“La(s) caída(s)” is built through the travel of the dancing body towards the gesture. The gesture is anchored as a signifier plenty of sense and reveals a story that is repeated; a story that folds back itself.

The main subject is the surviving body of a woman thrown and mistreated, that gets up again and again. This woman contains many other women: The victims of violence that live and recover in a society where the bodies only when are dead reveal the life.

The mask appears in order to disappears and cancel this woman, to make her common, to destroy her individuality. It is the latent trace that remains after the experience of violence.

The piece generates suspense, the violence is perceived. The character keeps seeking and tells her story materializing the discourse in the body: a body exiled from her own body.

Recently in Chile and Latin America constant femicides attacks have occurred. We represent the survivor (s) that testifies the horror. Bodies not words. That is the case of Nabila Rifo, a woman in Chile who survived uncountable blows in her cranium and to whom her eyeballs were extirpated. Women as Nabila, are hidden behind the mask of “La(s) Caída(s).

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Andrea Antonia Lagos Neumann