Three years… the length of a childhood. The time it takes for a body to come undone and gather itself again from what remains. Three years of forced renovations, with no blueprints and no architects. A suspended construction site, half-finished, where nothing ever quite fits back the same.
In that time I created a life, while mine seemed to drift away. While my whole being became a work zone: closed off, fragile, fenced from within.
This piece is born from there. From a body on pause, from a soul in transit. From an uncertain return to the stage, with more years, more cracks… and fewer certainties. It isn’t about recovering the old shape, but about recognizing the new one: tighter, softer, more honest. More mine.
And in parallel, another battle. Unseen, unspoken. A wound that comes from far away, that erupts without being present. That places you between borders, words you can no longer say, and a silence that stretches like an ocean. The strangeness of being far away, of not belonging, of looking at the world as if it had no ground.
“Mujer cerrada por obras” is a dance of ruins and heartbeats.
It is a body trying to remember without collapsing.
It is a new form that still doesn’t recognize itself in the mirror.
It is struggle, but also the exhaustion of so much struggle.It is a crack — through which the air finds its way back in.
Here I am. Not repaired. But here.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Dana Raz
MANAGEMENT: Dana Raz Dance Projects
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT: Shani Cohen
PERFORMERS: Dana Raz, Yaddiel Espinosa and Yariel Espinosa
MUSIC: Juan J. Ochoa
LIGHTING: Víctor Vivar Ribaya
COSTUMES: Dana Raz & Luis Antonio Suárez
SET DESIGN: Luis Antonio Suárez
AUDIOVISUAL:
Video: Itzik Amar
Photography: Irma Collin
Texts and Voices: Dana Raz
TRANSLATION: Manu Badás
DURATION: 23 minutes
COMMUNICATIONS: Marta Pérez
