Art and Catharsis Bloom at WOMB, an Intimate Space in Mexico City

Dance is for everyone, and that is what Erawa, a director and producer, defends as she challenges the classical canons of dance to include older women, people in wheelchairs and people who have not necessarily had a classical dance training.

"It seems to me that movement is a way to resist, to release, to be in community, to look each other in the eye and let go of all that becomes so hostile and so oppressive. For me, everyone has to move their body; I don't believe in that idea of having two left feet; the primal drum is the heart." With these words, the dancer invites us to think of dance as an inclusive practice and as a rebellion against the guidelines of an academy that forbids certain bodies and people from being on stage.

With this approach to art, Erawa presents Pollen: Coreografías mínimas, which will be performed this November 13 and 14 at the WOMB house, and the dancer shared a small preview of what audiences can enjoy this weekend:

"Following the death of my brother, I began with a need to find paths again to find him again. Flowers and medicinal plants were a bit of that path. I started to hear in the flowers listen, path, journey, witnesses of what was happening to me."

"What we are going to see is a journey through different stations where things will happen. There are sensory experiences, dance pieces, theater. Within all of this that we are going to see, I invited each of the women to work through a grief and choose the flower they wanted to work with."

Erawa extended a broad invitation to this staging and to visit the WOMB house, located in Mexico City, in the San Simón neighborhood. She also expressed her enthusiasm for making use of this space, so important for the dissemination of cultural activities in the heart of the country.