“Buenas Noticias”, a dance and memory play in honor of the victims of enforced disappearances.

‘Good news’ – also called “Allin Willacuicuna” in Quechua, is an unprecedented dance and art project initiated by La Plaza Theater and Sala de Parto in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). presented on Tuesday 23rd at 19:00 at the Place of Remembrance (LUM).

This proposal is meant to pay tribute to the more than 21,000 people who went missing during the period of violence that engulfed our country between 1980 and 2000. Its goal is to tell and share memories of happy episodes that were experienced despite the pain. absence.

The musical note will be provided by the ayacucho musician Kaifex and the singer Renata Flores, who will perform part of the song that was part of the project. The artist Huamangina will comment on the importance of this work for a new generation that was unaware of what happened at the time.

dialogue table

The program includes the presentation of six dance videos, which are part of the artistic project of director Alejandro Clavier, choreographed by Monica Silva Macher.

During the presentation, there will be a short video showing how the experience went, and a dance performance featuring six women from Accomarca. There will also be a table-dialogue about dance and creativity in the process of family members.

Theophila Ochoa, Member Association of Relatives Affected by Political Violence in Accomarca County and a Good News contributor; Adelina Garcia, President National Association of Relatives of Abducted, Detained and Missing Persons of Peru (ANFASEP); Eva Esteban, ICRC psychologist; Monica Silva, director of Danza PUCP and project choreographer; and Renata Flores, an artist from Ayacucho.

“Dance Treatment”

For the protagonists of Buenas Noticias, communicating with their missing loved ones through body language, sharing good news about the events that have happened in their lives since they last saw them, was revealing.

“Experiences can be so complex and full of contradictions that speech may not necessarily indicate their real dimension. Memories become sensations, and movement becomes a very real channel for their formation, because dance heals,” commented Monica Silva in a press release.

The work appeared in 2019 as a way of reimagining the traditional celebration that ANFASEP’s “mamitas” held annually on the occasion of the Day of the Dead in Ayacucho. This year the project reached another important milestone in Accomarca with the participation of six women from Association of Relatives Affected by Political Violence of Accomarca County (AFPAVDA)residents of Lima, who have been waiting for the delivery of the bodies of their relatives for more than 35 years.

In six short films streamed via Tiktok and Instagram, the public can recognize the “good news” that Theophila, Roberta, Alberta, Fernandina, Matilda and Sophia have prepared for their relatives who died in 1985. Through dance and body expression, they tell what has happened to them over the past three decades.

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The “good news” confirmed the events until next year. In October it will continue with a workshop with Regional Federation of Ashaninka, Nomatsigenga and Kakinte Women (FREMANK)based in Satipo, Junin.

In 2023, the project will reach Grand National Theater with a special supply. The public will be able to see the Good News presentation a few days after launch through the ICRC (https://www.icrc.org/es/document/allin-willakuykuna-buenas-noticias-peru) and through social media. networks of the same object, place of memory and delivery room.

EER 4×05 Series and movies we always come back to + our recommendations

Each of us has a series or a movie that we never get tired of watching. If we find that it is running, we leave it on or go to our favorite app and it becomes our “old good friend”. In this episode, we’re talking about those productions that don’t have break-ins, as well as leaving you our recommendations to finish off with Father’s Day recommendations (yes, we’ve recorded before, but just listen).