Natalia (Nika) Sorzano


OMNITOXICA
2019
Scenography 
Journalistic and forensic performative ritual about the history of Coca and how it passed from being a green, sacred, medicinal plant into a whitewashed, capitalist, toxic product: cocaine. 

In OMNI TOXICA the coca plant machiavellizes its own court case while shedding light on the incoherent gap between justice and legality, between wellness and toxicity that overshadows this whole multibillion-dollar industry. 

The project borrows strategies from journalism, spiritism, narco-culture, alchemy and activism to construct a dystopian laboratory. Here the politics of death behind what we call the Coca-Cocaine-Cola complex are revealed as the continuation of a neo-colonial order in place. 
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Collaborators: Paula Chaves Bonilla and Thais Di Marco
I contributed to this collaborative work with the scenography. 

This work has been shown in:

Productiehuis Rotterdam Theater, 2019
Veem, House for performance, Amsterdam, 2019
Het Hem, Amsterdam, 2021

Credits:

Concept & Artistic Direction - Paula Chaves Bonilla
Choreography - Thais Di Marco & Paula Chaves Bonilla 
Performance - Nadia Bekkers, Karina Villafan & Paula Chaves Bonilla 
Visual Artist / Scenographer - Natalia Sorzano
Sound Artist - Nadia Bekkers
Dramaturgy / Artistic Advice -  Rodrigo Batista
Research - Natalia Chaves López & Paula Chaves Bonilla
Light Design & Technical Support -  Dana Claasen
Produced by - Veem House for Performance & Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam












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