Luisa Fernanda Alarcón Criales

Luisa Fernanda Alarcón Criales is a New York City-based physical actor, theater director, and anthropologist from Cali, Colombia. She is currently co-directing with Beatriz Monsalve the performance “El Tren” with Colectivo Mujeres del Bronx at the ID Studio, in which migration and violence have been the common ground for community building and collective creation. Luisa has performed at international festivals such as the Festival International du Théâtre Universitaire de Tanger, Morocco, and at the International Festival for Contemporary & Experimental Theater in Cairo, Egypt. She was also an artist in residence at Circulo Escénico in Cholula, México, where she developed her performance piece "Llanto a la Pirámide." At the Magdalena Project in Ayllón, Spain, she developed a performance to commemorate over 500 years of the Spanish colonization in the Americas together with Gabriela Acosta and María Luisa Bringas Campos. Luisa has also developed work with her other two theater companies Colectivo Acción Corrinche in Colombia and Exit 7 in Denmark. As an anthropologist, she has focused on the women's resistance to Colombian state oppression at the Women OnStage for Peace Festival in Bogotá, Colombia, which concluded with her award-winning thesis "Women Performing to Resist: Colombia's Endless War."

Title of Project

Relics to a new place

Description of Project

This is a reading with the poem “Colombian Cookbook” by Hernando Urriago Benitez.

Project Inspiration

Inspired by "preformance" as Fred has thought us.

Areas of Academic Interest

War; performance of power; women performing resistance