DANZANTES DEL ALBA | DANCERS OF THE DAWN

In English.
Danzantes del Alba is a phantom carnival which ritualizes the making of 36 festive costumes of the character, El loco de la danza.  Several artisan workshops created these 36 costumes, including a group of old communist workers, the home of a Central American migrant woman who was earning money by crossing the border, a women’s cooperative who rescued an abandoned place and turned it into a small textile factory, and a collective of gay activists on the border with Guatemala.

Danzantes is a performative essay on the intersection of documentary research and the construction of landscapes on stage.  At the end of this extraordinary dance / story, the audience is invited to explore the final installation and become part of the living landscape.

“Danzantes” deploys an intimate revelation of solidarity and distance that when shown is hidden. Celebration and lament. How can we live between joy and pain? It is the question which haunts the audience as ghosts of collective fears and energies of some hopes lurk between the costumes and the performers. Aren ́t we all dressed in merchandise produced anywhere on the planet and sold elsewhere? Aren’t our bodies also scraps of gestures and forms of production and trade?” (Rodrigo Parrini).