Gesel Mason shares her decade-long effort to preserve through live performance and video the work of contemporary Black dancers in the U.S. "From the Center Out" places us in the choreographer’s body as she moves and shows what experiencing her body as an archive feels like.

Broadcast across Glasgow, Scotland on Radiophrenia 2022, Feb 7-20. 

Reporting, production and story editing by Laura Marina Boria. Production, story editing and sound design by Ana Cecilia Calle.

From the Center Out - archiving Black dance in the U.S.

Entering and leaving the island is a common experience in Puerto Rico, but this episode is about the desire to stay and create. Poet Mara Pastor welcomes us to her farm and reveals the role of women in the new transformation of the Puerto Rican landscape.

Originally published on Crónicas al borde, a nonfiction podcast about processes of transformation, rupture, and suspension. Broadcast across Valparaíso, Chile on the XV Festival de Arte Sonoro Tsonami 2021, Dec. 11-18. 

Reporting, production and story editing by Laura Marina Boria. Production by Giulianna Zambrano and Daniela Dávila. Sound design by Rafael Subía.

He vuelto a la orilla

Produced a four-minute story about young Texans’ views on the abortion ban for Whistledown Productions (UK). 

Originally published on UR (Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company) in October 2021.

Newsreel World

Texas abortion ban

Dance and movement artist Noemi Segarra shares why she situates her work at the intersection of social justice and embodied practice.

Originally published on Pterodáctilo, a blog from UT-Austin's Dept of Spanish and Portuguese.

Reporting, production and story editing by Laura Marina Boria. Production, story editing and sound design by Ana Cecilia Calle.

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