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Deborah Castillo
LAS OLVIDADAS/THE FORGOTTEN

first performed on December 3, 2017
Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY
performed once in 2017

VANESSA VARGAS / MARISABEL DÁVILA LOBO

New York, NY / Barcelona, Spain
vargas.vane@gmail.com
www.vanessavargasdancelab.com

LAS OLVIDADAS/THE FORGOTTEN
VANESSA VARGAS / MARISABEL DÁVILA LOBO

“Las Olvidadas/The Forgotten” is a performance/dance—a collaboration between Vanessa Vargas (choreography), Marisabel Dávila Lobo (performance), and Icli Zitella (sound design)—that stages the idea of oblivion in relation to space, time, perception, and territoriality. In this piece, we use the body as a migratory tool, a surface, a territory, but also a place to be forgotten. Overlapping video projections determine the path of our bodies and of the audience. “Las Olvidadas/The Forgotten” explores the notions of rootlessness, exile, and oblivion as an embodiment of invisibility, which we present not only as an internal journey, but also as a social and political phenomenon crossing boundaries between body and social practices.