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Shot in Jamaica between 2015 and 2019, Shelly Belly inna Real Life is a collaboration between artist and choreographer Cecilia Bengolea and the dancehall scene in Kingston and Bog Walk. It explores the influences of culture and nature within the Caribbean island art community. Narrated through movement and music, it follows the language of dancehall from the intricate rhythms of the jungle landscapes to the choreography and steps of the people whose passionate practice it follows. Its uniquely insider view grants unprecedented access to the characters whose vitality and influence has shaped a view of movement and life that reaches from its Jamaican founders to the world beyond.
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Cast:
Major Mission, Erika Miyauchi, Kissy McKoy, Craig, Nick, Jay, Shaky and Prince Blackeagle, Cecilia Beingolea, Shelly Belly, Overload Skankaz Oshane, Overload Skankaz Teroy, Giddy Elite Team, Alii and Lee Twinstarzz, Shanky, Winkyy and Larry Equanoxx -
Original Title:
Shelly Belly inna Real Life -
Country:
Jamaica -
Year:
2020 - 24’ English
Director
Cecilia Bengolea
Born in Buenos Aires, Cecilia Bengolea studied urban dance styles before she began researching Anthropological Dance, Philosophy and Art History at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2001, she moved to Paris and took part in the experimental dance curriculum Ex.e.r.c.e. led by Mathilde Monnier in Montpellier. Inspired in Lévi-Strauss’s memoir Tristes Tropiques, she co-directed two videos in 2011: La Beauté (tôt) vouée à se défaire with Donatien Veisman and Cri de Pilaga with Juliette Bineau. In collaboration with Jeremy Deller, Bengolea co-directed the film RythmAssPoetry (rap), commissioned by the Biennial of Lyon 2015. The second film born out of this partnership, Bombom’s Dream, was filmed in Jamaica in 2016 and commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in London and the Biennial of São Paulo. For the 2017 Biennial of Contemporary Arts in Lisbon, Bengolea presented the performance Buss Dem Head with DJ Nigga Fox at Lux/Frágil and in 2020 she took part in the Homework series, a project put forward by BoCA during the period of social confinement. A true multidisciplinary artist, Cecilia Bengolea conceives of her dance performances as “animated sculptures” and greets the fact that these shapes allow her to become “simultaneously object and subject”.
