Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament is a new live performance works about belonging, land and the preservation of traditions. Drawing on twelve years of community-based fieldwork, this polylingual and multidisciplinary dance and theatre production offers timely insight into the complex lived realities of Venezuela’s cacao farmers. Creator, Director and Choreographer Victoria Mata roots her vocabulary and aesthetics in the tensions between remembering and forgetting, and in a dynamic dialogue between Afro-Venezuelan genres and contemporary expressions of dance and music.

This is an outdoor, walk-up performance – there are no tickets needed to attend – just show up at Mel Lastman Square, Upper Rose Garden (5100 Yonge St)  – a few steps south of the North York Centre Subway.

Presented with Aluna Theatre and the RUTAS 2022 International Festival and in partnership with TO Live, this dance theatre production is a festive outdoor live performance and will be a part of ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art.