Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way | Buna Siagua Negaduu gi Gabdage was a play created by Chocolate Woman Collective that tells one woman’s story of how she saves her own life by returning to her ancestral land and connecting to powerful female forces within Kuna cosmology, such as Chocolate Woman.

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way layers the stories of a girl soldier, Daughter from the Stars, and Sky Woman Falling (First Woman) with retellings of cultural stories of the Grandmothers of Creation. The play weaves realities to create a daring, thought provoking performance. An embodied journey of reclamation rooted in the Guna cosmology, this performance animates the narratives encoded in traditional molas (textiles).

Throughout this website you will learn about:
– Chocolate Woman Collective who created the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
– The play | Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
– Mola Dulad Media Collective who illustrated and animated the Mola Dulad
– The Mola Dulad Pictographic Movement Score
– The book | Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
– The Installation for gallery use and structures that tie it all together

  • The dramaturgical structure of the play is informed by these four aesthetic principles, which run throughout Guna culture and are a reflection of the cosmology 
  • The narrative content of the play is driven by the embodiment of MM‘s relationship to elemental female forces
  • Mola Dulad Media Collective transcribes embodied knowledge through gesture in space/time to create a pedagogical platform. The results offer artists a repository of Indigenous knowledge and digital tools for the creation of new culturally-specific works.
  • Principles of Guna Cultural Aesthetic
  • Duality & Repetition
  • Abstraction
  • Metaphor
  • Multidimensionality

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