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• 1 2024-09-18T09:40:19-07:00 ReAct Latin America 2022: “Dancing with Bacteria” 3 ReAct Latin America and partners produced a creative theatrical performance, "Dancing with Bacteria," using traditional music together with modern dance to raise awareness about antibiotic resistance. plain 2024-09-18T09:42:21-07:00 https://www.reactgroup.org/news-and-views/news-and-opinions/2023-2/dancing-with-bacteria-a-theatrical-performance-about-antibiotic-resistance/
  
  
  "At the end of 2022, ReAct Latin America and partners produced a creative theatrical performance – Dancing with bacteria. The production used traditional music together with modern dance to raise awareness about antibiotic resistance....
  
  "'Dancing with Bacteria – For Our Planet, for Our Health' is a work of music, poetry, dance and visual arts that premiered in Quito, Ecuador on October 27 last year. The production intends –  in a creative way – to tell a story of a harmonic relationship between human beings, bacteria and Mother Earth.
  
  "The live performance was stunning: 30 musicians filled the room with sound, accompanied by three singers with their choirs. Wrapped in the powerful melody, four performers danced vibrantly to the visuals of moving microorganisms, projected on the screen at the back of the stage. The performance engaged over 450 people who gathered at the Capitol Theater in Quito for the premiere of the play.

  "This story began several months earlier, when the indigenous dance and music group Ensamble del Viento met ReAct Latin America and the international group Reimagining Resistance. Over the coming year they kept in contact through virtual meetings where the mixed group of artists, scientists and communicators from Australia, Bolivia, India and Ecuador discussed art, microbes, the use of antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance. As their ideas matured, they decided they would develop an artistic work that navigates the complex relationship between human beings, bacteria and the planet.
  
  “It was spectacular,” says Arturo Quizhpe, Director, ReAct Latin America. “Texts about One Health, antibiotic resistance, microbiome, functions and role of bacteria were transformed into poetry and dance…creating an unforgettable evening in one of the most important theaters in Ecuador.”

  The Ensamble del Viento is an artistic collective of the School of Music of the University of the Americas that promotes the rhythms, wind instruments and dance of the indigenous peoples of the Andes of Ecuador.

  The group Reimagining Resistance brings together scientists, artists and communicators who have been building an ecological metaphor about the bacterial world."
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  About Reimagining Resistance:
  
  "Over the last decade, ReAct together with partners from its extended network, have advocated for Reimagining Resistance through: international meetings that brought together artists, scientists and social activists for an exchange of ideas; support for the ‘One Health’ concept that seeks to integrate human and veterinary medicine; presentations at various conferences on the need for an ecological approach to antibiotic resistance; and artistic products/performances that highlight the positive role of microbes in our day to day lives.
  
  "These activities have in turn helped build a large network of people around the globe exploring new ways of approaching the human-microbe-health equation. In some parts of the ReAct network, notably in Latin America, and South-East Asia, the concepts of Reimagining Resistance have inspired both creation of new, innovative communication products as well as mobilization of health professionals and the general public."