A Dance Tribute to Women Who Migrate
Migrant Women Receive Homage through the Dance Performance, Cielos. Under the direction of María Brezzo, Cielos is a tribute to women who migrate and their act of resistance. It is presented within the Universos Femeninos season, from March 30 to April 2, at the Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo del Centro Cultural del Bosque (CCB).
Within the framework of Universos femeninos, the Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), through the Coordinación Nacional de Danza (CND), continue to recognize the work of creators, dancers and directors. Now it is the turn of choreographer, María Madgalena Brezzo and her company Camerino 4, with the premiere of the work Cielos, from March 30 to April 2 at the Guillermina Bravo Dance Theater of the Bosque Cultural Center (CCB).
Universos femininos is the name of the season that interprets different perspectives on women’s experiences. Cielos is an interdisciplinary production built from collaborations between various artists and disciplines that originates from an investigation around the reality in which migrant women find themselves in Mexico.
The Milky Way
The montage proposes a parallelism and a metaphor between what happens in the country at a geographical and political level and the constellations of stars in the sky. The milky way is considered as a feminist cartography that makes visible the exodus of women in the national territory, particularly from the undocumented communities.
Dance Tribute
Thus, this dance tribute to women who migrate and their act of resistance arises from the idea of María Brezzo for thinking about the concept of “community,” of seeing the body as a linguistic space, as well as observing movement from a migratory perspective,
“It is a reflection and investigation that brings me closer to political philosophy and feminism, since it gives a theoretical framework to the investigation of my work.”
For Brezzo, Cielos aims to influence new scenic representations, more subtle and empathetic, of the reality of many migrant women, as well as propose new choreographic narratives that question the story of the reality of women’s lives in Mexico.
In an earlier interview with El Universal, Brezzo said that “Mexico is a good place for dance.” She had arrived from Uruguay for a vacation and found in Mexico her new home.
“What I like the most about Mexico is its poetry, its reality captured in metaphors, its smells, colors, parties, religion, the way of being,” she told El Universal.
Naturalized Mexican since 2005, Brezzo made her first trip to the Mexican capital in 1994 . During her stay she learned that Mexico was a place where all the arts could be studied, where there was a degree in choreography, so two years later in 1996, she was part of the first generations that graduated from the National Center for the Arts (CENART) in the Degree in Choreography from the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance.
In that interview she expressed that she no longer thought about Europe as a main reference. “It no longer interests me. It seems to me that what is emerging in Latin America is very interesting.”
Camerino 4
The Camerino 4 company was created in 2000 by choreographer and sculptor María Brezzo, with the aim of creating a space for research, creation, composition and reflections around the body. Her artistic proposals merge choreography with other artistic languages, mainly with the visual arts.
In his article about Cielo, Juan Carlos Talavera describes it as a choreographic tribute dedicated to migrant women in Mexico.
Talavera cites Brezzo’s inspiration behind her work:
“In this piece —conceived as a dance solo performed by the dancer Flor Bucio— we are talking about women who migrate, but not only those who make that way to leave Mexico, generally to the United States, but also from the performing arts perspective, approaching it as a territory and exploring how it is that one migrates from one genre to another, from one identity to another or how a person can be a ghost to others,” explained Brezzo, whose experience as a migrant from Uruguay made her aware of this social phenomenon.
Don’t miss Cielos! Showcased at the Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo of the Centro Cultural del Bosque.
Check updates at www.danza.inba.gob.mx, schedule subject to change.
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