Conservation - the web of life

This creative work is respectfully inspired by and deeply rooted to visionary human states of consciousness. We are profoundly honoured to convey this message through the art of performance.

CONSERVATION "The Web Of Life"

An intercultural project that thrives to create awareness of the sacredness of nature's origin, its rooted and intimate interconnection with ancestral cultural expressions of different generations of people. In doing so it tries to bring knowledge and wisdom of the old into a contemporary space, igniting reflection and dialogue among the audience and the community in general. 

A unique dance language of multi-sensory artwork that investigates and experiments choreographed senses and  feelings through body movement. Accompanied by a corporeal installation, the seven dancers embark on a spacial journey through body sculptures, video art projections, singing and the interplay of lighting mediums.

This production shares narratives about the origin of life, memories of lineage and the perpetual repercussion of extinction on our planet. 

Presented and fully created by Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Company , this immersive performance will inspire audiences of all ages to connect with and care for our natural environment.

Artistic Director and Choreographer Kathleen Gonzalez Villamizar.

Saturday, 12th December

7:00–9:00 pm / OPEN DOORS 6:45 PM

DJAARA - Larnangurrak (Our place)

43 Hattam Street, Golden Square VIC 3555.

BENDIGO

****** ONE SHOW ONLY *****  

(Tickets are on sale now! Special offer till 30th of October 2026)

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ADULTS $26 

KIDS from 3 to 12 years old  $21

BABIES to 2 years old free entry ( registration essential )

MOB & FIRST NATION free entry ( registration essential )

//  DOOR TICKETS $35 

Invite your family and friends, be part of this unique cultural experience!

*** Please be advised

Site Flow: This event will be presented in between outdoor and indoor environments.

Accessible Event: Ramp or level (step free) entry, Accesible bathrooms, All-gender bathrooms.

>> THE DANCERS <<

ANA MARIA SANCHEZ - COLOMBIA

Ana is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist working across visual arts and film. Her practice explores public space, vulnerability, and collective memory through performance, installation, and audiovisual media. She holds a BA in Visual Arts with a focus on audiovisual media from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) and has trained in theatre (Teatro Bernardo Romero Lozano) and filmmaking (Escribe Cine A.C., 2018). In 2023, she completed an MA in Public Space at RMIT University in Melbourne. Ana’s work often addresses social and political issues, using the body as a narrative tool to question power structures and promote collective reflection.

CAROLINA AGUILERA -  ARGENTINA

Carolina is a skilled architect, educator, arts and community engagement practitioner. Her practice revolves around project-based work, where she curates, produces, and facilitates contemporary arts projects. These projects are centered around intercultural activities, involving diverse communities, audiences, and artists from different backgrounds.

She collaborates with CaLD artists, organising immersive workshops that connect different disciplines such as language, sports, cuisine and arts and crafts. Her team facilitates these workshops in various settings such as schools, festivals, and more.

Carolina's journey with dance began at an early age, as she naturally gravitated towards it. Growing up, she immersed herself in the rich tapestry of folkloric dances, particularly from Latin America. During her high school years, Eurhythmy captivated her with its expressive movements. As she ventured into Europe and Australia, Carolina explored various dance forms, including tango and other folk dances within ballroom and creative dance spheres. While initially not pursuing dance as a main activity, she now finds herself reigniting her passion and pursuing the long-held dream and is eager to delve deeper into the world of ethno-dance, combining her love for cultural traditions, movement, and creative expression.

Overall, Carolina's work reflects her commitment to fostering intercultural dialogue, promoting inclusivity, and creating meaningful artistic experiences. She finds all these qualities in Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Co.

DOROTA BUZIAK - POLAND

Dorota is deeply rooted in the indigenous folkloric dance of Eastern Europe with over a decade of practice and performance in Poland. Since migrating to Australia, Dorota focused on folkloric dances of Latin America excelling in Argentine tango under the tutelage of exceptional native maestros both in Australia and Argentina. Her passion for tango took her around the world, including Argentina, Poland, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and Canada. Her practice has progressed to free movement that finds expression in contemporary dance style. Dorota approaches her art with deep spiritual connection with the environment, fellow dancers and the audience.

ESPERANZA AYUSO -  COLOMBIA

Esperanza is a mother, partner, daughter, sister, friend, and teacher with a deep love for movement, dance and music. She came to Tunjos wanting to explore dancing with a focus on how it feels rather than how it looks and, through the process, build her own style. She danced Colombian folklore at a young age, and later danced flamenco while living in Spain. She fell in love with the strength, flexibility, body awareness and circular movement of pole dancing 5 years ago and today she dances and teaches this style in Melbourne. Her love for experimentation impulses her to mix all these practices with the particular style of tunjos’ creative director and members to discover and express her own dance language.

