This weekend, the performing company Corriendo Con Lobas (Running with Female Wolves) will present its play Bravas Muchachas (Fierce Girls) in Mérida before starting a national tour to Tijuana and Veracruz. The performances will take place on Saturday, September 21, and Sunday, September 22, with free admission and voluntary fee, at the Parque de las Américas.
Liliana HeSant, member of the company, highlighted the importance of these last performances in Yucatán before the tour: “These performances will be to bring us the Yucatecan energy and be strong and brave on our tour,” she noted.
The first stop will be at the Tijuana Theater Meeting, where they will present the production on September 25 at the CECUT Botanical Garden. Subsequently, the work will inaugurate the Emilio Carballido Festival in Córdoba, Veracruz, on October 9.
Bravas Muchachas is a work that, according to HeSant, has great social, cultural, and historical relevance, since it proposes a review of history from a feminist perspective:
“We manifest that women are and have always been active protagonists of the processes of change and political participation,” explained the actress.
At a time when Mexico will have its first elected woman president, the work takes on an even deeper meaning. Through the montage, the public will learn about the struggles and achievements of the first Yucatecan women to hold positions of popular representation in 1923, thirty years before women had the right to vote in the country.
Liliana HeSant also highlighted the importance of giving voice to historical female figures such as Raquel Dzib Cicero, Beatriz Peniche Barrera, and Rosa Torres González, who, despite having been the real pioneers of a feminist movement in Mexico one century ago, not only in Yucatan, but in all of Mexico, and of course have never been recognized as they truly deserve.
“We know that we have many male references in universal history, but few female names. Our production contributes to the dialogue about female participation in history and culture,” Liliana HeSant stated.
Running With Lobas seeks to get the public interested in getting to know not only these Yucatecan women but also others who have been a fundamental part of history in different states of the country.
The work has been well received by the public in each presentation, and the collective hopes to continue sharing it in different cities in Mexico.
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