The Physical Rootlessness Series

(first works)

  • Carnem Exilui

  • CASA

  • Fabián, Apuntes 1969

  • Lost In Parameterization

  • Pulling Scales

Surreal Majismo

  • MAJOS

As its name suggests, this series explores a constantly broken and disjointed physicality. From this disruption and lack of technical foundation, the body dissects its own archive of physical memories to reconnect knowledge and wisdom with a diversity of dance genres and physical expressions. In this series, the body also fully immerses itself in the realm of emotions and explores what it feels as it navigates through each of them to fill that physical uprooting or nothingness.

Years after immigrating to Europe, I missed out on many important things along my own path, others felt alienated, and I needed to learn many new other. In this migratory process of learning and unlearning, the body enters a kind of "fight mode." In this mode, it rejects vulnerability in order to be and feel strong during its challenging evolutionary journey. Obviously, this strategy doesn't work. Sooner or later, the body disintegrates, culminating in total emotional chaos caused by uprooting. Within this chaos characterised by uprooting, something majestic happens: discovering, hopefully, a new and fresh version of oneself or simply the root of the disasters.

This series is composed of narrative and non-narrative works that intersect reality and fiction to examine and expose disoriented bodies in dystopian sociopolitical contexts. It critiques patriarchal systems, imposed respect, and distorted communist ideals. Drawing on Cuba's rich cultural history, I explore identity, repression, and migration through surrealism and romanticism, in essence, and in spaces where individualism and collectiveness merge to evoke raw emotions and diverse interpretations.

The works under the concept of Surreal Majismo are deeply influenced by the dynamics of the Physical Rootlessness series, however, every unique piece in it, has the universe of the Majos and the deconstruction of the Escuela Bolera in dialogue with other dances and expressions as a main point of departure.