Yoggaton: Transformative Pleasure

On the last weekend in October, artist Maque Pereyra invites you to the embodied practice “Yoggaton: Transformative Pleasure” in the Radialsystem. Yoggaton is an intersectional movement practice that the Bolivian artist has been developing since 2016. By combining yoga asanas, pelvic dances and reggaeton music, Yoggaton sees the body as a place of memory, creativity and embodied knowledge. From a decolonial perspective, Maque Pereyra questions binary notions of spirituality and sensuality, body and mind, and pleasure and knowledge. Born from ten years of artistic research, workshops and performances — including “Solar Threshold”, “Culona de cerebro jugoso” and the research project “Perreando la migración” — yoggaton is both a movement and an artistic practice.

To mark Yoggaton's tenth anniversary, the Embodied Practice unfolds as a hybrid performance workshop: Participants are invited to a journey that ranges from reflection on embodiment to celebration, blurring the lines between joint learning, performance and dance floor.

Following the Embodied Practice, “Embodied Practices — Talk on Body Knowledge” will take place with Laura Campaz, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz, Julieth Morales and Maque Pereyra.