"Gruta" Season at the Benito Juárez Theater, CDMX
Thu, Sep 21
|Mexico City
This show rebels against the attempt to take refuge in a formal performing discipline, serving as a work of archive and collective memory that opens space to diverse narratives of migrant women, artists, housewives, teachers, and even victims of feminicide. It is a tribute to grandmothers.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2023, 8:00 PM CST – Sep 24, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
Mexico City, Calz. Manuel Villalongín 15, Col. Renacimiento, Cuauhtémoc, 06500 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
About the event
Beznei brings together an intergenerational group of 13 women to collect, like a collection of threads in a cookie box, the characteristics and memories of the ancestors of each of the members, which within their particularity shows their universality. It is an immersive journey that lands in dreamlike, fun, grotesque, seductive, tender and ritual situations, using different artistic media to generate its own language, such as dance-theater, cumbia, hair suspension, singing, live looping, electroacoustic music, contemporary dance, among others.
This work arises from exploring the cycles of water and its relationship with the life cycles of women, along this path discovering that we are the mineral result of the first drops that pierced the earth, of those first women who did not count their years. of life, but they sang songs to understand and communicate life. That is why Grotto is also a work that tells us about death, about…
Tickets
Promo merch + ticket
Purchase a 100% cotton t-shirt or tote bag with the original illustrations of the work, designed by Eunice Guerrero and produced at Atomav Studios.
Sale endedMX$250.00
+MX$6.25 ticket service fee