Boca de loba
From a desert myth, we explore the themes of death and eroticism.
In the cave, the mouth of the Loba, dwell the Chivalas: Lava, Wind, Oasis, and Darkness. Daughters of the Loba, the goddess of transformation. Untamed, amorphous, embodied elements of the desert, the Chivalas endure dehydration, extreme temperature changes, gusting winds, and mirages to pass through the portal of death. Between the cave and the temple, the four trace the waltz of deconstruction to reach the divinity of their mother, the Loba
We chose the desert as a chimera of feminine energy. A terrain that leans toward the curved, the cyclical, the horizontal, the sensitive, stealthy, and expansive. A seemingly barren, extreme land, reflecting the essence—the essence necessary for accepting death.
c r e d i t s
Direction and choreography: Gabriela Ceceña
Associate artist: José Ramón Corral
Created and performed by: Guadalupe Ballesteros, Perla López, Fernanda Ballesteros, Gabriela Ceceña
Set design: Efraín Alday, Guadalupe Ballesteros, Larisa Arce
Costume design and production: Miguel Ríos
Sound design: Beatriz Corona
Music: José Javier Durazo, Antonio Vivaldi, Clara Rockmore, Maurice Ravel
Lighting design: Christian Durazo
Dramaturgy: Fernanda Ballesteros, Gabriela Ceceña
Makeup and mask design: Meme García
Choreography assistant: Guadalupe Ballesteros
Production: FUTURET
Logistics and administration: Daniel Villaseñor
Contributing company: ELGA Constructora
External eye: Ana Paula Ornelas
This piece was created thanks to the Fiscal Stimulus for Culture and the Arts in Sonora (EFICAS).
The dramaturgy of Boca de Loba was adapted into a short story, printed in both Spanish and French as part of the Écho series by Constanza Piaggio, thanks to curator Dayneris Brito and the Le 6b gallery in Paris, where it premiered.
