Trained as an art historian and a choreographer, Cecilia Bengolea works with performance, video, and sculpture, using her own and other people’s bodies as animated sculptures. For Bengolea, movement, dance, and performance stand as mediums for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Making dance a collaborative, liberating practice, the artist considers moving the body to be an inventive act and a means of exorcizing violence and trauma from the body’s memory, in both personal and collective dimensions. For the past ten years, Bengolea has extensively worked in Jamaica, collaborating with the local dancehall scene. She not only explores the role of social street dance and popular culture, but also the relationship of individual and collective bodies with nature. Bengolea seeks to create what she calls “harmonic communication highways” in order to synchronize the self with the surrounding environment, landscape, and wildlife that play leading roles in her videos and sculptures.