ourselves to return to what is most essential: the body and ourselves.
‘Homoplastic sapiens’ is a long-form work, created and directed by Ana Lucía Saavedra, who, based on her time and experiences in Cusco, observed the dramatic presence of plastic waste tangled and scattered in archaeological areas outside the city, mountains, valleys and rivers. This led her to imagine possible scenarios of a world that is burying itself with this material while the majority of people decide to turn a blind eye.
The dance work ‘Homoplastic sapiens’ was the winner of the economic stimulus for the creation, production and/or exhibition of artistic proposals granted by the Ministry of Culture in 2023.
The presentations will be on April 5, 6 and 7 at the Sala Quilla in Barranco.
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