Comunicado

 

YEAR 2008

FORMAT Choreography

CREDITS choreography: Valeria Andrade · audio: Jorge Espinosa · voice: Joanne Vance

PRESENTATIONS Premiere at the Festival Mujeres en Escena, Quito (2008)

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SALT

 

they call me from the depths of the winds

a slow whisper / almost a moan

hypnotized I run after the voices

and the afternoon turns to water / turns to sand

until it flows out into castles of salt

cities of fire

in those eyes that forgot me

so many ages ago

 

SARA VANEGAS (Cuenca)

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In my experience as a gendered subject, I look to one side, I look to the other, I look at myself, and I verify diversity. A diversity that forks, from a symbolic plane, an imaginary, a language, a properly feminine genealogy, toward many inner worlds marked by the experience of lunar and hormonal rhythms, by intimate customs, which lead me to the notion of difference, to the territory of the other.

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Settled in otherness, I have reached a phase of reflection on woman as a subject of knowledge and a social agent, as an object still wounded by violence and discrimination. I take a political stance before the concepts of gender, class and race because they remain open problems. So I propose the need to constantly review the assumptions on which culture rests, in order to steer them toward a fairer, more respectful and more solidary change of the system.

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Choreography: Valeria Andrade

Audio: Jorge Espinosa

Voice: Joanne Vance