Grotto

IBeznei 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 that imminent and mysterious process, it is a dialogue between the spectrum of the grandmother with all her versions and ages, the grandmother who walks slowly towards her transmutation, until turn into steam.
This show rebels against the attempt to take refuge in a formal performing discipline, it serves 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, these are the stories of life of them, our grandmothers.
The work began to be created in 2020, as part of a choreography project by Sandra Govil, supported by the Jóvenes Creadores program, presenting a first draft of the “Hielo” movement at the end of that same year at the Raúl Flores Canelo theater. Later, in 2021, with a larger cast, the movement “Agua” is previewed at the Teopanzolco Auditorium within the framework of “Habitar: Gala of our Morelense dance” and at the Cuautla Dance Meeting: Seeing what is not seen . In September 2022, based on a transformation of the work into a horizontal and collective creation process, both the immersive version will premiere at Casa Alba and the Italian version at the Teatro Ocampo, in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
In 2023 she is invited to the CDMX “Tiempo de mujeres” festival in a street version and to the “Performing arts festival and prize Presente Futuro '23” at the Teatro Libero Palermo. A laboratory on the work was also held with a public exhibition in collaboration with Diaria Palermo, both in the Sicilian capital, in Italy.