Marginalia 2006, conceived and directed by Maria Pendones in collaboration with visual artist Joaquin R del Paso, is a funky, poetic multimedia dance & video performance about a utopian playground where women rule. With humor, wittiness and raw poetry, the show challenges deeply rooted stereotypes about Latin American women, it uses different dance techniques such as ballet, jazz and contemporary dance that are combined with stricking video imagery. Dancers: Florencia Chavez, Vanesa de la O.

The show uses video projections and slides as an interactive presence. In other words, more than just being illustrative support for the choreography, video is used here as another “character”. Marginalia 2006 makes free use of different dance vocabularies: ballet, jazz, improvisation, modern etc thus adding more zest to its original, charismatic proposal.

Dark, funky, poetic and transgressive, Marginalia 2006 is a show where the condition of women in Latin America, a widely forgotten and exploited segment of the population is examined from myth to stereotype, from the everyday ordinary to the unusually extravagant. Nevertheless the show never lets up its sense of humor, thus dealing with rather heavy, complex issues in a very fresh, optimistic way. Marginalia 2006 is a zone of resistance where new rules are made.