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Woman who speaks am I
Spirit woman am I
Woman who calls am I
Night woman am I
River woman am I
Aline had the idea of working on something
that combined Mexican elements with flamenco
Flamencomexicano became the name of our group
and the show,
which we’re performing at the moment.
We decided to give it a different name.
We decided to call it ‘Women in Motion’.
We began to research the legend of La LLorona (The Weeping Woman).
We found many versions of this legend
in different regions of Mexico
and each region has a different version,
and in all of them the legend is portrayed as a woman
well, the spectre of a grieving woman
who is looking for her children whom she’s killed
she appears near places where there’s water.
To me this is a metaphor of what women
deal with in today’s society, about grieving women
who are looking for their children.
Sometimes,
the fact than The Weeping Woman kills her children
is not necessarily a real ***
but rather it’s often a woman
who decides to leave her dreams behind,
in essence, killing her creativity
in order to survive in today’s world.
The process of creating La LLorona choreography
became the core element of our project
because it was difficult.
It was the first thing we started to work on
and it became increasingly complex
and, curiously, it ended up being the key element of the project,
the most representative.
Mexican legends and Mexican women
are a good pretext, but in fact
this story is our story.
Our aim this year is to strengthen Flamencomexicano and
one of our medium, or perhaps, long term goals is
for this project as is
to continue to grow and expand its influence
and hopefully help some women
who have been an inspiration to us.
That is, we would like for it to reach Mexico.
At some point we would like
either to work with Mexican women
incarcerated in Madrid
or to perform the show in Mexico
and donate a portion of the proceeds
to a Mexican NGO that works with women.