Collective cooking and writing around tamal

To foster dialogue and the sharing of practices, far° is teaming up with AVDC – the Vaud Organisation for Contemporary Dance – to host a ddd* day (dramaturgy, dance, dialogue) during the festival. Everyone is welcome to take part and enjoy this shared moment.

Proposed by visual and performance artist Maria Fernanda Ordoñez, also known as Mafé, this collective creation workshop invites participants to gather around the making of a tamal: a traditional Latin American dish wrapped in leaves, steeped in popular knowledge and migratory stories. Here, cooking together becomes a moment for transmission and shared anecdotes. Through the preparation of the tamal, the group explores the connection between cooking and dramaturgy. As the dish steams, the group moves into a writing session – a time to activate other forms of presence, to summon voices and landscapes and to reflect on what it means to offer something of oneself: a dish, a story or a memory. This workshop is envisioned as a convivio – a moment of collective action, of speaking of the present and celebrating togetherness through the act of cooking.

For this day of workshops, Chloé Démétriadès joins Mafé to open up new lines of reflection on how we create and share with audiences. Who do we speak to when imagining a performance or cultural project? Who are we hoping to meet through these processes? And with whom is it most urgent to build shared spaces today? By rethinking cultural outreach beyond rigid institutional frameworks, Chloé invites us to move past inclusion “labels” that often fail to manifest in real action. Come share your thoughts, frustrations and aspirations around the meaningful projects you’re working on.

*The ddd (dramaturgy, dance, dialogue) meetings were initiated by AVDC (Vaud Association for Contemporary Dance) in 2022. They approach dramaturgy not as a scholarly discipline, but as an intuitive and multifaceted practice that circulates between people, ideas, working processes and gestures.