Performance “A Daughter”
In Visual Arts Room of Centro GAM, Alameda 227. Metro Catholic University.
From 27 February to 7 March | Saturdays and Sundays, 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Price: “Pay what you can” system $3,000, $4,000, $5000 or $6,000.
With a limited capacity of 30 spectators Gam’s visual arts room will be the space in charge of hosting the performance Una Hija, intimate and reflective performative installation based on mother-daughter relationships. The work has functions scheduled from February 27 to March 7, Saturdays and Sundays at two times 17.30 and 19.30hrs.
The work simultaneously features 9 women in front of 9 tables and their 9 objectual installations that detonate the performers’ autobiographical accounts. The public is invited to travel through the scenic space, where light, soundscape and interaction make up the scenic experience.
Each actress, at her table, waits for a spectator, who will have the possibility to activate the autobiographical stories by choosing one of the objects that are on the installation table. Nine viewers who in their active role can sit in front of the actress and start a first-person dialogue. Others will be able to witness the story in the background.
The main viewer of the story rotates, so that everyone can experience the stories from different angles. In this interaction the piece offers a scenic experience of intimate encounters, as well as audiences, where the viewer is part of the work and is the one who creates his own tour.
The performance brings together stories and testimonies that reveal intimate and personal experiences of mother-daughter day, and does so in a look of styles and vocabulary where each performer compromises their own voice. The stories reveal beautiful and diverse experiences, ranging from the emotional to the traumatic and then humor, from compassion to anger, deep love and gratitude, pride and repentance, incomprehension and empathy.
“Women’s stories need to be told and heard,” says Jill Greenhalgh Welsh director responsible for Daughter, a performance in which A Daughter is inspired. Daughter has been set up in more than 21 countries around the world, often within the framework of the festivals and meetings linked to the Magdalena Project, International Network of Women in the Contemporary Theatre, of which Jill is director and founder.
This international women’s theatre network founded in 1986 has a presence in more than 50 countries. Chile joined this network in 2013 through the Mestiza Festival (mestizachile.org) and it is precisely in its 3rd version made in 2018 that Jill is invited to direct Daughter. 18 national and international artists were selected who worked concentrated behind closed doors, to present the closing day of the Festival, the result to the public.
Two years after Daughter’s premiere and in the absence of its director, the montage was renamed A Daughter, a work that aims to develop a sense of law in the personal and intimate of the artist-performer without the intention of gaining sympathy or validation in the audience. This causes the viewer to connect to their own biography in relation to their own mother or daughter.
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Address: Collective creation inspired by welsh director Jill Greenhalgh’s Daughter performance
External Eye: Antonieta Muñoz and Veronica Moraga
Cast: Enoe Coulon, Javiera Crisosto, Maria Olga Delos, Aracely Essus, Viviana Herrera, Luisa Iturriaga, Maria José Jaureguiberry, Valeria Salomé,
Scenic Design: Jill Greenhalgh
Production: Mestiza Chile.
Running time: 50 minutes.
Tickets: Pay as much as you can $3,000, 4,000, 5000 or 6,000
