yoli x Barnsdall gallery Theatre

Yoli is a xicanx, 2-legged nagual (aka shapeshifter), and re-indigenzing cornstalk with roots along the border and so-called central mexico. Their creation, ritual, and body practices are devoted to liberating from colonial disembodiment and rooting in belonging as a "hije perdido" (lost child) finding their way home to the Earth and queer'ed ancestral ways of "being".  They use play, performance, improvisation, personas, ritual-ceremony, and deep listening to explore the intersections between queer intimacy, earth-based sentience, curanderx medicine ways, and indigenous mythology.  They are currently working on their DIY PhD aka Spiral Learning Journey centered on Indigenous Spirituality & (Eco)Somatics through School For the Ecocene. Along with performance, they share what they learn through film/photography, sculpture, installation, writing, teaching, facilitating, friendship, medicine making, "shamanism", "being", and other emergent forms.