Disguise
DISGUISE
(2007)
30 minutes - 9 dancers
Click HERE to see a video exerpt from the 2007 New York season at Joyce Soho.
Organizing layers of character driven drama and breaking apart quotidian social gestures,
I explored the struggle for personal identity in the face of an increasingly politicized and superficial global society. My movement vocabulary is a window through which I see under the make-up and below the mask of one’s public identity. On stage, I painted characters in a mural of living emotions, and the specific characters from my home-land of Argentina became familiar portraits: the soccer fans, the Tango dancers, the homeless “cartoneros,” the luxurious high society, the disappeared, the protestors marching in demonstrations & the immigrants. For me, the question of “society” and personal identity are interwoven, and the work centers around the destruction and subsequent rebuilding of that society. It is the story of one country, which can be any country. No matter what country, the pages of history are written with the same words: anger, power, joy, fear and hope.
