Melina Pena

"Mujeres, Diosas y Heroínas Migrántes...y En Transito"

runtime aprox. 11:50 min.

Transmitting from Portugal y Spain

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Performer/Dancer from Tijuana, México. Graduated in World Arts and Cultures (concentration in dance) from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since then she has been in an extensive search of her own body language training for a lot of years in Butoh, Experimental Dance, Body Landscape and now in Performance Art. She continuously collaborates with other artists an also works on her own solos, performing in Barcelona, where she lives now, and abroad.

¨I have been working with stereotypes of the border culture of
Tijuana (Mexican border with U.S.A.) using irony around the concept of the mix of cultures. My interest on sexuality, gender, race start in Tijuana and continue even stronger here in Barcelona. Having the opportunity to work with several immigrant artists of different countries, I find myself upon a new migrating reality that lives in Barcelona, Spain, Myself. My research in body language has immersed in an ironic cannibalization where something else is made from what is ours; where my observations and experiences of culture is not only mixed and overloaded, but it also turns grotesque and super beautiful. The role of women has been my central point in my work, dealing with issues such as prostitution, domestic and social violence and this permanent struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Language and dance are constantly interchanged with movement figures that are transformed continuously, where identity conflicts, taboos, and
different personalities are expressed from someone that is a product of two completely different cultures, as in my case¨.

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