No estoy sola
The one-woman show of Patricia Ariza tells us about the dead leaders; about the countless women who fall because they belong to a community council, because they think differently, because they have a different opinion, because they defend the land where they live, because they work for peace, or because they are looking for a place to live in this country Columbia so big and so foreign that it ignores them because they are poor and brave. “No estoy sola“ (I am not alone) receives and recreates the influence and the poetic memory of more than 100 performances of Ariza. It is developed with the use of non-verbal languages, with her present and silent action, and with the video as a poetic and unconcealed witness of the time and space lived. It shows us the street with the performances and the endless lists of names of men and women who die every day pierced by bullets, a list that never ends, as suggested by the beautiful evocative object of the street organ that she spins in her moving silent action.
General direction and art direction: Patricia Ariza
Audiovisual design: Patricia Ariza and Francesco Corbelletta
Lighting design: Carlos Robledo
Technical support: Carlos Satizabal, Lina Támara, Nhora Gonzalez
Scenographic production: Jorge Ardila
Puppet: Johnathan Rodríguez – Pereira Theater Troop
Dress animations: Cecilia Traslaviña and Simón Uribe
Special Thanks: La Candelaria Theater Group, Colombian Theater Corporation, Women’s School of the Colombian Theater Corporation, Nohra González, Ximena Cuervo, Women’s Social Movement.
Language: Spanish, non-verbal
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BIOS:
Patricia Ariza is a playwright, poet, performer, actress and theatre director. She has received international recognition for her artistic work and her cultural commitment to peace and the defense of human rights and is the director of the Colombian Theatre Society, an art historian at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the co-founder of the Casa de la Cultura (1966), now Teatro La Candelaria, of which she is the director. She is also a co-founder of the Movimiento Cultural con los Sectores Marginados (1995) and the director of the groups Rapsoda, Travesía, Flores de Otoño and Tramaluna Teatro. She has also directed the Festival de Mujeres en Escena por la Paz and the Festival de Teatro Alternativo. She is a scholarship holder and member of ASHOKA, a foundation for the promotion of social enterprises, and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.