KATHLEEN GONZALEZ  - COLOMBIA

Kathleen is a Melbourne-based Colombian multi-medium,  experimental and contemporary artist. She also is a producer with intercultural forms, ethno-dance writer, artistic director and founder of Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Company and Ethnodanceology Art-. a study of dance through the application of a number of disciplines such as anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, and ethnography. It proposes ideas in new multi-ethnic phases and stages to encourage future diversity of human’s legacy and expression into this new era.

Kathleen researches contemporary and interactive dance that is emotional, exploring the wisdom and ancestral practices. During the past seven years, Kathleen’s creative work was challenged due to the social restrictions. Kathleen’s creative work was challenged due to the social restrictions. Now her practice processes embrace new ways of mixing technological skills that complement her career. Always striving to understand new original forms of movement, and performative arts. She encourages resonance between art forms and expressions that touch everyone, often addressing cultural exchange on ecological, political, and social environments within communities.

She addresses terms of decolonisation through a curatorial framework that crossover practices that embrace intergenerational issues to standing up for the rights of universal cohesion and human equity.

Focusing in body-art installation and site-specific performances, Kathleen’s work encourages intercultural community engagement. Her most recent choreographic  work has been receiving infrastructural support  follow up with an art residency - with Darebin Council. She has been presenting her evolving international solo work, IOKOS CADERE , a piece shaped by the performance environment  and centred on the concept of  ECOCIDE , featured at “ BARRING  YANABUL  -  YIRRAMBOI  2025 ” under a City of Melbourne commission. In addition, she toured internationally with her company, fostering intercultural creative exchange and community engagement at Bandung Arts Festival 2025 and Bantengan Festival Batu 2025 in Indonesia. At present, Kathleen is adapting her methodology and dance practice to build a cohesive framework for educational programs at Biosfera Origen Art Movement, Metaphysics & Nature, aiming to establish a new somatic service and environmental responsiveness for all ages .   

MARY FAHEY  - AUSTRALIA 

Mary feels most alive when she is in nature, with her friends and family, reading, cooking, or dancing. At a young age she connected to dance in a deep way through the Martha Graham style. She fell in love with how this practice explores the opposites of contraction and release in the body. 

For a time, Mary lost her deep connection to dance, because it started to become solely about appearance. Then she found Tunjos, where she can once again practice styles and forms, but also dance with deep intention and remember how movements speak to spirit. 

Mary also came to Tunjos because she resonates with the understanding of dance as an ancient and sacred practice by all peoples. In this way, she connects to her Irish roots through movement; a family line of storytellers, dancers, and musicians.

GERO FIGUEROA - CHILE

(More soon)

TUNJOS Y CANTAROS ETHNOLOGIC DANCE CO.

Multidisciplinary, contemporary, experimental and artistic organisation based in Melbourne , Australia . Founded in 2 0 1 0  by choreographer, dancer and researcher Kathleen Gonzalez Villamizar , the company has established a distinctive presence in Victoria’s performing arts sector and is increasingly recognised on interstate and international  platforms.  

The company develops work that reveals shred ideas, ethics and values across diverse cultural backgrounds, keeping traditions and customs alive through intergenerational transmission.. Operating at the intersection of contemporary dance, physical theatre, interactive body art installation and site-specific practice, Tunjos fosters intercultural dialogue, ecological awareness, mutual care and collective understanding.

Through creative laboratories and site-specific explorations, Tunjos develops practices spanning natural landscapes, rural areas, suburban, contexts and urban spaces  - producing inclusive programs accessible to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. The company cultivates an ethical choreographic language rooted in care for life, shaped through sustained engagement with diverse communities including First Nations Peoples. 

Framing art as vehicle for ecological awareness and people-to-people connection, Tunjos prioritises regeneration, responsible land stewardship and preservation of vital resources. The company's  practices positions artistic exchange  as a tool for cultural cooperation, bilateral relationship-building and sustainable development - values central to its engagement with international partners.

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CONSERVATION "The Web Of Life" is an independent art event fully created by Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Company, revealing the concept of Ethnodanceology Art researching, exploring, experimenting and discovering ways to practice this spiritual dance method.

Safeguarding earthkeeper's oral traditions passed down to our founder Kathleen Gonzalez, from Grandmothers and Grandfathers Muisca, A'i, Mexika, Aymara, Quiswa, Mayan and  Lakota First Nations Peoples.

We aim to keep the original relationships, knowledge and wisdom of pre-historic cultures alive that could be manifested through this sacred dance style. The dance pieces express the cultural complexity of old ritualistic practices from the Americas. The origins, the mixing of cultural groups, the evolution of new cultural identities and the struggles that are still faced today to keep these  ancestral traditions alive.

Any enquires please contacting us via email at profundoslegados@gmail.com or call at +61 4 312 61 552