hanal pixan: food for all souls
about hanal pixanHanal Pixan: Food for All Souls, is Itzatna Arts' first major imersive, multimedia, multi-sensory experience. We are working to make this R&D into a complete show in the upcoming years. In Hanal Pixan you will enjoy Mexican tamales, make a Day of the Dead altar, and enjoy ancestral legends. There will be different interactive activities and performances for you to live a true Día de los Muertos experience.
Hanal Pixan: Food For All Souls is a combined arts project inspired by Mexican Day of the Dead - specifically the ‘Hanal Pixan’ traditions of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico - with a focus on of the shared cultural heritage of corn maize farming, cultivation, and cuisine of both Mexico and the UK. We envisage our production to include: live cooking, shared meals, ritual actions, audience interaction, communal altar building, audio-visual soundscapes, video projections, to create an unforgettable multimedia, multisensory experience. Hanal Pixan will explore the themes of death and rebirth, ancestors, eating and consuming, ritual and ceremony, indegenous land resistance, and climate change - in relation and in remembrance of the shared deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and Mexico. This will be a new, collaborative performance devised with an ensemble of 4 lead artists and performers, with a small, supporting creative team of costume and set designers, lighting and sound engineers etc. to bring this immersive production to life. R&D performances of Hanal Pixan: Food for All Souls took place in November and December of 2021 with the support of Friction Arts at The Edge, Birmingham. Photography by Louise Carpenedo
Trailer by Jose Canseco Made possible using public funding from National Lottery through Arts Council England. Hanal Pixan: Food for all Souls is an original idea by ITZATNA Arts. |
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